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valvate. Petals 3-5, Imbricate. Disk veryjsmall. Stamens 3-5, inserted 

 within the disk, all fertile. Ovary sessile; style short, terminal, stigma 

 obscurely unequally 3-lobed ; ovule ascending from the wall of the cavity. 

 Drupe fleshy ; stone thin, fibrous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed suberect ; coty- 

 ledons fleshy ; radicle very short, inferior. DISTRIB. Species 5, natives of 

 Tropical Asia and the Malay Archipelago. 



1. B. burmanica, Griff. Plant. Cantor 14; leaves 5-7 in. elliptic- 

 lanceolate obtusely acuminate, nerves 12-15 pairs, panicles obscurely puberulous 

 lax-flowered, flowers 4-5-merous. B. oppositifolia, Meissn. in Walp. Rep. i. 

 556. B. Brandisiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1871, ii. 50 ; 1873, ii. 66. 

 Mangifera oppositifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 640 ; Hart. Bengh. 18 ; Wall Cat. 

 8490. Cambessedea, Wt. $ A. Prodr. i. 170. 



PEGU, TENASSERIM and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS. DISTRIB. Java. 



Leaves very coriaceous, pale ; nerves above stink, very slender, beneath raised with 

 a slender incised line along the ridge. Panicles much shorter than the leaves, 

 slender, spreading, lax, few-flowered. Flowers about | in. diam., yellow, pedicelled, 

 quite glabrous. Sepals rounded. Petals oblong, keeled on the face. Stamens 

 usually 4. Ovary obliquely ovoid. Drupe 1-2 in., broadly ovoid, compressed, 

 yellow, eatable. ' Mariam ' or ' Mai-een ' of the Burmese. Kurz states that the 

 .stamens are usually 8, perhaps a misprint for 3. 



B. microphylla, Griff. Plant. Cantor 15 ; Notul. iv. 423 ; leaves 

 in. elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, panicles dense- 

 flowered obscurely puberulous, flowers 4-merous. B. diversifolia, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Suppl. i. 522. ?B. myrsineides, Blume Mus. Bat. t. i. 204; Miguel 

 1. c. i. pt. 2, 635. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Very similar to B. burmanica, but much smaller in all its parts and usually 

 triandrous. ' Roomaniya Paigo ' of the Burmese. 



3. B. macrop&ylla, Griff. Plant. Cantor 15 ; Notul. iv. 420, t. 567, 

 f. 4 ; leaves 6-10 in. oblong-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, panicle 

 much branched dense-flowered very pubescent, flowers usually 3-merous. ? B. 

 gandaria, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 204, in note ; Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 635. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



A much larger plant than B. oppositifolia, with more oblong glossy leaves, the 

 nerves 12-2'0 pairs sunk on the upper surface, raised on the lower but not grooved on 

 the ridge. Panicle 2-3 in. long ; branches stout, spreading horizontally and bearing 

 densely crowded cymes of flowers about ^ in. diam. Sepals 3 in the 9 (Griffith). 

 Stamens 3-5. Drupe ovoid oblong, a little oblique, as large as a hen's egg; pulp 

 .yellowish, acid, not terebinthine ; stone leathery, fibrous, adherent to the testa. 

 Cotyledons lilac, equal, reticulate, rugose (Griffith). 'Eoomaniya Baitool' of the 

 Malays. 



5. GLUT A, Linn. 



Trees with caustic juice. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branchlets, 

 short-petioled, simple, oblong, coriaceous. Panicles axillary and terminal. 

 Flowers small, hermaphrodite. Calyx spathaceous, bursting irregularly, 

 caducous. Petals 4-6, adnate to the disk, imbricate. Disk elongate, rarely 

 short. Stamens 4-6, inserted on the disk, filaments capillary. Ovary sessile 

 on the disk or stipitate, oblique, 1-celled ; style lateral, filiform, stigma simple ; 

 -ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. Berry stalked, dry, deformed, 

 tubercled or ridged. Seed with the testa adherent to the pericarp and full of 

 black juice ; cotyledons large, connate, fleshy ; radicle short, obtuse, incurved. 

 DISTRIB. About 8 species, all Malayan. 



