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3-5-toothed or -lobed, persistent, imbricate. Petals 4-5, oblong, recurved 

 imbricate. Disk orbicular, 5-lobed. Stamens 8-10, free, inserted at the base> 

 of the disk. Carpels 5-6, free, seated in the cavity of the disk, one fertile, the 

 rest imperfect ; style short, stigma truncate ; ovule 1, pendulous from a basal 

 funicle. Drupe small, flesh scanty ; stone crustaceous or bony, 2-valved. Seed 

 gibbous, acute at one end; cotyledons thick; radicle superior. DISTKIB. A 

 tropical Asiatic, Australian and Pacific Island genus ; species about 20. 



1. B. latifolia, JRoxb. FL 2nd. ii. 385; leaves usually broadly 

 oblong rounded at the tip closely reticulate on both surfaces villoua 

 pubescent or glabrate beneath, panicle woolly or velvety, flowers crowded. 

 Wt. Sf Arn. Prodr. i. 169 ; Wall Cat. 983 ; Bedd. FL Syl 1. 165 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 52 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 41 ; Brandts For. Flor. 127. Spondias 

 elliptica, Rottl. 



Hot, drier parts of INDIA, from KUMAON ascending to 1500 ft., and OTIDH, 

 through CENTBAL INDIA and to the WESTERN PENINSULA, BIEMA and TENASSEBIM. 



A tree 40-50 ft., subdeciduous ; branehlets as thick as the finger. Leaves 6-10 

 in., i ery coriaceous or hard, nerves 15-20 pairs, stout, nearly straight ; petiole 5-5 in., 

 stout, pubescent. Panicles terminal and axillary, shorter than the leaves, pyramidal, 

 branches stout ; bracts small, caducous. Flowers \ in. diam., sessile, greenish white. 

 Calyx 5-toothed. Petals oblong. Disk fleshy. Stamens 10, spreading, as long as the 

 petals. Ovaries one perfect, conical, pubescent, 4 others reduced to filaments. Drupe 

 | in., subglobose, slightly compressed, black ; stone hard, 2-valved. There is a 

 specimen marked from Malacca in Griffith's Herbarium. 



2. B. angustifolia, -Roxb. FL 2nd. ii. 386 ; Cor. PL iii. t. 262 ; leaves 

 linear-oblong or elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or rounded at the tip 

 base not narrowed into the petiole glabrous on both surfaces, nerves very 

 slender, panicles quite glabrous, flowers sessile. Wall. Cat. 982; W. fy A. 

 Prodr. 169 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 41 ; Wight Ic. t. 101. Spondias simplici- 

 folia, Rottl. Mangifera axillaris, Laink. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; the Concan, from the Adjunta Jungles, Graham, south- 

 wards. CEYLON, in the northern parts of the island. 



A tree, perfectly glabrous throughout, branehlets stout. Leases 4-6 by l|-2 in., 

 thinly coriaceous, shining above, delicately reticulate beneath, rounded or acute 

 at the base; nerves 12-15 pairs, very slender; petiole |-1| in., slender. Panicles 

 axillary and terminal, about as long as the leaves, peduncle and branches slender, 

 spreading. Flowers in small clusters ~| in. diam., quite glabrous, nearly sessile. 

 Drupe i in. diam., obliquely spherical. The Malayan and Australian forms referred 

 to this appear to me to differ much in the leaf-base, narrowed into the shorter stouter 

 peduncle, and other points. 



3. B. glabra, Wall. Cat. 984 ; leaves broadly elliptic or oblong or almost 

 orbicular obtuse or rounded at the tip quite glabrous, base rounded, nerves 

 strong, panicle spreading puberulous, flowers sessile. 



TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Wallich. 



A tree. Leaves 4-6 by 2-3 in., usually quite elliptic and rounded at both ends, 

 sometimes more acute at the base, very coriaceous, upper surface raised between the 

 nerves, faintly reticulate, lower strongly reticulate shining; nerves 12-15 pairs; 

 petiole always short, \ in. Panicle shorter than the leaves, rusty puberulous, glabrate 

 in fruit ; branches spreading, rather stout. Flowers ^ in. diam., rather crowded, very 

 shortly pedicelled. Fruit. unripe, glabrous. Wallich's are the only specimens of this 

 that I have seen ; it is nearest B. augustifolia, but differs materially in the broad 

 almost rounded loaves, very short petiole, and puberulous panicle. 



4. B. lucida, Blume Mm. Bot. i. 184; quite glabrous throughou 



