Spondias.'] XLYI. ANACARDIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 43 



lulate, 3-4 in., pale beneath, not abruptly acuminate as in S.", mangifera and 

 acuminata ; nerves free, arching. Flowers solitary or subsolitary on the branches, 

 long pedicelled, in. diam., white. Calyx lobes acute. Petals elliptic, subacuto. 

 Filaments short, subulate. Disk annular, 10-lobed. Ovary 5-celled with 5 short 

 erect styles. Drupe 1| in. Ibng, rounded at the top, yellow. Stone 5-celled, quite 

 small. I know this plant only through Koxburgh's description and excellent drawing, 

 which represents a true Spondias in the structure of flower, fruit and embryo ; but 

 the arched-nerved leaves which he describes as ' gash-serrate' but figures as obtusely 

 serrate), and the subsolitary flowers on the branches with peduncles f in. long, are 

 quite, unlike any Spondias I know. 



4. S. ? macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 8480 ; leaflets 3-4-pair 6-9 in. elliptic 

 acuminate. 



BIRMA, at Taong-dong, Wattich. 



This, of which there are only mutilated leaves and fragments of a panicle without 

 flower or fruit, in "Wallich's Herbarium, may be only S. mangifera. 



21. DRACONTORXEZiUBX, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, quite en- 

 tire. Panicles axillary and subterminal. Floivers small, pale, hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx 5-partite, segments conniving, imbricate. Petals 5, suberect, subvalvate. 

 Disk cup-shaped, crenulate. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the disk. Ovary 

 sessile, 5-celled ; styles 5, thick, erect (like ovaries), connate by their obtuse, stig- 

 rnatiferous tips ; ovules solitary and pendulous in the cells. Drupe ffiobose T 

 fleshy, tubercled above the middle by the style-bases ; stone hard, depressed, 2-5- 

 celled ; cells diverging, opening by canals through the top of the stone. Seeds 

 compressed, pendulous, testa membranous ; cotyledons plano-convex, radicle 

 short superior centrifugal. DISTKIB. 5 species natives of tropicakAsia and the 

 Pacific. 



1. 3>. mangiferum, Blume Mus. Sot. i. 231, t. 42 ; leaflets 5-8 pairs 

 opposite and alternate oblong-lanceolate acuminate, panicle much branched pu- 

 bescent or tomentose. Poupartia mangifera, Blume Bijd. 1160 (excl. synon.). 

 P. pinnata Blanco Flor. Filipp. 393. 



EASTERN PENINSULA, South Andaman Islands, Kurz ; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay, 

 Penang, Maingay. DISTRIB. Eastward to the Philippines and Fiji Islands, native 

 and cultivated. 



A large tree. Leaves 1-1^ ft. ; petiole cylindric, glabrous or pubescent ; leaflets 

 petiolulate, 5-7 by l-2 in., usually rather falcate and oblique at the rounded or cor- 

 date base, gradually narrowed to the subacute apex, glabrous above, beneath glabrous 

 puberulous or with tufts of hair in the nerve axils; nerves 1012 pair, arched, reticu- 

 lations close small ; petiolule i in. Panicle equalling or exceeding the leaves, pubes- 

 cent or tomentose ; pedicels slender, ebracteate. Flowers campanulate, 55 in. diam., 

 greenish white. Sepals pubescent or tomentose. Petals longer, recurved. Fila- 

 ments slender. Drupe 1 in. diam., depressed. A variable plant in pubescence, of 

 which I think D. sylvestre, Blume, and D. pulerulum, Miq. are varieties. 



VAR. 1. Leaflets nearly glabrous beneath with occasional tufts of hair in the 

 nerve axils. Andaman and Malacca. 



VAR. 2. Leaflets and petiole pubescent beneath. Malacca. 



VAR. 3. Leaflets glabrous beneath, panicles and flowers rusty-tomentose. 

 Penang. 



