Mangife ra,] A NA CARDIA CEAE. 259 



2. BUCHANANIA BARBER!, Gamble iii Kew Bull. 1916, 135. 



Travancore, at Nadarai (Barber). 



3. BUCHANANIA LANCEOLATA, Wt. Ic. t. 237; F. B. I. ii. 24. 



W. Ghats, evergreen forests of Travancore, up to 2.000 ft. 

 A medium-sized tree. The kernels of the seeds are edible. 

 Vern. Mai. Mala mavu. 



4. BUCHANANIA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Boxb. ; Cor. PI. iii. t. 262; 

 F. B. I. ii. 23; W. & A. 169; Wt, Ic. t. 101. B. intermedia, 

 Wt. Ic. t. 81. 



Deccan and Carnatic. in dry forests from Hyderabad 

 southwards to Travancore. 



A medium-sized tree with rough deeply fissured bark and 

 greyish-brown moderately hard wood of no value. The 

 kernels of the seeds, the best of the three species, are 

 largely collected and eaten. Yern. Tel. Morli sara, Pedda 

 morali ; Tin. Miidamah. Kola mavu the seeds "Sara 

 pappu." 



2. Mangifera, Linn. 



Trees. Leave* alternate, petioled. coriaceous, simple, entire; 

 stipules 0. Flower* small, polygamous, in terminal panicles ; 

 pedicels jointed ; bracts deciduous. Cnlyx 4-5-partite ; segments 

 imbricate, deciduous. Petal* 4-5. free or adnate to the disk, 

 imbricate, furnished on the inside with a lobed glandular scale 

 or crest. Ditk fleshy. 4-5-lobed. Stamens 1-5, inserted inside 

 or on the disk, 1 sometimes 2 fertile, the others sterile, slender, 

 tipped with a small gland. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, oblique; style 

 lateral; stigma simple; ovule pendulous from a basal or lateral 

 funicle. Fruit a large fleshy resinous drupe with a compressed 

 fibrous stone. Seed large, ovoid-oblong, compressed ; testa thin, 

 papery ; albumen ; cotyledons plano-convex, often unequal and 

 lobed ; radicle slightly curved upwards. 



MANGIFEEA INDICA, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 13; W, & A. 170; 

 Bedd. Fl. t. 162. 



Hill forests of the E. Ghats, Deccaii and W. Ghats, in 

 ravines up to 4,000 ft.; universally cultivated in gardens, 

 avenues, and " topes," and run wild. The Mango. 

 A large spreading evergreen tree reaching 50 ft. in height, 

 the oblong-lanceolate shining leaves crowded at the ends 



