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funicle.i Fruit drupaceous ; mesocarp thin, fiually subdry ; puta- 

 men osseous or cliartaceous ; testa of compressed seeds suspended from 

 much compressed funicle, thin ; cotyledons of cxalbumiuous some- 

 times unequally gibbous embryo" thick, plano-convex ; radicle superior 

 accumbent. — Trees or small trees ; odour terebinthaceous ; leaves 

 alternate imparl- or paripinnate, sometimes 3-foliolate, exstipulate, 

 deciduous or perennial ; flowers in subsimple or more or less com- 

 pound eymiferous axillary racemes bracteate. [3Icdit. Reg, Temp. 

 Ins. Asia, East. Afiica, Cent. America.^) 



32. Mangifera L.^ — Flowers polygamous-dioecious ; sepals 4, 5, 

 imbricated deciduous. Petals 4, 5, alternate, at the middle incrassate 

 within, below imbricated. Stamens 4, 5, alternipetalous, inserted 

 below thickly pulviuiform or stipitiform disk ; filaments (of which 1, 

 2 or often longer than the others) fi'ee or united at base, and some 

 times connate with disk ; anthers (effete in female flower) introrse, 

 2-rimose. Germen free sessile, 1 locular ; ° style lateral simple, 

 not dilated stigmatiferous at apex. Ovule suspended from summit 

 of short subbasilar funicle more or less high adnate to wall ; micro- 

 pyle introrse superior. Drupe ^ ovoid or subreniform ; mesocarp 

 sometimes very fleshy ; putamen thick, outwardly fibrous or sub- 

 lanate, 2-valved or evalvate ; testa of compressed seeds chartaceous 

 or pergamentaceous ; cotyledons of thick cxalbumiuous embryo ' large 

 fleshy plano-convex, sometimes lobed ; radicle inferior ascendent ^. — 

 Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate simple entire coriaceous ; flowers ^ in 

 terminal much ramified compound-cymiferous racemes ; pedicels 

 articulate. {Trojncal Asia}°) 



' March. Anacard. t. 1, fig. 18-27. ' Seeds sometimes polemlii-yonio (Eeinw. in 



- Often green. Nov. Act. Nut. Cm: xii. 341. t. .36). 



^ Spec. 6, 7. H. B. K. Nov. Qen. et Spec, vii ^ plumule sometimes more or less plainly 



t. 608. — 'SVEms. P/iijt. canai: t. 66. — Gken. et ramified in germination. 



GoDU. Fl. (le Fr. i. 339. — U. B.\. in Adansonia, ' Often pale yellowish, 1 M. indiea, purplo- 



xi. ISl.— Walp. lie}}, i. 5-40 ; Aim. ii. 280 ; iii. striped. 



843; iv. 140; vii. 643. 'o Spec, about 12, of which 1 is cultivated 



* Geii. n. 278.— ,T. Gm. 369. — G^TiRTN. Finct. between the tropics. Rueed. Hort. Maliih. iv. 

 ii. 90, t. 100.— Lamk. III. t. 138.— De-srouss. t. 1, 2 {Man). — Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 337.— Tuss. 

 Bid. iii. 096 ; Suppl. iii. 583.— K. in Ann. Sc. Fl. A I. ii. t. 15.— Turp. in Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. 

 iVn<. ser. 1, ii. 335.— DC. P;w/c. ii. 63.— Spach. t. 262.— Rumph. Heili. Amhoin. i. 9.3, 25.— 

 Suit a Biiffoii, ii. 192.— Endi,. 0en. n. 591.5.- Wk.ut ct Arw. Prodr. i. 169.— Hook. f. in 

 Payer Onjmocj. 91, t. 20.— B. 11. Gen. 420, n. Trans. JAnn.Soc. xxiii. t. 23.— MiQ. Fl.-Ind. Bat. 

 J.— March. Anamrd. 104, 190. i. p ii. 627 ; Suppl. i. 521.— Kl. in Fct. Muss. 



* Carpels sometimes (in cultivated spec.) 3-5, Jint. 90.— Bentii. Fl. Honyk. 69. — Geiseii. Fl. 

 free, of which 3, 4, arc .sterile and smaller. Brit. W.-Iiid. 170.— Tii. et Pl. in Aim. Sc. Nat. 



^ Usually large, yellowish, greenish, purplish ser. 6, xiv. 287. — Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 44\ — 

 or violet. Kuuz, in Flora (1870), 345.— March, in Vid. 



