TEREBINTHAOEM. 323 



fuuicle.i Fruit drupaceous ; mesocarp thin, finally subdry ; puta- 

 men osseous or chartaceous ; testa of compressed seeds suspended from 

 much compressed fiinicle, thin ; cotyledons of exalbuminous some- 

 times unequally gibbous embryo'" thick, plano-convex ; radicle suj^erior 

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

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

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

 pound cymiferous axillary racemes bracteate. [Medit. Mcff, Temp, 

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



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

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

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

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

 2 or often longer than the others) free 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 subreniforni ; 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 exalbuminous embryo ' large 

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

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

 terminal much ramified compouud-cymiferous racemes ; pedicels 

 articulate. {Tropical Asia.^°) 



' Makch. Anacard. t. 1, fig. 18-27. ' Seeds sometimes polembryonio (REiN-n-. in 



- Often green. Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xii. 341. t. .36). 



3 Spec. 6, 7. H. B. K. Nov. Qen. et Spec, vii » Plumule sometimes more or less plainly 



t. 608. — Webb. P/iyt. canar. t. 66. — Gren. et ramified in germination. 



GoDR. Fl. (le Fi: i. 339. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, ' Often pale yellowish, 1 M. indica, purple- 



xi. ISl.— Walp. iîf/). i. 549; ^'iM. ii. 280 ; iii. striped. ■* 



843 ; iv. 146; \-ii. 643. lo Spec, about 12, of which 1 is cultivated 



■• Geii. n. 278.— J. Gen. 369.— G.ertn. Fruct. between the tropics. Eueed. Sort. Malah. iv. 



ii. 96, t. 100.— Lamk. III. t. 138.— Deskouss. t. 1, 2 {Man). — jAca. Ic. Sar. t. 337.— Tuis. 



Diet. iii. 696 ; Suppl. iii. 583.— K. in Ann. Sc. Fl. A t. ii. t. 15.— Tuep. in Diet. So. Nat. Atl. 



iVa<. sér. 1, ii. 335.— DC. P™*-. ii. 63.— Spach. t. 262.— Eumph. Serb. Amboin. i. 93, 25.— 



Suit à Siifon, ii. 192. — Endl. Gen. n. 5915. — Wic.ht et Akn. Prodr. i. 169. — Hook. f. in 



Payer Onjanog. 91, t. 20.— B. H. Qen. 420, n. Tram. Linn.Soc. xxiii. t. 23.— MiQ. Fl.-Ind. Bat. 



J.— March. Anacard. 104, 190. i. p ii. 627; Suppl. i. 521.— Kl. in Pet. Moss. 



* Carpels sometimes (in cultivated spec.) 3-5, Jjot. 90. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. 69. — Gbiseb. Fl. 



free, of which 3, 4, are sterile and smaller. Brit. W.-Ind. 176.— Tr. et Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 



'^ Usually large, yellowish, greenish, purplish sér. 6, xiv. 287. — Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 442. — 



or violet. Kunz, in Flora (1870), 345.— March, in Via. 



