Nanyifera* pentandria monogynia. 439 



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Ltdtshmee am, the vernacular name in S/lhet; on the mountains ad- 

 joining to that district it grows to be a tall tree of great size. Flow- 

 ering time October; the fruit ripens in February and March, and is 

 eaten by the natives, though by no means so palatable as even a bad 

 domestic mango, they also dry them and keep them for medicinal pur- 

 poses. 



Leaves as in the common cultivated sorts, alternate, petioled, lan- 

 ceolar, entire and smooth ; from six to eight inches long, by one 

 and half or two broad. — "Panicles terminal, much larger than in the 

 domestic sorts, and with the numerous ramifications more erect and 

 slender. — Flowers very numerous, small, white, with a faint shade 

 of pink; they are more completely monandrous than any of the cul- 

 tivated sorts. — Calyx five-leaved, many times shorter than the corols. 

 *— Petals five, linear, spreading, and finally becoming somewhat twisty 

 ed and revolute — Nectary a short, solid, turbinate, slightly groov- 

 ed, villous receptacle for the germ to rest on. In the domestic sorts 

 it is composed of five distinct glands, which embrace the base of the 

 germ. — Filament single, inserted into the pot of the nectary, incurv- 

 ed, length of the pistillum. Anther oval. Germ elevated on the 

 above-mentioned nectary or receptacle, unequally oval, smooth, 

 one-celled \ovulum single, attached to that side of the cell from whence 

 the style rises, and most remote from the stamina. Style subulate, 

 length of the filament, incurved, after fecundation recurved. Stigma 

 simple, acute. — Drupe ovate, obliquely acuminate, smooth, when 

 ripe yellow, like the common mango and nearly as large, one-celled. 

 Nut oblong, less fibrous than in the common sorts, and also less firm, 

 with an even surface. — Seeds solitary, conform to the nut. Integu- 

 ment single. — Perisperm none. — Embryo between erect and trans- 

 verse. Cotyledons equal, conform to the seed. Radicle lodged be- 

 tween the cotyledons on one side of their base, pointing out, and ra- 

 ther upward. 



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