AM PENTANDRIA MONOGYNja^ Mangifera* 



Additional species by N. W. 



4. M. quadrifida, Mss. Jack. 



u Leaves lanceolate with attenuate base. Panicles loose, axillary. 

 Flowers quadrifid, monandrous. Petals glandular at the middle. 



Malay. Assam Kunibong. * 



Sumatra and other islands of the eastern Archipelago. 



A loftier tree than the common Mango, with a straighter trunk, 

 and more compact foliage. Leaves alternate, long-petioled, lanceo- 

 late, acute, attenuated to the base, very entire, smooth, coriaceous 

 and flat. Fetioh roundish, somewhat thickened at the base. Sti~ 

 pules none. F ankles lax, open and spreading, axillary, crowded at 

 ihe summits of the branches. From two to four panicles generally 

 come out just below the thick termination of the branch, each 

 supported by a leaf. Sometimes there are other panicles beiow 

 these from the axils of the lower leaves. Flowers small and white; 

 .Bracts small, deciduous. Calyx four-leaved, somewhat reflex. 

 Corolla white, four-petailed, spreading, after flowering conniving, 

 petals ovate-lanceolate, acute, furnished in the middle with an irre- 

 gular, yellow, glandular rest. Sectary of four, round, fleshy lobes 

 united into a cup-like receptacle, on which the germen is situated. 

 Stamina inserted on the lobes of the neetarium, not within them 

 as in the M. Iiidica. One fertile, as long as the corolla, sterile filar 

 ments very short. Germen oblique. Style declinate, as long as the 

 stamen. Fruit roundish, becoming very dark-coloured, containing 

 an ovate rent. 



There are generally some male flowers in the panicle, and rarely 

 a flower occurs with a small superfluous fifth petal placed within the 

 resU — W. Jack. 



5. M. foetida, Imtreir. 



Leaves firm, broad-'anceoJate. Panicles terminal, ascending, 

 lengthened, smooth. Flowers sub-monandrous. Corols infundi- 

 buliform ; limb spreading, at length reflexed. — Mss. Jack. 



