1896.] O. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 475 



coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to broadly-elliptic, sometimes slightly obovato, 

 obtuse or sub-acute, the base slightly cuneate, both surfaces pale when 

 dry and with the reticulations indistinct or obsolete : main nerves 16 

 to 18 pairs, bold, sub-horizontal ; length 8 to 12 in., breadth 8'5 to G in. ; 

 petiole "75 to 2-25 in,, stout especially in its lower half. Panicles 

 terminal or axillary, pedunculate, as long as or longer than the leaves, 

 puberulous or glab;?ous, blood-red when fresh, black when dry ; the 

 branches stout, sub-erect and bearing scattered cymose branchlets, 

 bracteoles minute. Flowers '35 in. in diam., pinkish ; pedicels very short, 

 minutely bracteolate at the base. Sepals 5, thick, ovate-lanceolate, 

 sub-acute, glabrous. Petals 5, linear-oblong, acute, twice as long as the 

 sepals, reflexed from about the middle, with an elongated 2- or 3-fid 

 thickening near the base and a short filiform basal claw. Stamens 5, 

 but only 1 perfect and nearly as long as the petals, the others shorter, 

 unequal and imperfect. Disc cylindric. Ovary sub-ovoid, glabrous ; 

 style slender, lateral. Drupe elliptic to globose, varying in form, 

 oblique, green, 3 or 4 in. long. Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, IT, 44-0 ; 

 Griff. Notul. IV, 419 ; DC. Prod. II, 63 ; Blame Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 

 I, 198 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 2, 632 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 19 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 305 ; Engler in DC. Mon. Plian. IV, 

 212. M. Horsfieldi, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol I, pt. 2, 632. 



Malacca, Penang, Singapore, and probably in all the other Pro- 

 vinces except the Andaraans and Nicobars. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra. 



I extract the following note from Sir Joseph Hooker's Flora of 

 British India. " Drupe variable in form, not compressed, oblique, green, 

 smooth, very fetid ; flesh yellow, thick ; stone almost 2-edged, charta- 

 ceous, fibrous ; cotyledons equal, auricled at the base ; radicle short. 

 {Gri^th.) — Mainga^ describes the fruit as coarse-flavoured, and not 

 unlike Lanjoot {M. lagenifera), stringy. Malay name Bachang or 

 Bachong. Rumph and Loureiro describe the drupe as hairy, but no 

 one else does so ; possibly the fibres of the stone are alluded to by these 

 authors." 



15. Mangifera fragrans, Maingay MSS. ex Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 18. A tree everywhere glabrous ; young branches thick, black when 

 dry. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, acuminate or rounded at the apex, the edges undulate, the base 

 acute, abruptly contracted into the very slender petiole, both surfaces 

 conspicuously reticulate ; main nerves 25 to 35 pairs, slender, almost 

 horizontal ; length 6 to 10 in., breadth 1*25 to 15 in. ; petiole 1 to 2 in. 

 Panicle longer than the leaves, on a long peduncle, spreading; its 

 branches thick, glabrous, black when dry. Floivers nearly -3 in. long, 

 erect, their pedicels thickened at their apices. Sepals 5 ? unequal. 



