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ovate-lanceolate. Petals 5 ? narrowly linear-oblong, erect below but 

 sharply reflexed about the middle, with 1 to 8 vertical ridges. 

 Stamens 5, one much longer than the others whose anthers are imper- 

 fect (Hooker) ; filaments very slender, shorter than the lateral capillary 

 style. (" Drwpe obliquely broadly oblong-globose : the flesh yellow, acid 

 and terebinthine : stone thin, fibrous, the testa coriaceous." Maingay.) 

 Malncca : Maingay, No. 473. 



Concerning the species, Sir Joseph Hooker remarks in a note (Z. c. 

 18) as follows: — This in foliage approaches very closely Blume's 

 M. macrocarpa of Java, which has still narrower leaves with crimped 

 edges, 40 pairs of nerves, and a bitter-sweet fruit as large as a child's 

 head. Dr. Engler believes that this is M. macrocarpa Blume and (Mon. 

 Phan. IV, 211) reduces it to that species. The very long narrow crisped- 

 edged leaves and large fruit distinguish it. 



\Q. Mangifera lagenifeka. Griff. Notul. IV, 414, t. 567, fig. 3. 

 A tree 50 to 80 feet high ; the young branches stout, pale when dry. 

 Leaves very coriaceous, oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or 

 rounded, gradually narrowed below the middle to the stout petiole ; both 

 surfaces dull when dry, not reticulate, the 16 to 20 pairs of straight 

 spreading main nerves very faint ; length 3 to 6 in., breadth 1 to 175 

 in. ; petiole "5 to '9 in., flattened. Panicle puberulous, (purple in colour 

 when fresh) much exceeding the leaves, on a stout peduncle; the 

 branches lax, nscending, and bearing pedunculate cymose branchlets. 

 Floivers *35 in. in dinm., on pedicels shorter than themselves ; bracteole 

 large, broad, hooded. Sepals 5, (often 6) spreading, broadly ovate, 

 pubescent outside. Petals 5, (often 6) two or three times as long 

 as the sepals, erect, oblanceolate or sub-spathulate, obtuse, puberulous 

 outside, slightly concave and thickened in the middle, purple. Stamens 

 5 or 6, all perfect, nearly as long as the petals ; anthers ovate, short ; 

 filaments long, slender. Disc slender, cylindric. Ovary obliquely 

 obovoid, glabrous ; the style as long as the stamens, sub-terminal. 

 (Drupe pyriforra, pale green with a pink blush; pulp Wvid or o^ a 

 purplish flesh-colour : stone fibro-coriaceous, adherent to the membra- 

 nous texta ; radicle basal, very large," Maingay) length 45 in., breadth 



2*5 in. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 1104; Maingay, No 469. 



The description of the fruit above given was taken by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker from Maingay's notes, and has been by me copied from the 

 Flora of British India. Concerning the fruit Sir Joseph has the follow- 

 ing note on Griffith's account of it which I quote verbatim from Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II, 18. " Called Lanjoot by the Malays, according to Maingay 

 and Griffith. The latter describes the drupe as smooth, glaucescent. 



