478 G. K^ing— ^Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penmsiila. [No. 3, 



18. Mangifera caesia, Jack in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, II, 441. A 

 large tiee ; young branches Btont, rather rongli from the cicatrices of 

 fallen leaves. Leaves thickly coriaceon.'?, broadly lanceolate or elliptic- 

 oblong, shortly and bluntly acnminate, narrowed from about the middle 

 to the short broad petiole ; main nerves 20 to 25 pairs, thin, spreading, 

 curving, the midrib stout and the reticulations obscure on both surfaces ; 

 length 6 to 12 in., breadth 2 to 3"5 ; petiole '35 to "5 in. long. Pani- 

 cle large, erect, terminal, longer than tlie leaves, on a stout pedun- 

 cle, minutely tawny-tomentose and of a glaucous reddisb-colour : its 

 branches numerous, spreading, dividing and bearing the flowers near 

 their extremities in densely crowded cymules. Flowers '3 in. long, on 

 stout pedicels shorter than themselves with a broad elliptic bracteole 

 at the base of each. Sepals 5, lanceolate, sub-acute, erect, pubescent. 

 Petals 5, twice as long as the sepals, adnate to the disc, linear, erect, 

 glabrous, with one central ridge, concave. Stamen 1, shorter than the 

 petals, the anther short, staminodes very minute. Disc small, sub- 

 5-lobed. Ovary obliquely ovoid ; style sub-terminal. Prupe obovate- 

 oblong, reddish-white. Griff. Notul. IV, 415 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 19 ; Engler Mon. Phan. Y, 213. 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1100 ; Maingay, No. 465. 



19. Mangifera superba. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 19. A very large 

 tree : the young branches three-quarters of an inch thick. Leaves large, 

 very coriaceous, cuneate-oblanceolate, snb-acute, the margins slightly 

 undulate, gradually narrowed from the upper third to the short flattened 

 stout petiole ; both surfaces hard and quite glabrous, not reticulate ; the 

 midrib very stout, flattened on the upper but prominent on the lower sur- 

 face ; main nerves 30 to 35 pairs, spreading, not very prominent : length 

 10 to 16 in., breadth 3 to 5 ; petiole very stout, from "5 to 1 in. long. 

 Panicle terminal, much longer than the leaves, tawny-pubescent, on a 

 very stout peduncle Avith many woody lanceolate bracts at its base ; 

 its primary branches few, sub-erect, with short branchlets crowded near 

 the apex, the flowers densely crowded near the apices of the branchlets ; 

 bracts numerous, large, broadly lanceolate, concave, pubescent. Flowers 

 •75 ill. long, lilac, their pedicels very short. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, 

 pubescent, concave, '35 in. long. Petals 5, twice as long as the sepals, 

 adnate to the cylindric disc, lanceolate, acuminate, recurved, veined, with 

 a thickened central ridge on the lower half. Stamen 1, bearing a perfect 

 anther, the others w^ith imperfect small anthers, the filaments of all 

 subequal. Ovary obliquely ovoid, tapering into a slender sub-terminal 

 elongate style ; ovule horizontal, laterally attached. Engler in DC. Hon. 

 Phan. II, 214. 



Malacca : Maingay, No. 476. 



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