AQQ G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [So. 3, 



Plian. IV, 239. B. Gandaria, Blume Mas. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 204. (sub 

 B. oppositifolia.) 



Malacca : Griffith, No. 1105 ; Maingay, No. 478. Perak : Scorte- 

 chini, No. 1938 ; King's Collector, No. 679. 



This species has larger leaves and fruit than B. burmanica, and 

 the panicles are much more densely flowered than in that species. 

 The calyx moreover in this is very tomentose, and the petals ai-e 

 narrow oblanceolate and spreading. 



3. Mangifera, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, quite entire, coriaceous. Flowers 

 small, polygamous, in terminal panicles, pedicel articulate ; bracts deci- 

 duous. Sepals 4i or 5, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4-5, free or adnate 

 to the disc, imbricate ; nerves thickened, sometimes endinc in excrescen- 

 ces. Stamens 1-5, rarely 8, inserted just within the disc, or on it, 1 

 usually more perfect and much larger than the others ; the others with 

 imperfect or smaller anthers, or reduced to teeth or quite absent. Ovary 

 sessile, 1-celled, oblique ; style lateral ; ovule pendulous, funicle basal, or 

 inserted on the side of the cell above its base, rarely horizontal. Drupe 

 large, fleshy ; stone compressed, fibrous. Seed large, compressed, testa 

 papery; cotyledons plano-convex, often unequal and lobed. — Distbib. 

 tropical Asiatic, chiefly Malayan ; about 30 species. 

 Disc fleshy, tumid, more or less deeply 4- or 5-lobed, 

 the petals inserted at its base. 



Sepals and petals 4, stamen 1. 

 Panicles puberulous. 



Leaves narrowly elliptic or elliptic-ob- 

 long, tapering much to each end, thiuly 

 coriaceous ; petioles 1 to 1*25 in. long ... 1. M. Griffithii. 

 Leaves elliptic, sub-coriaceous, petioles 

 •25 to '4 in. long ... ... 2. M. raicropliylla. 



Leaves broadly elliptic, slightly obo- 

 vate, thickly coriaceous ; petioles *25 to 

 •75 in. long ... ... ... 3. M. scleropliylla. 



Panicles quite glabrous. 



Leaves not reticulate, or very indis- 

 tinctly so on the lower surface only ... 4. M. Maingayi. 

 Leaves distinctly reticulate. 



Leaves broadly oblanceolate or obo- 



vate-elliptic ... ... ... 5. M. andamanica. 



Leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate. 



