1896.] G. King — Materials for, a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 477 



fleshy, fetid, exuding a black varnish, traversed by innumerable fibres ; 

 stone ovate-lanceolate, fibro-coriaceous. Seed erect, adhering to the 

 black tegument on the one side, on the other smooth; cotyledons with 

 one half the surface smooth, the other wrinkled. Maingay describes 

 the disc as hemispherical, but I do not find it so." 



17. Mangifera kemanga, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 202. 

 A large tree with very stout young branches. Leaves crowded at the 

 apices of the branches, coriaceous, sub-aessile, oblanceolate or obovate- 

 oblong or cuneate-oblong, sub-acute or shortly and obtusely acuminate 

 the edges sub-undulate, gradually narrowed from below the middle 

 to the base, glabrous and the reticulations obsolete on both surfaces : 

 main nerves 20 to 22 pairs, slender but distinct on both surfaces, the 

 midrib also broad and distinct ; length 9 to 15 in., breadth 2 - 5 to 4 in. • 

 petiole sometimes T to *3 in. but usually absent. Panicle large, termi- 

 nnl, much longer than the leaves, 20 to 30 in. long, on a stout ana-led 

 peduncle covered by minute white hairs with a few longer brown ones 

 intermixed : branches of the panicle angled, spreading and dividing 

 the flowers borne in cymules at the ends of the branchlets ; bracteoles 

 broadly ovate, concave, pubescent, deciduous. Flowers *25 in. long, of a 

 rich pinkish purple, their pedicels short. Sepals 5, erect, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, thick, concave, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals 5 less 

 than twice as long as the sepals, erect, linear-lanceolate, concave, thick 

 the edges thickened and undulate, glabrous, with a single mesial rido-e 

 in front. Stamen 1, shorter than the petals : the anther ovate, short. Disc 

 narrow, embracing the base of the sub-globose ovary • style sublateral 

 filiform : stigma small, terminal. Drupe {fide Griffith) oblong, a little 

 gibbous at the base, obliquely .emarginate near the apex, of a brown 

 colour and with the smell of a dorian or mango : flesh and juice copious 

 fibres very abundant. Stone in outline lanceolate, rather compressed 

 not woody but fibro-coriaceous, seed erect. M. policarpa, Griff. Notul. 

 IY, 416, t, 567, fig. 2 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 20; Engler Mon. Phan. 

 IV, 213. 



Malacca : Griffith. Sumatra : Forbes, No. 3198. 



This is a species closely allied to M. caesia, Jack, but the leaves of 

 this are usually quite sessile and the panicle is greatly larger. Griffith's 

 Malacca specimens consist of leaves only, his description extends »to 

 the fruit, but not to the flowers. I have described the flowers from 

 Forbes's Sumatra plant, the leaves of which appear to me to resemble 

 perfectly those of Griffith's Malacca specimens ; and they agree to the 

 minutest detail with Blume's full description. The vernacular name in 

 Malacca is, according to Griffith, Camang which according to Blume 

 changes on the Archipelago to Kemang, Kamang and Kamanga. 

 J. n. 61 



