14 XLvi. ANACAEDiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) \M(mgifem. 



Beddome Fl. Sylv. t. 162 ; Wall. Cat. 8487 {exd. B. G. §• J.) ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Flor. 61 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4510 ; Brandis For. Flor. 125. M. domestica, 

 Gaertn. Fruot. t. 100. — Rheede Sort. Mai. iv. t. 1, 2. 



Teopical Himaiata ; alt. 1-3000 ft. from Kumaon to Bhotan Hills and valleys 

 of Bbhak, the Khasia Mts., BmMA, Oubh, and "Westeen Peninsula from Kan- 

 deish soiTth"wards. — Distkib. Cultivated as far west as Muscat, in all Eastern tropi- 

 cal Asia, and generally in the tropics. 



A large tree, glabrous, except the panicle ; branches -widely spreading. Leaves 

 fi-16 in., very variable in breadth, cro-wded at the ends of the branches, acute, acu- 

 minate or obtuse, shining, nerved, quite entire, margins often undulate ; petiole 1-4- 

 in., swollen at the base. Fanicles a foot and more, pubescent, rarely glabrate ; bracts 

 elliptic, concave. Flowers yellow, odorous, subsessile, rarely pedicelled, g and § 

 on the same panicle. Sepals ovate, oblong, concave. Petals twice as long, ovate, 

 ridges 3-5, orange. Dish fleshy, S-lobed. Stamen- 1, inserted upon the disk, filament 

 subulate ; anther purple. Ovary glabrous. Drupe 2-6 in., compressed, yellow. — It 

 is often diiBcult to say whether so common a tree is wild or not in a given locality, 

 but there seems to be little doubt but that it is indigenous in the localities enume- 

 rated above. Amongst the varieties, those with an almost glabrous panicle from the 

 Western Peninsula look the most unlike the ordinary cultivated form. One Maisor 

 specimen has leaves 10 by 1§ in., much resembling those of M. oblongifolia, WaUich's 

 8487 D. is a Sorindeia, a Madagascar plant accidentally intermixed ; 8487 Gt. is 

 Buchanania? acuminata {Weil. Cat. 981), and 8487 I. is, I suspect, M. sylvatica. 



2. m. caloneura, Kurz in Beng. As. Soe. Journ. 1873, ii. 66 ; leaves 

 oUong or obloiig-laiiceolate finely reticulated between the nerves acuminate, 

 panicle spreading tomentose, flowers crowded sessile, petals 5 with 3 ridges, 

 stamens 1 or 2 fertile, ovary rough, style lateral or basal. 



Maetaban, Kurz. 



A moderate sized tree. Leaves 4^6 by l^lf in., equally reticulated on both sur- 

 faces between the 16-20 pairs of arching nerves ; petiole |-1 in., much thickened at 

 the base. Panicle tomentose throughout. Flowers much as in M. indica, the re- 

 flexed petals having" 3 ridges. (Fruit as large as a hen's egg, subreniform, smooth, 

 obtuse, yellow, sweet and acid, Kurz). — My specimens of this are imperfect ; it is- 

 evidently very nearly indeed allied to M. indica, differing chiefly in the very fine re- 

 ticulation of the leaves, as pointed out by Kurz, WaUich's M. indica, 8487 H. from 

 Tavoy is possibly the same. 



3. nx, pentandra, -Hbo/i;./. ; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate reticulated on both surfaces, panicle' spreading tomentose, flowers crowded 

 subsessile, petals 5 with 3 ridges, stamens 5 perfect, ovary smooth, style suIk 

 terminal. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingof/. 



A tree. Leaves g-12 by 2-4 in., quite similar to those of M. indica, as are the 

 panides and flowers, except that Maingay describes the disk as more fully ani 

 fairly developed than in any form he had figured. The 5 stamens are all perfect ' 

 and unequal. The petals are yeUowish-white, with yellow brown ridges. Maingay 



figures the style as nearly terminal, and the ovule as quite laterally suspended. The. 



Malay name is ' Mam ploni,' which means mango ripened artificially. 



4. m. Crrifiathil, Soak. f. in Trans. lAnn. Sao. xxii. 168, in notei 

 leaves small oblong or oblong-obovate obtuse reticulate between the nerves, ' 

 inflorescence of many suberect compound pubescent racemes, petals 4 orbicular- 

 oblong not much exceeding the sepals, stamen 1. 



Malacca, Griffith. 



Branches stout. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2 in. ; nerves about 10 pairs ; base narrowed,' 

 petiole stout, J in. Bacmes (branches of a reduced panicle), not much if at all longer 



