18 XLvi. ANACAEDUCEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) IMangifera. 



A tree, everywhere quite glatrous, or very obscurely pubescent on the panicle. 

 Leaves 6-12 by 2-i in., very coriaceous, reticulate on both surfaces ; nerves about 20- 

 pairs, very strong ; petiole stout, 1:^1 J in., much thickened from below the middleto 

 the base. Panicle with stout green branches that turn black when dry. _ Flowers J in. 

 diam., odorous, flesh-coloured. Sepals ovate-oblong. Petals three _ times as long, 

 reflexed, greenish, sufiiised with blood-red. Perfect stamens sometimes 2 (CfHffitk), 

 the imperfect ones slender, subulate, capitate. Ovari/ glabrous. {Drupe oblong, 

 stinking, yeUow-green, with yellow spots, flUedwith a sticky gum ; flesh yellow, fibrous, 

 sweet, not turpentiny; stone compressed, fibrous; cotyledons rugose, equal at the 

 base, one overlapping at the top. Griffith.)— Malay name " Koeene " or " Kohini," 

 according to Griffith, which is the name Maingay gives to M. oblongifoUa (a totally 

 different plant). This much resembles M. Par%h, Miq., of Java, which has a aiore 

 eflRise panicle with long tertiary branehlets and very long pedicels. 



15. m. la^enifera, Gh-iff. Notul. iv. 414, t. 567, f. 3; leaves small 

 obovate-oblong or -spathulate obtuse or rounded at the tip, panicle large spread- 

 ing pubescent, petals 5 Unear-oUong obscurely thickened in the middle, stamens 

 5 perfect. 



Mat.acca, Griffith, Cwmming (2330), Maingay. 



Avery lofty tree {Griffith); branehlets stout, with pale bark. Leaves 3-6 by 

 lj-l| in., very thickly coriaceous, gradually narrowed into a very stout petiole |-1| 

 in., not reticulate on either surface ; nerves about 20 pairs, very faint, spreading and 

 parallel. Panicle on a long and stout peduncle, much exceeding the leaves. FUymers 

 J in. diam. ; pedicels very short. Sepals many, orbicular, tomentose. Petals three 

 times as long, concave, purple, erect till a late period. Dislc a slender stipes. FUa- 

 mentis very slender (purple, alternating with short horns, Maingay). Ovary glabrous ; 

 style capillary, lateral, (prwpe pyriform, 4J by 1\ in., pale green, with a pink blush, 

 flesh livid or purplish flesh-colour ; stone flbro-coriaceous, adherent to the membranous 

 testa ; radicle basal, very large. Maingay.) — Called Lanjoot by the Malays, according 

 to Maingay and Griffith. The latter describes the djupe as smooth, glaucescent, 

 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 disk as hemispherical, but I do not find it so. 



16. nx. fra^rans, Maingay M8S. ; leaves very narrowly linear-oblong- or 

 lanceolate acute acuminate or rounded at the tip, panicle spreading quite gla- 

 Irous, petals narrow linear, stamens 5, one much longer than the others whose 

 anthers are imperfect. 



Matacoa, Maingay. 



A tree,_ everywhere quite glabrous. Leaves much longer and narrower than in any 

 other species, 6-10 by 1^-lJ in., coriaceous, reticulated on both surfaces, margins 

 waved, base acute abruptly contracted into a very slender petiole 1-2 in.; 

 nerves 25-35 pairs, slender, almost horizontal. Panicle longer than the leaves, 

 peduncle long and branches thick, black when dry. Flowers erect, almost f in. long; 

 pedicel turbinate. Sepals unequal, ovate-lanceolate. Petals very narrow, erect, 

 reflexed sharply from the middle, 1-nerved (Maingay), 3-nerved in a young state. 

 Disk a slender pedicel. Filaments very slender, shorter than the capillary style, 

 which is lateral. {Drupe obliquely broadly oblong-globose; flesh yellow, acid and 

 terebinthine ; stone thin, fibrous; testa coriaceous, Maingay.) — 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. 



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Petals adnate to or inserted on the dish. 



17. nx. foetlda, Lour. Fl. Coch. 160 ; leaves large elliptic-oUong or 

 -olDovate obtuflB or acute not reticulate, nerves strong, panicle very stout glabrous 



