Bouea.'] xlvi. anacaediace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 21 



Talvate. Petals 3-5, imbricate. Disk verytsmall. Stamens 3-5, inserted 

 witHn the disk, all fertile. Ovary sessile; style short, terminal, stigma 

 ohscm'ely unequally 3-lohed ; ovule ascending from the wall of thff cavity. 

 Drupe fleshy; stone thin, fibrous, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed suberect; coty- 

 ledons fleshy; radicle very short, .inferior. — ^Disteib. Species 5, natives of 

 Tropical Asia and the Malay Archipelago. 



1. S. burmanica, Oriff. Plant. Cantor 14; leaves 5-7 in. elliptic- 

 lanceolate obtusely acuminate, nerves 12-15 pairs, panicles obscurely puberulous 

 lax-flowered, flowers 4^5-merous. B. oppositifolia, Meissn. in Walp. Rep. i. 

 656. B. Brandisiana, Kurz in Jmm-n. As. Soc. Beng. 1871, ii. 50 ; 1873, ii. 66. 

 Mangifera oppositifolia, Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 640 ; Sort. Bengh. 18 ; WaU. Cat. 

 8490. Cambessedea, Wt. 8; A. Prodr. i. 170. 



Pegtj, Tenasseeim and the Andaman Islands. — Disteib. Java. 



Leaves very coriaceous, pale ; nerves above sunk, very slender, beneath raised with 

 a slender incised line along the ridge. Fanides much shorter than the leaves, 

 slender, spreading, lax, few-flowered. Mowers about | in. diam., yellow, pedicelled, 

 ■quite glabrous. Sepals rounded. Petals oblong, keeled on the face. Stamens 

 usually i. Ovary obliquely ovoid. Drupe 1-2 in., broadly ovoid, compressed, 

 yellow, eatable. — 'Mariam' or 'Mai-een' of the Burmese. Kurz states that the 

 ^stamens are usually 8, perhaps a misprint for 3. 



2. B. mlcropliylla, Chiff. Plant. Cantor 15 ; Notul. iv. 423 ; leaves 

 2^3^ in. elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, panicles dense- 

 flowered obscurely puberulous, flowers 4r-merous. B. diversifolia, Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. Swppl. i. 522. ?B. myrsinoides, Bhmie Mus. Bat. t. i. 204; Miquel 

 1. c. i. pt. 2, 635. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. — Disteib. Sumatra. 



Very similar to B. bwrmanioa, but much smaller in all its parts and usually 

 1;riandrous. — ' Eoomaniya Paigo ' of the Burmese. 



3. B. macropliylla, Ch-iff. Plant. Cantor 15; Notul. iv. 420, t. 567, 

 f. 4 ; leaves 6-10 in. oblong-lanceolate obtuse or obtusely acuminate, panicle 

 much branched dense-flowered very pubescent, flowers usually 3-merous. ? B. 

 gandaria, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 204, in note ; MiqvA Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 635. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingay. — ^Disteib. Java, Borneo. 



A much larger plant than B. oppositifoUa, with more oblong glossy leaves, the 

 nerves 12-20 pairs sunk on the upper surface, raised on the lower but not grooved on 

 the ridge. Panicle 2-3 in. long ; branches stout, spreading horizontally and bearing 

 densely crowded cymes of flowers about i in. Siam. Sepals 3 in ihs ^ {Griffith). 

 Stamens 3-5. Drupe ovoid oblong, a little oblique, as large as a hen's egg; pulp 

 yellowish, acid, not terebinthine ; stone leathery, fibrous, adherent to the testa. 

 Cotyledons lUac, equal, reticulate, rugose {Griffith). 'Eoomaniya Baitool' of the 

 Malays. 



5. GIilTTA, Linn. 



Trees with caustic juice. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branchlets, 

 short-petioled, simple, oblong, coriaceous. Panicles axUlary and terminal. 

 Flowers small, hermaphrodite. Calyx spathaceous, bursting irregularly, 

 ■caducous. Petals 4-6, adnate to the disk, imbricate. Disk elongate, rarely 

 abort. Stamens 4r-6, inserted on the disk, filaments capillary. Ovary sessile 

 on the disk or stipitate, oblique, 1-celled ; style lateral, filLform, stigma simple ; 

 ■ovule 1, pendulous from a basal funicle. Berry stalked, dry, deformed, 

 tubercled or ridged. Seed with the testa adherent to the pericarp and full of 

 lilack juice; cotyledons large, connate, fleshy; radicle short, obtuse, incurved. — 

 Disteib. About 8 species, all Malayan. 



