Spendias.], xiivi. anacaediagb^.- (J. D. Hooker.) 43 



lulate, 3-4 in., pale teneath, not, abruptly acuminate as in S.', mangifera and 

 acuminata; nerves free, arching. ' Mowers solitary or subsolitary on the branches, 

 long pedicelled, \ in. dian\„ white. Calyx lobes . acute. Petals elliptic, subacute. 

 Filaments short, subulate. Disl: annular, lO-lobed. Ovary 6-eelled with 5 short 

 erect styles. Drupe 1| in. long, rouiided at the top, yellow. Stone S-celled, quite 

 Email; — I know this plant only through Roxburgh's description and excellent drawing, 

 which ,representB a true Spendias in the structure of flower, fruit and embryo ; but 

 the arqhed-nerved leaves which he describes as ' gash-serrate' but figures as obtusely 

 serrate), and the subsolitary flowers on the branches with peduncles J in. long, are 

 quite> unlike a,nj. Spoiidias I know. 



4 S. ? xnacrophylla, Wall. Cat. 8480 ; leaflets 3-4rpair G-D in. elliptic 

 acuminate. 



BiBMA, at Taong-dong, Wallich. 



This, of which there are only mutilated leaves and fragments of a panicle without 

 flower or fruit, in "Wallich's Herbarium, may be only S. mangifera. 



21. SRACOKTOnXEXiUItl, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate ; leaflets opposite or alternate, quite en- 

 tire. Panicles axillary and subterminal. Flowers small, pale, hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx 6-partite, segments conniving, imbricate. Petals 5, suberect, subvalvate. 

 Dish cup-shaped, crenulate. Stamens 10, inserted at the base of the disk. Ovary 

 sessile, 5-celled ; styles 5, thick, erect (like ovaries), connate by their obtuse, stig- 

 matiferous tips ; ovules -solitary and pendulous in the cells. Drupe globose, 

 fleshy, tubercled above the middle by the style-bases ; stone hard, depressed, 2-5- 

 celled ; cells diverging, opening by canals through the top of the stone. Seeds 

 compressed, pendulous, testa membranovis ; cotyledons plano-convex, radicle 

 short superior centrifugal. — Disieib. 5 species natives of tropical Asia and the 

 Pacific. 



1. D. mang^iferum, Blume Mus. Pot. i. 231, t. 42 ; leaflets 5-8 pairs 

 opposite and alternate oblong-lanceolate acuminate, panicle much branched pu- 

 liescent or tomentose. Poupartia mangifera, Plume Pijd. 1160 (exel. synon.). 

 P. pinnata Planco Flor. Filipp. 393. 



Eastern Pentnsula, South Andaman Islands, Kurs ; Malacca, Griffith, Maingay • 

 Penang, Maingay. — Disteib. Eastward to the Philippines and Piji Islands, native 

 and cultivated. 



A large tree. Leaiies l-lj ft. ; petiole cylindric, glabrous or pubescent ; leaflets 

 petiolulate, 6—7 by \\-2\ in., usually rather falcate and oblique at the rounded or cor- 

 'date base, gradually narrowed to the subacute apex, glabrous above, beneath glabrous 

 puberolous or with tufts of hair in the nerve axils; nerves 10-12 pair, arched, reticu- 

 lations close small ; petiolule \ in. Panicle equalling or exceeding the leaves, pubes- 

 cent or tomentose ; pedicels slender, ebracteate. Flowers campanulate, j-^ in. diam., 

 greenish white. Sepals pubescent or tomentose. Petals longer, recurved. Fila- 

 ments slender. Prupe 1 in. diam., depressed. — A variable plant in pubescence, of 

 which I think D. sylvestre, Blvtme, and P.puberulum, Miq. are varieties. 



Vak. 1. Leaflets nearly glabrous beneath with occasional tufts of hair in the 

 nerve axils. — Andaman and Malacca. 



Vak. 2. Leaflets and petiole pubescent beneath. — ^Malacca. 



Vak. 3. Leaflets glabrous beneath, panicles and flowers msty-tomentose. — 



