322 XLI. ANACAEDIACEiE. [Mmgifera. 



ridges 3 — 5, orange. Disk fleshy, 'S-lobed. Stamens 1, inserted upon the disk ; 

 filaments subulate ; anthers purple. Ovary glabrous. Drupe, size, form and 

 colour various. 



Hab.: This Indian fruit-tree is met with here, and as a stray Jroni cultivation.—./. S. Gamble, 

 in Manual of Indian Timbers. 



The wood is used for planking, doors and window-frames, packing eases, boxes, canoes, and 

 boats. The bark gives a gum, and the seeds contain gallic acid. The average weight of a cubic 

 foot of the wood is 411bs. Wood soft, somewhat spongy ; no heart-wood. 



The fruit of this tree is often attacked by the blight fungus Glceospmimn Lafjenanvm, Pass. 



4. BUCHANANIA, Eoxb. 



(After Dr. Buchanan Hamilton.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx short, obtusely 3 to 5-toothed. Petals 5, 

 imbricate in the bud. Disk orbicular, crenate. Stamens 10, inserted round the 

 disk. Gyncecium of 5 or 6 distinct carpels, of which one only perfect, the others 

 rudimentary and style-like ; style of the perfect one short, with a truncate stigma; 

 ovule suspended from an erect filiform funiole. Drupe small, the putamen 

 erustaceous or bony, 2-valved. Seed with thick cotyledons and a superior radicle. — 

 Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous. Flowers small, white, iu 

 terminal or axillary panicles. 



The genus extends over tropical Asia and the islands of the Pacific, the two Australian species 

 being endemic. 



Anthers sagittate. 



Leaves large, lanceolate-oblong, cuneate at the base, the point obtuse or 



absent, the secondary lateral nerves parallel 1. B. mangoides. 



Leaves smaller, the secondary lateral nerves not parallel. Drupe shortly 



pilose, apex exoentric 2. B. Muelleri. 



1. B. mangoides (Mango-like), F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 23; Engler. in DC. 

 Mono. Fhane. iv. 187. A tree about 40ft. in height, the branehlets and peduncles 

 tomentose. Leaves large, attaining 1ft. in length, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed 

 to rather long petiole, thin-coriaceous, bright-green on the upper side, pale 

 beneath ; parallel nerves about 16 on each side of midrib, with intermediate ones. 

 Panicles terminal, dense, ferruginous-pilose, G or 7in. long. Branches 1 to liin. 

 long. Pedicels short. Calyx glabrescent ; lobes semiorbicular, f line long. 

 Petals oblong, 1\ line long, glabrous. Filaments subulate. Anthers sagittate ; 

 lobes oblong-cylindrical, divergent. Styles 5, very short. Ovary strigose-pilose. 



Hab.: Family Island, J. Ballachy (F. v. M., l.e ) ' 



2. B. Muelleri (after Baron von Mueller), Engler. in DC. Mono. Phane. iv. 

 191. A tree of medium height and widely-spreading head ; the young branehlets 

 silky-pilose, at length glabrous. Leaves 4 to 6in. long, and 1^ to 2in. broad, 

 subcoriaceoQs, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, narrowing from the middle to a petiole 

 of a few lines, swelled at the base, the apex very obtuse or acute or sometimes 

 emarginate. Inflorescence usually below the terminal leaves of the shoots. 

 Peduncles sometimes 2in. long, bearing an elongated rather straggling panicle 

 with few branches, but usually the panicles are almost terminal, shorter, and 

 more dense. Pedicels short. Calyx glabrous ; lobes semiorbicular. Petals 

 oblong, 1 or 2 lines long, white. Stamens' with subulate filaments about ^ line 

 long. Anthers sagittate. Ovary strigose-pilose. Drupe purple, compressed, about 

 5 lines long and nearly as broad, the apex nearly terminal. 



Hab.: Endeavour Elver, Cape York, and the islands of Torres Straits and Gulf of Carpentaria. 



Wood of a pinkish colour, close-gi-ained, tough, and easily worked. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods 

 No. 109a (by mistake given as B, mangoides). 



