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3. MANGIFERA Linnaeus 



Large trees with entire, coriaceous leaves. Flowers small, polygamous, 

 in terminal panicles, the pedicels articulate, the bracts small, deciduous. 

 Calyx 4- or 5-partite. Petals 4 ol: 5, free from the disk. Stamens 5, 

 one perfect and larger than the others, the other 4 smaller, imperfect. 

 Ovary sessile, 1-celled, oblique; style lateral; ovule pendulous. Fruit a 

 large fleshy drupe; seed large, compressed, fibrous or smooth. |(Malay 

 name of the fruit and the Latin "to bear.") 



A tropical Asiatic, chiefly Malayan genus, of about 30 species, 4 or 6 

 known from the Philippines, a single cultivated one in our area. 



♦1. M. INDICA L. Manga (Sp.-Fil.) ; Mango. 



A large tree, the crown dense, spreading.' Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 10 to 30 cm long. Panicles often as long as or 

 exceeding the leaves, pubescent. Flowers yellow, small, 3 to 4 mm long. 

 Disk 5-lobed. Perfect stamen 1, the other 4 .much reduced. Ovary gla- 

 brous. Drupe yellow, fleshy, 10 to 15 cm long, oblong-ovdid, somewhat 

 compressed. Seed large, flattened, fibrous, (Fl. Filip. pi. 62, M. rostrata.) 



The well known mango, fl. Nov.-May, common in Manila and through- 

 out the Philippines, introduced. A native of India or Malaya, now cul- 

 tivated throughout the tropics. 



4. BUCHANAN lA Roxburgh 



Trees with alternate, simple, entire leaves, the panicles terminal and 

 axillary. Flowers small, perfect. Calyx short, persistent, 3- to 5-lobed. 

 Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, recurved. Stamens 8 or 10, free. Car- 

 pels 5 or 6, free, one fertile, the others imperfept; style short; ovule 

 solitary. Drupe small, compressed, with scanty flesh, the stone bony. 

 (In honor of Dr. F. Buchanan-Hamilton, a Scotch physician and naturalist.) 



Species about 20, tropical Asia to Australia and Polynesia, 4 or 5 in the 

 Philippines, one in our area. 



1. B. arborescens Blume (B. florida Schauer). Balinhasay (Tag.). 



A tree 5 to 10 m high, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves oblong-obovate, 

 acute or rounded, base narrowed, 8 to 25 cm long, somewhat crowded toward 

 the ends of the branches. Panicles in the uppermost axils, many on each 

 branch, 6 to 20 cm long, rather narrow. Flowers very numerous, white, 

 8 to 4 mm long, the petals reflexed. Fruit red, compressed, suborbicular 

 to ovoid, 7 to 10 mm long, the pulp very thin and scanty. (Fl. Filip. pi. 

 es, Fagara decandrot.) 



In thickets, Masambong, San Pedro Macati, etc., fl. Feb.-June; very 

 common and widely distributed in the Philippines. India to Malaya. 



5. '8P0NDIA8 Linnaeus 



Deciduous glabrous trees. Leaves pinnate, alternate, more or less 

 crowded at the tips of the branchlets. Leaflets subopposite. Panicles 

 teraimal, spreading. Flowers small, polygamous. Calyx small, 4- or 5-fid. 

 Petals 4 or 5. Disk cupular, broad, crenate. Stamens 8 or 10 inserted 

 beneath the disk. Ovary sessile, free, 4- or 5-celled; styles 4 or 5, conniving; 

 ovules solitary, pendulous. Drupe fleshy; stone hard, thick, 1- to 5-celled. 

 the eel s opemng by canals through the top of the stone. (Greek name of 

 a tree.) 



