TEBEBINTHAOE^. 323 



funicle.^ Fruit drupaceous ; mesoearp tMn, finally subdry ; puta- 

 men osseous or ohartaceous ; testa of compressed seeds suspended from 

 much compressed funicle, thin ; cotyledons of exalbuminous some- 

 times unequally gibbous embryo^ thick, plano-convex ; radicle superior 

 accumbent. — Trees or small trees ; odour terebinthaceous ; leaves 

 alternate imparl- or paripinnate, sometimes 3-foliolate, exstipulate, 

 deciduous or perennial ; flowers in subsimple or more or less com- 

 pound cymiferous axillary racemes bracteate. [Medit. Beg, Temp. 

 Ins. Asia, East. Africa, Cent. America.^) 



32. Manglfera L,* — Flowers polygamous-dioecious ; sepals 4, 5, 

 imbricated deciduous. Petals 4, 5, alternate, at the middle incrassate 

 within, below imbricated. Stamens 4, 5, alternipetalous, inserted 

 below thickly pulviniform or stipitiform disk ; filaments (of which 1, 

 2 or often longer than the others) fi-ee or united at base, and some 

 times connate with disk ; anthers (efiete in female flower) introrse, 

 2-rimose. Germen free sessile, 1 locular;^ style lateral simple, 

 not dilated stigmatiferous at apex. Ovule suspended from summit 

 of short subbasilar funicle more or less high adnate to wall ; micro- 

 pyle introrse superior. Drupe ^ ovoid or subreniform ; mesoearp 

 sometimes very fleshy ; putamen thick, outwardly fibrous or sub- 

 lanate, 2-valved or evalvate ; testa of compressed seeds chartaceous 

 or pergamentaceous ; cotyledons of thick exalbuminous embryo ^ large 

 fleshy plano-convex, sometimes lobed ; radicle inferior ascendent *. — 

 Trees ; leaves alternate petiolate simple entire coriaceous ; flowers » in 

 terminal much ramified compound-cymiferous racemes; pedicels 

 articulate. {Tropical Asia.^°) 



' March. Anacard. t. 1, fig. 18-27. ' Seeds sometimes polembryonic (Reinw. in 



2 Often green. ^o'"- -^o*- ^"f- (^^- ^- ^^^- *•, •^^)- 



5 Spec. 6, 7. H. B. K. Nov. Qm. et Spec, vii " Plumule sometimes more or less plainly 



t. 608.— Weee. Phyt. emar. t. 66.— Gebn. et ramified in germination. 



GoDR. Fl. de Fr. i. 339.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, « Often pale yellowish, 1 M. indica, purple- 



xi. 181.— Walp. Sep. i. 549 ; Ann. ii. 280 ; iii. striped. 



843 ; iv. 146 ; vii. 643. i° Spec, about 12, of -wliioli 1 is cultivated 



* Gen. n. 278.— J. Gen. 369. — Gt^eetn. Fruot. between the tropics. Eheed. Sort. Malah. iv. 



ii. 96, t. 100.— Lamk. III. t. 138.— Desrodss. t. 1, 2 (Man). — Jacq. Ic. Mar. t. 337.— TudS. 



Diet. iii. 696 ; Suppl. iii. 383.— K. in Ann. Sc. Fl. A t. ii. t. 15.— Tdrp. in Diet. Se. Nat. Atl. 



Nat ser. 1, ii. 335. — DO. Frodr. ii. 63.— Spach. t. 262.— Humph. Serb. Amboin. i. 93, 25.— 



Suit a Buffon, ii. 192.— Endl. Qen. n. 6915.— Wk.ht et Arn. Frodr. i. 169.— Hook. v. in 



Payee Organog. 91, t. 20.— B. H. Gen. 420, n. Trans. Linn.Soc. xxiii. t. 23.— Mia. Fl.-Ind. Bat. 



J.— March. Anacard. 104, 190. i. p. ii. 627 ; Suppl. i. 521.— Kt. in Pet. Moss. 



5 Carpels sometimes (in cultivated spec.) 3-6, Bot. 90. — Benth. Fl. SongJc. 69. — Gbiseb. Fl.. 

 free, of which 3, 4, are sterile and smaller. Brit. W.-Ind. 176.— Tr. et Pl. in Ann. So. Nat. 



6 UsuaUy large, yellowish, greenish, purplish ser. 5, xiv. 287.— Owv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 442.— 

 or violet. Kttrz, in Flora (1870), 345.— March, in r«. 



