1854.] Some account of the Botanical Collection. 633 



Habit. — "Woods about Pringitt, and near Bhim, Malacca. 



Desck. # — Arbor majuscula. Folia alterna, exstipulata, breve pe- 

 tiolata, obovato-lanceolata, obtusa, emarginata, coriacea, crenato- 

 serrata (saepius distanter,) subtus reticulata, sicca castaneo-brunea : 

 magnitudine varia, majora nempe 6-uncias longa, 2-lata, minora long. 

 3-uncialia, lat. 1-uncialia. Corymbi axillares, folia excedentes, mul- 

 tiflori, e cymis dichotomis sub-6-lloris conflati. Bractece caducse. 

 Mores parvi, inconspicui, viridescentes, glutinosi. Calyx ultra me- 

 dium 5 partitus, (potius 5-sepalus, pedicellis apice incrassatis) ; 

 lacinise corollam fere sequantes, oblongaa, acutae. Corolla convoluto- 

 clausa, apice quasi perforata. Betala rotundato oblonga, concava, 

 venosa. Annulus brevis, carnosus, crenulatus, inter stamina et pis- 

 tillum. Stamina 13-16. Filamenta annulo basin versus inserta, 

 capillacea, diu persistentia. Antherce ovatae, biloculares, longitudina- 

 liter dehiscentes, decidual. Pollen tri-porosum. Ovarium com.cw.rn, 

 sub-5-gonum, 5-loculare. Ovula 2 cuivis loculo, anatropa, pendula 

 ex apice anguli interioris ope funiculorum longiusculorum. Raphe 

 extrorsa. Stylus capillaceus, ovario 6-plo longior, stamina paullo 

 superans, diu persistens. Stigma capitatum, margine reflexum. 

 Fructus anguste ovatus, acutus, 7-8. lineas longus, 3-4-latus, basi 

 calyce et corolla circumdatus, lineis 5 notatus, septicidim 5-valvis, 

 valvis osseis intus centro carinatis. Semina saepius abortientia 

 processu foraminis sursum et deorsum longe producto, infero ssepius 

 bicruri ; perfectum brunneum, oblongo-lanceolatum, compressiuscu- 

 lum, processu foraminis sub 3-auriculato. Tegumentam exterius 

 coriaceum : interius tenuissimum, albumen arete vestiens. Raphe 

 semi-completa. Chalaza subdepressa. Albumen carnosum, copiosum. 

 Fmbryo ad latus exterius albuminis. Radicula longa, gracilis, longi- 

 tudine cotyledonum foliacearum. Plumula inconspicua. 



This species appears to be allied to T. icosandra, Jack, from which 

 it chiefly seems to differ in the number of the stamina. 



Anacardie^e. — Compilers appear to have overlooked Buchanan'sf 

 remarks on the opposite leaved mangoes, the original species only 



* Chiefly from dried specimens ; of the seeds from living ones, 

 f Mem. Wern. Soc. 5, p. 326. 



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