78 PLANTS OF PRTNCE OF WALES ISLAND 



TECTONA. 



Tectona grandis. 



Teak tree. A few trees cultivated in the Honourable 

 Company's spice plantation. Brought from Java. 



Mangifera. 



1. Mangifera indica, Willden p. 1150. 



Leaves oblong lanceolate, (panicles terminal E.) flowers 

 sub monandrous ; drupe very large, kidney form. Willd. and 

 Eoxb. Cultivated. 



2. Mangifera foetida, Lour. ed. Willd. p. 199. 



Eacemes, elongate, petals entirely reflected ; drupe cordate, 

 pubescent. Lour. Manga foetida. Eumph. 1. 1. cap. 23 tab. 

 28. Tree large, with divergent branches. Leaves sparse, 

 oblong, most entire, smooth ; below with parallel nerves 

 (length eight inches, breadth two). Petioles ascending, 

 thicker at the base (one or one and half inch in length). 

 Panicles terminal, composed of racemes sparse, spread- 

 ing : peduncles in threes, very short, again bifid, proper 

 pedicles very small. The whole panicle red. Bracts two, 

 scale like, very small, at the base of each pedicel. Calyx 

 perianth five leafed ; leaflets ovate, acute, concave, erect of a 

 scarlet colour. Corolla petals five, lanceolate, acute, reflected 

 from the base sessile ; yellow at the base, rose colour in the 

 centre, whitish at the margin and apex. Stam filaments 

 five, awl-shape, unequal, erect, connected at the base ; anthers 

 oblong, erect. Pist : Germ globose, smooth ; style thread form 

 erect, the length of the stamina ; stigma simple obtuse. 

 Drupe heart shape; not hairy. Cultivated. Mai. Bachang, 

 or Machang. 



In some flowers one fifth part of the number is wanting 

 in the Calyx, Corolla and Stamina. In others I found only a 

 rudiment of the Pistillum. These are probably male flowers. 



The flowers have hardly any smell ; and the leaves, when 

 bruised, exhale a faint herbaceous odour, not the resinous 



Jour. Straits Branch 



