90 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



From the description of the little known Mangifcra 

 pentandra I take it that this plant is what is intended. 

 Hooker says it much resembles M. indica in leaf and inflor- 

 escence. I do not find it much resembles that. The leaves 

 are very much larger and broader and when full sized 

 rounded at the top. 



M. lanceolata, n. sp. 



Tree, leaves coriaceous, lanceolate obtuse, narrowed 

 at the base, nerves 12 or 13 pairs, 5 inches long, li inch 

 wide, petiole 1 inch long, thickened at the base, narrowing 

 upwards. Panicle 6 inches long, 5 inches across, rachis 

 pubescent. Flowers small on pedicels as long as them- 

 selves, g inch long. Sepals, 5 ovate lanceolate pubescent, 

 Petals twice as long linear oblong, obtuse white, keel half 

 the length trifid at the tip, the central rib projecting subu- 

 late. Stamens fertile 3, 2 much smaller, apparently ab- 

 ortive. Disc lobulate attached to the stamens. Ovary 

 papillose, style apical bent to one side. Fruit elliptic 

 rather small with the style point persistent on the upper 

 side below the tip; not ripe, but about an inch long. 



Kedah, Alor Sta (15233). 



This resembles M. quadrifida in habit but differs 

 in its number of petals and sepals and stamens. 



Parishia rosea, n. sp. 



Large tree 50 to 60 feet tall, branches showing large 

 conspicuous leafscars. Leaves a foot or more long, impari- 

 pinnate, leaflets ovate or oblong ovate base broadest round- 

 ed, minutely cordate, apex obtuse, sessile 4-4i inches long, 

 2 1 inch wide glabrous, nerves 12 pairs, texture rather thin. 

 Panicles from the upper axils long slender with lax bran- 

 ches 18 inches long. Flowers sessile re inch long. 

 Sepals 4 connate at the base oblong obtuse pubescent pink. 

 Petals 4 little longer, white or pink oblong, apex rounded. 

 Stamens 1 filaments, stout, narrowing upwards, antheis 



Jour. Straits Branch 



