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Descriptions of Malayan Plants. 



these from the axils of the lower leaves. Flowers small and 

 white. 5rfl!c^5 small, deciduous. Ca/yo: four-leaved, somewhat 

 reflex. Corolla white, four-petalled, spreading, after flower- 

 ing conniving, petals ovate-lanceolate, acute, furnished in 

 the middle with an irregular, yellow, glandular crest. Nee- 

 tart/ of four round, fleshy lobes united into a cup-like recep- 

 tacle, on which the germen is situated. Stamina inserted on 

 the lobes of the nectarium, not within them as in the M. 

 Indica ; one fertile, as long as the corolla ; sterile filaments 

 very short. Germen oblique. Style declinate, as long as 

 the stamen. Fruit roundish, becoming very dark-coloured, 

 containing an ovate seed. 



There are generally some male flowers in the panicle, and 

 rarely a flower occurs with a small superfluous fifth petal 

 placed within the rest.— -W. Jack. 



MANGIFERA FCETIDA. Loureir.^ 



Leaves firm, broad-lanceolate. Panicles terminal, ascend- 

 ing, lengthened, smooth. Flowers sub-monandrous. Corols 

 infundibuliform ; limb spreading, at length reflexed.~MSS. 

 Jack. 



Manga foetida, Rumph. Amh. i. 98. t. 28. 

 Malay. Bachong. 



A native of Penang, Sumatra, &;c. Malacca, 

 A larger tree than the common mango. Leaves very firm 

 and rigid. Panicles large and red-coloured. Stamina in- 

 serted on the lobes of the nectarium, one, sometimes two, 

 fertile. Fruit very foetid, eaten by the Malay s.^ — W. Jack. 



MANGIFERA CESIA. JacJc.l; 



Leaves rigid, broad-lanceolate, attenuate at the base. 

 Panicles terminal, erect, tomentose, glaucous. Flowers 

 monandrous. Petals erect. Fruit oblong. — MSS. Jack. 



* Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, loc. cit. 

 1 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, 2. 441. 



