1890.] Q. King— Maieriah for a Flora of the Malayan Penimula. 479 
ThiMs at once dietiugiiished in the genua by ita large flowers and 
proininently bracteolate peduncles. It hm liitberfco been collected only 
iu Maliicca, and only by Maiugay. The great massing of semi-ligneoua 
bni^td a.fc the base of the peduncle is quite unique in the genus. 
Besides the foregoing there are in the Caleutta IJerbarinm flowering 
specimens of a Mangifura collected by Mr. L. Wray at an elevation of 
3,400 feet on Gunong Batu Pateb in Pemfc, (Hei-b. Wray, No. 982). 
These havo good flowers, but not one of them is iu fruit. The species is 
S-raei-otts, and is evidently allied to If, Gn^ihii^ Hook. fil. and to JIf. 
longij^esj Griff. ¥vom the former of thcf?e it is distinguished by ita 
ghibroufi — not puberulous — panicles, aud more laxly i-eticnlate leaves 
with shorter petioles. From M, loiujipes it differs in having aliorter and 
more condensed panicle!? and smaller flowers. There ai'e also fruiting 
specimens of a speciea gathered by the Calcutta Garden Collector j tho 
late Mr. H. Kunatler, iti Perak at an elevation of 500 to 800 feet 
(King's Oolleetor, No. 77-U) ; but none of them has a single flower on 
it The fruit when ripe is described by Mr. Kumstler as yellowish- 
grey in colour, measuring fi-om four to five inches in length, and aliout 
iialf as ranch in dhimeter. Tbe leaves are oblong, tapering to each end, 
finely rcticnlato and with 13 to 15 pairs of faint ascendiug nerves. 
It \m described as a tree 50 to 70 feet iu height* ^ 
4. Anacahdium, Eottb. 
Shrnba or trees. Leaves altematej, petioled, simple, quito entire. 
Panicles termiurd, bi-acteate. Floivsra polygamous. Cali/x deeply 5- 
partitc ; tbe segments nati^w, erect, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, 
linetir-lanceolate, recurved, imbricate. . Disc filling the base of the calyjt, 
erect. Statnens S-10, all or some fertile ; Jilavietits connate and adaato 
to the disc. Ovary obliquely obovoid or obcordate ; style filiform, ex- 
centrie, stigma minute ; ow^e 1, serai-pendnlons by a funicle from tho 
Bide of tlie base of the ovaiy. Nid kidney-shaped, seated on a largo 
pyriform fleshy body formed of the enlarged disc and top of the peduncle ; 
jmricarp cellular and full of oil. Seed kidnoy-sbaped, ascending ; testa 
membranous, adherent ; cotijtedons semi-lunar j radicle short, booked. — 
UiSTRiB. A small ti-opical American genus, of which one species is 
naturalised in Asia. 
Anacardiom occidkntalb, Lion, Sp. PI. 548. A small tree. Leaves 
coriaceous, glabroas, obovate, obovate-oblong or elliptic ; the apex obtuse, 
ronnded or retuse, tbe edges entire ; the base cuneate or enb-cuneal e, 
rarely rounded ; main nen'es 10 to 12 pairs, spreading, rather pjomi- 
nent -beneath ; length 4 to 9 in., breadth 8 to 3 in. ; petiole "5 to -75 in. 
Fanichs terminal, longer thim the leaves, on ijcduuclea which lengthen 
