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XLV. ANACARDIACE^E. 
[Bouea. 
(2) B. macrophylla Griff. Pl. Cantor, 15; Notulee iv. 420; 
Hook. fit. F.B.I. ii. 21; King, l.c. 465. 
Large bushy tree about 30 ft. tall. Leaves dark green, shining, 
coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, bluntly acuminate, base cuneate or 
round; nerves 18 to 20 pairs, 5 to 8 in. long, 1-65 to 2-65 in. wide; 
petioles 75 to 1 in. long. Panicles axillary, dense, 2 to 3 in. long; 
branches 1 in. long or less. Flowers yellow ‘i in. long; pedicels 
finely tomentose. Sepals 3 to 4 ovate tomentose. Petals 3 to 4 
oblong blunt glabrous. Stamens 3 to 4; anthers ovate. Drupe 
oblong as long as an egg, yellow pulpy. Hab. Villages. Singapore, 
Malacca to Biserat, Jalor (Yapp). Native names: Gondongan; 
Kondongan. Use : Fruit eatable and quite good. 
3 . MANGIFERA, Linn. 
Large to vast trees. Leaves simple alternate. Panicles in 
terminal axils, usually large. Flowers small, green, white, pink or 
violet, bisexual. Sepals 4 to 5 imbricate. Petals 4 to 5 imbricate. 
Stamens 1 to 5, rarely 8, one perfect with the others abortive or 
absent, within or on disc. Ovary i-celled, oblique; style lateral. 
Drupe large, pulpy; stone compressed, fibrous. Seed large, fiat or 
convex. About 30 species, tropical Asia, few Africa, chiefly Malayan. 
The Mango ( Mangifera indica) is often planted, and to be seen 
round villages, but not native. Several of the other well-known 
cultivated species, such as the Binjai, are probably not native in 
the peninsula. Native names of Mango : Mampelam; Ampelam; 
Hampelam; also Buah Mangga. The name Pauh is applied also 
to many species. 
Disc fleshy, swollen. 
Sepals and petals 4; stamen 1. 
Panicles pubescent. 
Petiole 1 to 1*25 in. long; leaves 4 in. long or 
more ...... 
Petiole '25 to -4 in. long; leaves elliptic, sub- 
coriaceous . 
Petiole '25 to ‘4 in. long; leayes broad elliptic, 
stiff, coriaceous .... 
Panicles glabrous. 
Leaves 6 by 2 in.; nerves fine, blunt; petiole 
•5 in. long. 
Leaves 11 by 3-5 in., acute; petiole 2*^5 in. 
long. 
Leaves 6 by 2 in.; panicles stout 
Sepals and petals 5. 
Stamens 5 fertile ...... 
Stamens 3 fertile, 2 staminodes 
Stamen 1 perfect. 
Panicle tomentose . 
Panicle glabrous. 
Leaves very coriaceous .... 
Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong 5 to S in. 
long. 
(1) M. Griffithii 
(2) M. microphylla 
(3) M. sclerophylla 
(4) M. Maingayi 
(5) M. longipefiolata 
( 6 ) M, quadrifida 
{7) M. pentandra 
( 8 ) M. lanceolata 
(9) M. indica 
(10) M. oblongifolia 
(11) M. longipes 
