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TEREBINTHACE.E. V. Mangifera. VI. Buchakakia. 



V. MANCrPERA (from Mango, the name of the fruit, and 

 fero, to bear). Lin. gen. no. 278. Gaert. fruct. 2, t. 100. Kunth. 

 gen. tereb. p. 3. D. C. prod. 2. p. 63. 



LlN. SYST- 



panicles, usually monandrous. The fruit is fleshy, strong- scented, 

 of an acid flavour, and unwholesome, but is eaten by the Malays, 

 The wood, though not very good, is used for floors, and lasts 



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Polygamia, Alonoe'cia. Flowers polygamous. Ca- very well if it be soaked a considerable time in water. 



lyx 5-parted, deciduous. Petals 4-5. Stamens 5, 4 of these 



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Clt. 1824. Tree 50 feet. 



•6 usually barren. Style 1. Drupe baccate, somewhat com- 4 M. glau'ca (Blum, bijdr. 1158.) leaves on short petioles, 



pressed (f. 13. 6.), containing a woody fibrous nut (f. 13. c). scattered, large, elliptic-oblong, tapering to both ends, glauces-i^ 



cent beneath ; panicle terminal, divaricated, shorter than the 

 leaves. 



Seed ovate-oblong. Embryo erect, with fleshy cotyledons, and 

 a short radicle. — Indian trees, with long, entire, feather-nerved 

 leaves, and terminal panicles of flowers. Fruit eatable. 



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Native of the Moluccas, where it is called 



1 M. Tkbica (Lin. spec. 290.) 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, stalked ; 



FIG. 13. 



panicle terminal, erect 



1 

 1 



petals 



spreading at the apex; 1 stamen 

 fertile, the rest abortive ; drupe 

 somewhat kidney-shaped, smooth. 

 T^ . S. Native of the East Indies, 

 but now cultivated in every part 

 of the world within the tropics. 

 Lam. ill. t. 138.— Rheed. maL 4. 

 t. 1 and2.M. A'mba, Forsk. descr. 

 205. M. domestica, Gaert. 1. c. 

 Rumph. amb. 1. p. 93. t. 95. The 

 Mango tree is tall, with a spread- 



and when in flower not 



The wood 



top, 

 vudike sweet-chesnut. 



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Manga utan. 



Glaucous Mango. Fl. July. Tree 50 feet. 



5 M. laxiflora (Desr. in Lam. diet. 3. p. 97.) leaves broad- 

 lanceolate, sessile ; panicles loose, pendulous ; flowers pentan- 

 drous : drune roundish. b . S. Native of the Mauritius. 



This is probably referable to M. pentandra of Lour. Flowen 



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uit eatable ? 



-flowered M 



Tree 40 feet. 



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6 M. opposiTiFOLiA (Roxb. hort. beng. 18.) leaves opposite, 

 stalked, lanceolate, tapering to both ends ; panicles axillary and 





is a little brow^n, and used only for 

 indifferent works. The leaves are 



terminal, shorter than the leaves; stamens 4-5, fertile; drupe | 

 smooth, compressed. ^ . S. Native of Pegu and Java, where 

 it is called Gandaria^ and Meriam at Rangoon. Flowers pale- 

 yellow. Drupe pale-yellow^, the size of a small pullet's egg, and 

 is universally eaten in Burma. 



Opposite-leaned Mango. Tree 30 feet. 



7 M. sylva'tica (Roxb. 1. c. fl. ind. 2. p. 438.) leaves alter- 

 nate, lanceolate, glossy; panicles terminal; flowers monandrous; 

 drupe smooth, obliquely-conical, with the point turned to one i 



7 or 8 inches long, and 2 or more broad, of a fine strong green, side. T2 



Native of Silhet, in the East Indies. Luhshmt 



and grow in bunches at the extremity of the branches. The is the vernacular name of this tree in Silhet. The fruit is like 

 flowers are whitish, streaked with yellow; these are disposed in that of the common mango, and yellow; and is eaten by the 

 loose terminal bunches or panicles. The fruit when fully ripe natives, though by no means so palatable as the w^orst kind of 

 is yellow and reddish, or speckled with black, replete with a the common mango. It is also dried by the natives and kept for 

 line agreeable juice ; some are full of fibres, and the jviice runs medicinal purposes, 

 out of these on cutting, or with a little liandling ; but those which 

 have few or no fibres are much the finest ; they cut like an 

 a})ple, but are more juicy, and some are said to be as large as a 

 man's fist, but the most common are about the size and appear* 



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JrooJ Mant^o. 



Tree. 



8 M. quadri'fida (Jack. mss. Wall. fl. ind. 2. p. 440.) leaves 

 alternate, lanceolate, tapering to the base ; panicles loose, axil- 

 lary ; flowers quadrifid, monandrous ; petals 4, glandular in the 



ance of a small golden pippin apple. It is esteemed a very middle. Tj . S. Native of Sumatra, &c. Flowers small, white. 



wholesome fruit, and is considered the finest tropical fruit, with Nectary of 4 round fleshy lobes. Fruit roundish, becoming 



the exception of mangostan, and some of the finest pine apples. very dark. 





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In India jellies, preserves, tarts, &c. are made from the unripe 



Jr/^J-flowered M 



Tree 60 feet. 



fruit. Gentlemen within the tropics eat hardly any other fruit 9 M. c.^'sia (Jack. mss. Wall. fl. ind, 2. p. 441.) leaves alter- 



nate, stiff) broad-lanceolate, tapering to the base ; panicle ter- 



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in the hot months, but if no wine be drank with it, the Mango is 

 apt" to throw out boils, at least with new comers, which are, how- 



minal, erect, tomentose, glaucous ; flowers monandrous ; petaia 



ever, conducive to health. 



In Europe we have only the unripe 

 There are numerous varieties of 



erect ; fruit oblong. Tj 



Native of Sumatra. Corolla pur; 



Retsius 



fruit brought over in pickle. 



the Mango, chiefly differing in the size, colour, flavour, and 

 figure of the fruit, as apples and pears do in Europe, 

 says, there are numerous species, the number of stamens being 

 double in some, the racemes in others compound; the fruit kid- 

 ney-shaped, globular, fleshy or almost juiceless. The fruit of 



pie within, but paler without. Fruit oblong-ovate, of a pale-rea 



Sandy 



colour. 



Grey Mango. Tree 60 feet. 



Cult. This IS a fine genus of tropical fruit trees 

 loam, or a mixture of loam and peat, is the best soil for tne^. 

 Fresh seed brou<:^ht from the places of their natural gro^^f? 



the finest Mangos have a rich sweet-perfumed flavour, accom- will vegetate freely. The species may also be increased by 



panied by a grateful acidity. pened cuttings. In tropical countries, the best varieties are pf 



Indian or Common Mango. Fl. Ju. Sep. Clt. 1690. Tr. 50 ft. served by grafting, as apples are with us. 



2 M. macroca'rpa (Blum, bijdr. 1158.) leaves scattered on 





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long stalks, elonjrated, linear-lanceolate ; 

 Native of Java. 



fruit large. 



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VI. BUCHANA^NIA (in honour of Francis Hamilton, M-D. 



Long-fruited Mango-tree 



Tree 60 feet. 



3 M. fce'tida (Lour. fl. cochin. 160.) leaves cunoated, lan- 

 ceolate, acute, stiff, on short stalks : panicles of flowers erect, 

 terminal, spreading ; corolla funnel-shaped, with the segmeuts at 

 length, reflexed; drupe heart-shaped, downy. Tj . S. Native 

 of Cochin-china, Java, and the Moluccas. Rumph. amb. 1. t. 

 28. Leaves about the size of those of the common mango, on 

 Jong petioles, and scattered. Flowers red, disposed in terminal shorter thaa the petals. 



formerly Buchanan, of Leny in Scotland, an excellent botani^^ 

 and great traveller in the East ; formerly superintendent of 

 botanical garden at Calcutta). Roxb. hort. beng. p. 33. -L'' J 

 prod. 2. p. G3, — Launzan, Buch. in asiat. res. 5. p. 123.-^ 

 Buchanania and Cambessedea, Kunth. gen. tereb. p. 4 and 0. 



Lin. syst. Decdndria, Pentagyma. Flowers hermaphrodi _ 

 Calyx 5-cleft, rarely 3-4-cleft, obtuse. Petals 5, inserted unu^^ 

 the disk, oblong, revolute, imbricate in aestivation. Stamens^ 



Disk furnished with 10 crenaturc^ 



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