when they are boiled in the steam of water, and used as an article 
of diet. The wood is of a dull grey colour, porous, yet pretty 
durable if kept dry, but it soon decays if exposed to wet. In 
very large old trees it acquires a light chocolate-colour towards 
the centre of the trunk and larger branches, and becomes hard, 
close-grained, and much more durable. From wounds made in the 
bark there issues a soft, reddish-brown gum-resin, which age 
hardens, and renders exceedingly like Bdellium. Laid on the 
point of a knife and held in the flame of a candle, it readily 
melts, catches flame, and burns with a crackling noise, emitting 
a smell resembling that of Cashew-nuts when roasting. Its 
taste is slightly bitter, with some degree of pungency. It 
dissolves almost entirely in spirits, and in a great measure in 
water: both solutions are milky, with a small tinge of brown.” 
The next best account of the Mango we find given by our 
friend Dr. M‘Fadyen, in his Flora of Jamaica; for, as may be 
supposed, so highly prized a fruit has been introduced to almost 
all tropical European colonies ; though to the West Indies 
(Jamaica) not till the year 1782, and then by accident, 
among a number of valuable plants taken in a French vessel 
from the East Indies on its way to St. Domingo. They were 
first cultivated in the garden of H. East, Esq., which afterwards 
became the Botanic Garden, St. Andrews, and there being a 
‘great number of plants producing several varieties of the fruit, 
they were regularly numbered. Hence, two of the most esteemed 
sorts have since come to be generally known by the name of 
No. 11 and No. 32, No. 11 being a flat-sided green fruit, of a de- 
licious aroma and an agreeable subacid taste. The No. 32 (cor- 
responding, we believe, with our plant here figured, the Wuldah 
of the East Indies) resembles it in form and fragrance ; it is of a 
yellow colour, and possesses a more luscious sweetness. It is 
now the most common of West Indian fruit-trees, very pro- 
ductiye, and not only sought after by man, but by all the 
domestic animals. It fattens hogs and horned ’stock, and to 
horses will supply, in a great measure, the place of corn. The 
finer varieties are considered by many not inferior to the Pine-— 
apple. They are very wholesome ; and it is supposed their slightly 
terebinthine taste prevents the generating of worms. They are 
eaten plain, or sliced, with wine, sugar, and nutmeg. <A very 
palatable spirit is obtained from the juice of the fruit and vinegar. 
In India the best kinds’ are increased by layers or grafting by 
approach.— With us its flowering-season is the early spring, and 
the fruit ripens in October and November. 
_ Descr. Fine as our largest Mango-tree is (thirteen feet high), it 
is a dwarf compared with its ordinary size in the tropics. M‘Fadyen 
speaks of the trunks being thirty to forty feet high,and Dr. Wallich 
