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ce 
says they are from ten to fifteen feet in circumference; “a 
grove of that size,’ says Dr. Wallich, “is before my door.” 
Branches numerous, more or less spreading. Leaves copious, 
alternate, petiolate, chiefly from the extremities of the young 
shoots, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, six or eight inches and more 
long, firm, almost coriaceous, entire, penninerved, bluish-green, 
paler beneath: petioles one to two inches long, rounded, swollen 
at the base. Panicles copious,* terminal; main stalks furrowed 
and, as well as the patent branches, stout, tinged with red. 
Bracteas small. Flowers small. Calyx deeply five-cleft, downy, 
spreading. Petals ovate, reflexed, pale yellow, with three orange- 
coloured elevated ridges, forming a crest below the middle of the 
disk ; these petals arising from a large fleshy five-lobed disk 
which surrounds the ovary. Stamens five, of which four are 
small and abortive, the third perfect : filaments subulate : anthers 
ovate, purple-red. Ovary subglobose, oblique, compressed, gla- 
brous: s¢yle subulate, as long as the ovary. Stigma obtuse. 
Of the numerous flowers, very few swell and become fruit. 
Fruit a drupe as large as a goose’s egg, broadly and obliquely 
ovate, subreniform, compressed, dull orange-colour, the remains 
of the style forming a little point below the apex. Vu¢ obliquely 
oval, compressed, large, clothed with coarser filaments, to which 
the juicy flesh adheres pertinaciously. Seed large, reniform. 
Cotyledons very large, fleshy: radicle small. W. J. H. 
Curr. The fruit of this fine East Indian tree being in high 
estimation, it has been introduced into the West Indies and the 
tropical parts of America, where it is now much grown, and 
in these countries may be considered as taking the place of the 
Peach of the temperate zone. . Like all highly-cultivated fruits, 
the Mango has its varieties, varying in size and quality, some 
being large, fleshy, and fine-flavoured, while others are compared 
to a mouthful of tow soaked in turpentine. In the Calcutta 
Botanic Garden the variety called Muddah being considered by 
Dr. Wallich as one of the best, numbers of grafted plants of 
it have been received by us at various times from thence; 
for, like other cultivated fruit-trees, the best sorts can only be 
perpetuated and increased by grafting, or rather by szarching, 
on stocks raised from seeds. Many of the plants, however, have 
died shortly after their arrival in this country. Whether this is 
owing to the nature of the stocks or to the mode of grafting, is 
uncertain, but it does not appear to be through want of care m 
* The ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ of this day, April 6th, 1850, gives the number 
of heads or panicles of flowers on a plant at Sir George Staunton’s, Leigh Park, 
namely, 108: the number of flowers on each panicle is on an average 2,100, and the 
whole number of flowers was estimated at a quarter of a million, of which (as is 
usual even in tropical countries) only a very few ripen fruit. This year our tree 
has unquestionably produced an even much greater number of panicles. 
