642 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Mangifera. 
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have not yet met with any description which deserves the: 
hame, ‘ 
It is universally cultivated all over India, and all the 
warmer parts of Asia. Is generally raised from seed, though 
sometimes by layers, or grafting by approach, which are the 
only methods of certainly continuing a good sort, probably 
of improving them. The stones must be sown soon after 
they are taken from the fruit, otherwise they do not vege- 
tate, but there is no depending on the quality of the fruit so 
raised, The seed of a very superior sort will produce fruit _ 
of a bad kind ; and vice versa, hence such an infinite variety. 
Colonel Kyd in Bengal, and Dr. Anderson at Madras, have 
lately begun to graft by approach ; which will no doubt be a 
means of improving this excellent fruit, Flowering time Ja- 
nuary, February, and March; the fruit is ripe im May, June, 
and July. 
The ‘tree grows to be of a very great size, with an crock 
trunk, covered with dark-coloured, scabrous, cracked bark ; 
(large old trees of from ten to fifteen feet in circumference are 
meant.*) Branches very numerous, the lower ones spreading 
horizontally to a great extent, the upper ones gradually as- 
cending till they become nearly erect in the centre. Leaves 
alternate, petioled, about the extremities of the young shoots, 
approximated, reclined, lanceolar, entire, often a little waved 
at the margins, firm, smooth, shining; generally from six to 
twelve inches long, and from two to three broad. Petioles 
round, ‘smooth, from one to two inches long, thickish at the 
base, Stipules none. Panicles terminal, large, erect, or as- 
cending, rigid, a little downy, often tinged with red. Pedi- 
cels shart, thick, rigid. Bractes oval, concave,a little downy. 
Flowers small, yellow, with some stripes of red near the base 
of the petals, many perfect male flowers are often found mix-— 
ed with the hermaphrodite ones throughout the panicle, 
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~~ A grove a of that ping. it bolero feo and 8 met — sight’ 
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