644 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. = -Mangifera, 
ceedingly 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 cracking noise; emitting a smell exceeding= 
ly like that of Cashew nuts when roasting. Jt softens in the 
mouth, and adheres to the teeth. 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, 
3. M. sylvatica, R. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolar, glossy, Panicles terminal. 
Flowers monandrous. Drupe obliquely conic, with the point- 
ed apex turned one side. 
-Lukshmee am, the vernacular name in Silhet ; on the moun- 
tains adjoining to that district it grows to be a tall tree of 
great size. Flowering time October ; the fruit ripens in Fe- 
bruary and March, and is eaten by the natives, though by no 
. means so palatable as even a bad domestic mango, they alse 
dry them and keep them for medicinal purposes. 
Leaves as in the common cultivated sorts, alternate, peti- 
oled, lanceolar, entire and smooth; from six to eight inches 
long, by one and a half or two broad, Panicles terminal, much 
larger than in the domestic sorts, and with the numerous ra~ 
mifications more erect and slender, Flowers very numerous, 
small, white, with a faint shade of pink ; they are more com- 
pletely monandrous than any of the cultivated sorts. Calyx 
five-leaved, many times shorter than the corols, Petals five, 
linear, spreading, and finally becoming somewhat twisted and 
revolute. MNectary a short, solid, turbinate, slightly groov- 
__ ed, villous receptacle for the germ to rest on. In the domestic 
sorts it is composed of five distinct glands, which embrace 
the base of the germ. Filament single, inserted into the pot 
of the nectary, incurved, length of the pistillum, Anther oval. 
? Germ elevated on the RE nectary or receptacle, 
“unequally oval, smooth, one-celled ; ovulum single, attached 
at side ‘of the. eal} from whence the style rises, and_-most 
