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milky juice, wliicli flows copiously from every part of tlie tree, 

 leaves an indelible stain on the clothes, and has been made use 

 of as an ink to mark linens. The concrete gum is transparent, 

 and not inferior to Gum Arabic, for which it is generally em- 

 ployed as a substitute. 



Mangifera, Mango. 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 5-partite, deciduous. 

 Petals 5. Stamens 6', four of which are most fre- 

 quently emasculate. Style 1. Drupe berried, sub- 

 compressed, with the nucleus crinite with woody 

 fibres, evalvular : seed ovato-oblong; embryo erect; 

 cotyledons fleshy ; radicle short. — De Cand. 



Trees, natives of the East Indies : leaves entire, penninerved ; 

 panicles terminal ; fruit edible. 



Named, from Manga or 3Ianghos, the vernacular name of the 

 fruit, and fero to bear. 



1. Magnifera Indica. Common Mango. 



Leaves oblongo-lanceolate petiolate, panicles erect, 

 petals at the apex patulous, only one stamen fertile, 

 drupe subreniform glabrous. 



Manga domestica, Riimph. Amb. I. 93. t, 25, — Gcertn. de 

 Fruct. II. t. 100. — Mao, s. Man, s. Manglios, Rheed. 3Ial. IV. 

 t. 1. and 2. — Mangifera Indica, Lam. III. 138. 



HAB. Common every where. 



FL. January, February; rarely October. 



A tree, about 30-40 feet in height, of a spreading rounded 

 form, with a dense foliage, forming a beautiful ornament to 

 lawn or park. The panicle of flowers is large, branched, and 

 divaricating: flowers somewhat fragrant, very numerous, crowded, 

 only a very few coming to perfection. 



This valuable tree was first introduced into this Island in 

 June 1782, being among a number of valuable plants taken in 

 a French vessel, bound from the East Indies to St Domingo, 

 by Captain Marshall of His Majesty's Ship Flora, attached to 

 Lord Rodney's squadron. They were first cultivated in the 

 garden of H. East, Esq. afterwards the public Botanic garden, 

 St Andrews. 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 

 known by the names of No. 11, and No. 32. The No. 11. is 

 a flat-sided green fruit, of a delicious aroma, and an agreeable 

 subacid taste. The No. 32 resembles it in form and fragrance, but 



