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M. LoxGiTES, Griff, IIT. Swamp forests in Pegu and Tcna?scrim. 



Thayet-thyt-ui (Kurz). 



Panicles and the 3-6 lines lona; pedicels very slender, glabrescent or almost 

 glabrous. Petals linear-subulate. The lateral nerves very lliiu. 



* JI. IxDicA, L. E.T. All over Burma and the Andamans, 



ip],.,..^,(. also cultivated. 



Panicles stout. Pedicels .short and thick. Petals yellow, streaked red, hardly 

 2 lines long. Disk fleshy, o-lobed. Drupes obtuse, 3—1 inches long. 



Wood coarse, pale-coloured, and said to decay under exposure to wet, but strong 

 and very useful for common purposes. It is said to hold a nail more firmly than any 

 other. The darker heartwood of old trees sometimes yields selected planks of some 

 excellence. The fruit of the mango is, all over the East Indies, what the apple 

 is in Europe. 



M. CALOXEFEA, Kz. E.T. Pcgu Range. 



Panicles stout. Petals hardly 2 lines long. Disk 5-iobed. Drupes 1-2 inches 

 long, blunt. Xet-venation minute and strongly prominent on both sides. 



X X I'nnich-s and calij.v perfecihj (jlahrouK. 



M. SYLVATICA, Roxb. E.T. T. forests of llartaban, where rare. 



Hseng-neng-thayet (Kur;;}. 



Panicles stout. Pedicels 3--1 lines long, thick. Petals white, about 3 lines long. 

 Disk cup-shaped. Drupes acuminate. 



*"* Petalu and atamena connate with the lu.ie of the stalk-like turns, rartlij the lat to- 

 wanting altogether. 



M. F(KTIDA, Lour. E.T. Southern Tena.sscrim, cultivated (y/f/t- Mason). 



La-mot (Kurz). Horse Mango (Mason). 



Leaves coriaceous and .shining, almost polished beneath. Flesh of drupe soapy. 



Dr. Mason says, " This is a large mango cultivate<l at Mergui, and is quite 

 a favourite with the natives. It has an odour resembling the ' dorian,' and, like that, 

 has been introduced Irora the Straits." 



SroXDIE.K. 

 Ovarg 2-b-cell-d. Orules pendulous. Leaves pinnate. 



SroxDiAs, Linnims. 



Eloivers polygamous. Stamens 8 or 10. Styles 4 or ,'>, free at the summit. 



S. MANGIFEEA, Willd. All ovcr liurma up to 3000 feet. 



/S. pinnata, Kz. 



Gwe (Kurz). 



There are two varieties of this, the one with leaflets and drupes as big as a duck's 

 egg, the other with these parts only half the size, but ditiering in no other respects. 

 "Wood wortliless (Kurz). 



DriACONTOMELrsi, Blume. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Stamens 10. Stgles 5, thick, connate at their summits, 

 and resembling ovaries. 



D. MAXGiFEUUM, Bl. T. forcsts of the Andamans. 



I), sylrestrc, Bl. 

 D. puleendum, Miq. 



This Order yields some useful timbers, fruits, fragrant gums and varnishes. 

 Foremost among the fruits stands the Mango, Mangifera Indiea, which in the Ea.st 

 takes the part of the apple in Europe, as a fruit in universal use and esteem. The 



