XLV". ANACARDIACE'E. 273 



with a few scattered hairs above, softly pubescent beneath ; terminal 

 leaflet sessile or shortly p ^ioUiled, mucb larger than the Literal ones, 

 reachiiii^ l-lj in. long; lateral leaflets sessile, sometimes very small. 

 Flowers in tLn-minal and axillary braached pubescent panicles ; pedicels 

 short; bracts minute, linear, pubescent. Calyx pubescent outside, much 

 shorter than the petals ; lobes ovate. Petals yV in. long, oblong, sub- 

 acute, glabrous. Disk 5-lobed, the lobes often notched. Drupes ^-i in. 

 in diaai., subglobose, brown, glabrous, shining. Engler, in DC. Monogr. 

 Phau. V. 4, p. 4-20. Rhus mi/sor.'nsis, Hook. f. in El. B. I. v. '2, p. y ; 

 Aitch. Pb. & Sind PL p. 35 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 01 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 272; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. fi, 

 part 1, p. 497. — Flowers : June. Vern". Ainani. 



Deccan : Ghat between Wai and Wafchar, Cooke I ; hills near Poona, Woodrow •' 

 Chattarsinghi hill near Poona, Kanitkarl S. M. Coitstry : coiniiion iu the Dharwar 

 forests, Tiilhof. Sind: on tlie hills, S/op/^-*', 475 I — Di.strir. India generally. 



G-rahani states that the bark is used for tanning, and in Rijputana, where theslirub is 

 cnin'non, it is largely employed for this purpose and is said to give a fine brown color 

 to leather. — See VVatr, Diet. Eeoii. Prod. 1. c. 



2. MANGIFERA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple, entire, coriaceous. Flowers 

 small, polygamous, in terminal panicles. Calyx 4-5-partite ; segments 

 imbricate, deciduous. Petals 4-5, free or adnate to the disk, 

 imbricate ; nerves thickened, sometimes ending in excrescences. 

 iStamens 1-5, inserted just within the disk or on it, 1 usually more 

 perfect and much longer than the others, the others with imperfect or 

 smaller anthers, or reduced to teeth, or absent. Ovary sessile, 1-celled, 

 oblique ; ovule pendulous, funicle basal or inserted on the side of the 

 cell above its base (rarely horizontal). Drupe large, fleshy ; stone 

 conipressed, fibrous. Seed large, compressed ; testa papery ; cotyledons 

 plano-convex, often unequal and lobed. — Distrib. Tropical Asia, chiefly 

 Malaya ; species about 30. 



1. Mangifera indica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 200. A large 

 spreading evergreen tree reaching 50 ft. in height, all parts glabrous 

 except the inflorescence. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 

 coriaceous, 5-10 by l|^-3 in., oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 acuminate or subobtuse, shining, entire, the margins often undulate, base 

 narrowed ; petioles ^-"2.^ in. long. Flowers monoecious, 1 in. long, witli 

 a somewhat disagreeable odor, arranged in large many-flowered pubescent 

 panicles longer than the leaves ; pedicels short, thick ; bracteoles ovate, 

 small. Sepals ovate, concave, pubescent outside, shorter than the petals. 

 Petals oblong, subacute, reflexed, glabrous, with 3 sti'ong orange-colored 

 ridges on the inner face. Disk fleshy, 5-lobed. Stamen 1 ; filament 

 subulate ; anther purple. Ovary glabrous. Drupes large, flesh}', 

 obliquely pyriform or subovoid, subcompressed, 3-8 in, long ; stone 

 compressed, fibrous, very hard. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 13 ; Grab. Cat. p. 41 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs, p. 51 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 61 ; Woodr. in Journ. Boudi. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1897) p. 273 ; Engler, in DC. Monogr. v. 4, p. 198 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 146. — Flowers : Jan. -Feb. Vern. A'mh. 



The well-known Mango tree, cultivated throughout India and in the Tropics 

 generally. It is said to be wild iu the Western Peninsula from Khandesh southward.s, 

 but in the case of a tree so widely cultivated as is tlie Mango, the fruit of' which is 

 eaten largely by the natives and its stones dropped eveiywiiere throughout the jungles, 



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