ANACARDIACEAE. 183 
MANGIFERA. Mango. 
(Family Anacardiaceae). 
Glabrous trees with milky or 
gummy sap: evergreen. Twigs 
moderate, somewhat corrugated: 
pith relatively large, continuous, 
brownish. Buds solitary, sessile, 
depressed-ellipsoid, indistinctly 2- 
scaled, the terminal conical. Leaf- 
sears. alternate, more crowded 
near the end of the _ season’s 
growth, low, half-round to nearly 
elliptical, somewhat concave at 
top: bundle-traces about 9: sti- 
pule-scars lacking. Leaves sim- 
ple, entire, petioled. 
A striking feature of the ma- 
ture mango is its long clusters of 
large fruits, Though a tropical 
tree, it is coming into consider- 
able cultivation in subtropical 
parts of the United States, in 
carefully selected varieties. 
The mango is one of the rather few really good exclu- 
sively tropical fruits, of most of which, as a lady who had 
learned to know them through many years of experience once 
said, it is nearly or quite true that each new kind puts one 
in mind of a new toilet soap. To millions of persons living 
within the tropics this fruit is said truthfully to be of greater 
importance than the apple is to us. 
Leaves lance-oblong, large (5x20 cm.). M. indica. 
