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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



MAN 



Mangifera; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Mono- 

 gynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five- 

 parted; divisions lanceolate. Corolla: petals five, lanceolate, 

 longer than the calix. Stamina : filamenta five, awl-shaped, 

 spreading, the length of the corolla; anthcrse subcordate. 

 Pistil : germen roundish ; style filiform, the length of the 

 calix; stigma simple. Pericarp: drupe kidney-form, oblong, 

 gibbous, compressed. Seed: kernel oblong, compressed, 

 lanuginose. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. Corolla: five- 

 petalled. Drupe: kidney-form. The species are, 



1. Mangifera Indica; Mango Tree. Leaves simple; flowers 

 five-stamined. The wood of this large spreading tree is brown, 

 brittle, and used only for indifferent works. The bark be- 

 comes rugged by age. The leaves are seven or eight inches 

 long, and two or more broad, of a shining green, and a 

 sweet resinous smell, on short petioles, growing in bunches 

 at the extremity of the branches. The flowers are produced 

 in loose bunches at the end of the branches. The fruit, 

 when fully ripe, is yellow and reddish, replete with a fine 

 agreeable juice : some are full of fibres, and the juice rmis 

 out of these on cutting, or with a little handling ; but those 

 which have few or no fibres are much the finest; they cut 

 like an apple, but are more juicy ; and some are as big as a 

 large man's fist. It is a very wholesome fruit, and, excepting 

 the finest pine-apples, is the best fruit in India ; where 

 gentlemen eat little other fruit in the hot months. When no 

 wine is drank with it, the Mango is apt to throw out trouble- 

 some boils, especially with new comers ; but even those 

 boils are conducive to health. In Europe we have only the 

 unripe fruit brought over in pickle. Loureiro remarks, that 

 there are many varieties, differing chiefly in the figure, size, 

 colour, and taste of the fruit ; as apples and pears do in 

 Europe. Native of India, the Brazils, Cochin-china, Pegu, 

 &c. The readiest method to obtain plants of Mango in 

 Europe is, to set a quantity of nuts in a tub of earth, in the 

 country where they grow naturally ; and when the plants are 

 grown a foot high, to ship them, placing a covering over 

 them, to defend them from the spray of the sea, being very 

 careful not to water them too much in the passage. When 

 the ship arrives in a cold climate, they should be screened 

 from the cold. It will not thrive in the tan-pit : set the 

 plants therefore in pots filled with light kitchen-garden earth, 

 and place them in a dry-stove; where, in warm weather, 

 they should have fresh air daily; and in winter the air 

 should be kept up to temperate, as marked on the thermo- 

 meter. It may afterwards be propagated from cuttings. 



2. Mangifera Pinnata ; Wing-leaved Mango Tree. Leaves 

 pinnate; flowers ten-stamined. Native of the East Indies. 



3. Mangifera Foetida ; Stinking Mango Tree. Racemes 

 elongated; petals entire and reflex; drupe cordate, pubescent. 

 This large tree has ascending branches, and a rugged bark. 

 The wood, though not very good, is used for floors; and lasts 

 very well, if it be soaked a considerable time in muddy water. 

 Native of the East Indies and Cochin-china. 



Mango Tree. See Mangifera. 



Manisuris ; a genus of the class Polygamia, order Monoe- 

 c ia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Hermaphrodite flowers: in 

 the adverse side of the flexuose jointed spike, imbricate, alter- 

 nate, each immersed in each joint, which is excavated on one 

 side. Calix: glume one-flowered, two-valved ; outer valve 

 larger, coriaceous, roundish, rugged in the middle, emargi- 

 nate or entire at the top and sides ; inner smaller, broad lan- 

 ceolate, membranaceous, pressed close to the outer. Corolla: 

 glume two-valved, membranaceous, thin, diaphanous, smaller 

 than the calix, included; the outer with its margins embracing 

 the inner, which is smaller ; nectary a membranous scale. 



Stamina: filamenta three, filiform, standing out; antherse 

 oblong, incumbent. Pistil: germen ovate; styles two, short, 

 filiform ; stigmas oblong, bearded, spreading, standing out 

 on both sides. Pericarp : none. Calix : cherishing the seed ; 

 Seed: single, ovate. Male Flowers: marginal, alternate, in 

 the back of the spike on each side. Calix: glume one-flowered, 

 roundish, two-valved; valves parallel, ovate-lanceolate, blunt, 

 striated, leathery, augmented by a membrane, almost equal. 

 Corolla : glume two-valved, membranaceous, thin, almost the 

 size of the calix ; outer valve ovate, blunt, convolute ; inner 

 lanceolate, plaited, scarcely longer; nectary a membranous 

 scale. Stamina: filamenta three, very short, or none; an- 

 therse as in the hermaphrodites. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Hermaphrodite Calix: glume two-valved, one-flowered; outer 

 valve emarginate at the top and sides. Corolla : less than the 

 oalix. Stamina: three. Style: bitid. Male, as in the her- 

 maphrodites, but with the flowers in the lower side of the 

 same spike, standing out more. The species are, 



1. Manisuris Myuris ; Mousetail Scaly Grass. Spikes late- 

 ral ; outer valves flat, ovate-emarginate at the top and sides; 

 culm ascending. Native of the East Indies. 



2. Manisuris Granularis ; Granulated Scaly Grass. Spikes 

 lateral ; outer valves orbicular, callous, dotted ; sheaths 

 hairy ; culm erect. Native of Jamaica. 



Manna Ash. See Fraxinus Rotvndifolia. 



Manulea; a genus of the class Didynamia, order Angio- 

 spermia. GENE-RIG CHARACTER. Calix: perianth five- 

 parted; leaflets linear, erect, equal, permanent. Corolla: 

 one-petalled, irregular; tube cylindric, with the throat rather 

 wider; border five-parted, awl-shaped, spreading; the four 

 upper divisions more connected at the base, the lowest reflex. 

 Stamina : filamenta four, very short ; antheree, the two upper 

 in the throat, the two lower somewhat oblong, within the tube. 

 Pistil: germen superior, roundish; style filiform, the length 

 of the lower stamina ; stigma simple. Pericarp : capsule 

 ovate, the length of the calix, two-celled, two-valved ; the 

 valves, when ripe, semibifid; partition doubled, by the inflex 

 margins of the valves. Seeds : very many, small ; receptacle 

 oblong, compressed, in the axis of the capsule. ESSENTIAL 

 CHARACTER. Calix: five-parted. Corolla: with a five- 

 parted, awl-shaped border ; the four upper segments more 

 connected. Capsule: two-celled, many-seeded. The spe- 

 cies are, 



1. Manulea Cheiranthus. Leaves naked; stems almost 

 leafless; pedicels alternate, one-flowered. An annual shrub: 

 corollas deep yellow. Native of the Cape. 



2. Manulea Tomontosa. Leaves tomentose ; stems leafy ; 

 peduncles many-flowered. Root biennial; stem eighteen 

 inches high, woolly. The variety of pleasant colours so 

 conspicuous in the flowers, renders this a very desirable 

 plant; the flowers are in a long thyrse, first greenish-yellow, 

 finally a deep orange. Native of the Cape. 



3. Manulea Microphylla. Leaves ovate, in bundles, smooth, 

 entire. Native of the Cape. 



4. Manulea Integrifolia. Leaves ovate, scattered, smooth, 

 entire. Native of the Cape. 



5. Manulea Heterophylla. Leaves linear, scattered, villose, 

 entire, or toothed. Native of the Cape. 



6. Manulea Ccerulea. Leaves linear, opposite, tomentose, 

 toothed ; flowers racemed. Native of the Cape. 



7. Manulea Cuneifolia. Leaves elliptically ovate, smooth, 

 toothed ; spikes oblong. Native of the Cape. 



8. Manulea Capillaris. Stem-leaves obovate, smooth, tooth- 

 ed ; of the branches, linear ; spikes ovate. Native of the 

 Cape. 



9. Manulea Plantaginea. Leaves ovate, somewhat toothed, 



