Anacardiaceae. 



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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- 

 scars 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. 





