MA Y.] HOT-HOUSE OF REPOTTING, &c. 245 



The part taken is the inside of the bark when the tree 

 is from five to eighteen years old. The leaves are 

 three-nerved, ovate, oblong; nerves vanishing towards 

 the point, bright green above, pale beneath, with whit- 

 ish veins. This plant ought to be kept in the warmest 

 part of the Hot-house. C. cassia, is frequently given 

 under the former name, but when compared may be 

 easily detected by the leaves being more lanceolate, 

 and a little pubescent. They both make handsome 

 plants, but require great heat. Drain the pots well of 

 the delicate sorts. 



Magnifera, Mango tree. There are two species. 

 M. indica is in our collections, and bears a fruit which 

 is so highly esteemed in the East Indies, as to be con- 

 sidered preferable to any other except very fine pine 

 apples. The leaves are lanceolate, and from six to 

 eight inches long, and two or more broad. The 

 flowers are produced in loose bunches at the end of 

 the branches, but of no beauty, and have to be artifi- 

 cially impregnated, or it will scarcely produce fruit. 

 The shell is kidney-shaped, and of a leathery, crusta- 

 ceous substance. They contain one seed, and in their 

 indigenous state are more juicy than an apple. Drain 

 the pots well, as the roots are apt to get sodden from 

 moisture. The other species goes under the name of 

 oppositifolia, but we question if it is not only a variety, 

 for it has every character of the one just described. 



Meldstoma, was once an extensive genus, on which 

 the natural order Melastomacece is founded ; but is now 

 much divided into other genera contained in the natural 

 tribe Micomece. There are about thirteen species re- 



