268 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



UXammea Americana, Linne. 



Tropical America. This tree is cultivated in Jamaica up to 

 3000 feet [Fawcett]. Fruit large ; the pulp, except the most outer 

 and most inner, edible. 



JKangrifera Indica. 



The Mango. South-Asia. An ev.ergreen very shady tree, reach- 

 ing 70 feet in height. Can be made to bear its delicious fruit in 

 warm and humid forest-regions to sub-tropic zones. In the Hima- 

 layas its culture for fruit ascends to 3,500 feet just outside the 

 tropics. At Port Curtis, barely within the tropics, it bears copiously 

 [Edgar]. Mango-fruits are now already candied in Queensland 

 [Prof. Shelton], there also made into jelly and marmalade. 

 Mr. W. Kelleway succeeded in fruiting the Mango even as far 

 south as the Richmond-River, the trees from seeds coming there 

 into bearing within five years. At Bangalore Mangoes up to the 

 weight of 3 Ibs. have been obtained. 



UXaoutia Puya, Weddell. 



India, on mountains up to 4,000 feet. It is taller than Boehme- 

 ria nivea, and furnishes a similar fibre, which however is not so easily 

 separated. This shrub belongs to a tribe of the Nettle-order not 

 possessing burning acridity. None of the true nettles, such as the 

 Girardinias, nor allied stinging plants, have been recommended in 

 this index, although an exquisite fibre is derived from some, as the 

 writer wishes to guard against the introduction of any burning* 

 species, which might possibly become disseminated in a mischiev- 

 ous manner, and then probably could not again be suppressed. 



Manihot Aipi, Pohl.* 



The Sweet Cassava. Tropical South-America, but traced as far 



. south as the Parana- River. The root is reddish and harmless ; it 

 can therefore be used as a culinary esculent, without any prepara- 

 tion further than boiling, while its starch is also available for 

 tapioca ; it attains exceptionally a length of 2 feet. It is a some- 

 what woody plant, several feet high, and too important to be left 

 altogether unnoticed on this occasion, although we have no evidence 

 that it will be productive in a temperate clime. Aipi has ligneous 

 tough fibres, stretching along the axis of the tubers, while generally 

 the roots of M. utilissima are free from this central woody 

 substance. Both are thriving as far south as Moreton-Bay. 



Manihot Glazioui, J. Mueller.* 



A native of Ceara, a coast-district of Brazil, in latitude 4, pos- 

 sessing a climate arid for a considerable part of the year. This 

 tree is evidently of a comparatively hardy character, and adapts 

 itself readily to the exigencies of culture [D. Morris J. Thrives 

 well as far south as Durban in Natal [J. M. Wood] and More ton- 



