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is of a yellow colour, and possesses a more luscious sweetness. 

 Besides these, the following varieties may be noticed: 1. The 

 Carrot Mango, a large fruit, with the pulp hard, and in taste, 

 somewhat resembling the root which gives it its designation. 2. 

 The Papaw Mango, of the same size with the last, but the pulp 

 is juicy, and to the taste a luscious sweet. 3. Yellow kidney- 

 shaped Mango, a very good fruit, 4. Green kidney-shaped 

 Mango, a fruit of a luscious sweetness. 5. Tie-tie Mango ; so 

 named from the branches of the peduncle being long, and sup- 

 porting the fruit like a bunch of onions ; rather an inferior fruit. 

 6. Plum Mango ; a small variety of the fruit and scarcely eat- 

 able. 7. The Parrot Mango, an oval plump fruit, of a green 

 colour with an erubescent tinge when ripe, juicy, with a some- 

 what turpentine flavour, subject to be infested with maggots. 

 8. The hard or turpentine Mango, resembling the last, but of 

 a yellow colour, with the pulp hard, and only fit for stock. 9. 

 The finger Mango ; a long fruit resembling in shape the human 

 finger, of no value. 10. The dwarf Mango; growing in the 

 upper mountains, size of a small plum, of no account as a fruit. 



Although the Mango is but of recent introduction, it is now 

 the most common of our fruit-trees. It is very productive, 

 and is eagerly sought after by almost all our domestic animals. 

 It fattens hogs and horned stock, and to horses, will supply, 

 in a great measure, the place of corn. As a fruit, the finer 

 varieties, are esteemed by many as not inferior to the pine 

 apple. They are very wholesome, and it is supposed, that the 

 slight terebinthinate taste, which they all more or less possess, 

 prevents the generation of worms. They are eaten plain, or 

 sliced, with wine, sugar, and nutmeg ; or they may be boiled ; or 

 different preserves may be prepared from them. A very palat- 

 able spirit may be obtained, from the juice of the fruit : by 

 fermentation, in the usual manner, or vinegar, of rather an 

 inferior quality, may be procured. In the unripe state they 

 form a very excellent pickle, and constitute an ingredient of tarts. 



The wood is light and friable, and is of little use except as 

 fuel. It is much esteemed in India, where it is employed, 

 mixed with sandal-wood, in burning the bodies of persons of 

 distinction. 



A gum, having some resemblance to Gum Tragacanth. may 

 be obtained by wounding the bark of the stem or large branches. 



This tree is raised from seed, and bears in the course of four 

 or five years. In order to obtain a good variety, the only plan 

 is to employ the seed of the desired sort; although this is 

 attended with uncertainty. All attempts at grafting have failed, 

 from the quantity of Gum-resin with which the bark abounds. 



III. COMOCLADIA. 



Flowers hermaphrodite or monrecious. Calyx 3-4- 



