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pelago. It is probable that some of the groups or races recog- 

 nized as horticulturally distinct represent other species than 

 M. indica, or hybrids. A species which has been regarded 

 particularly as one of the ancestors of cultivated forms is M. 

 laurina. 



About forty species of the genus Mangifera are recognized 

 by botanists, most of them coming from the Malayan region. 

 Several are cultivated for their fruits, although on a limited 

 scale. Some of them are perhaps not distinct from M . indica, 

 as at present recognized. The following species merit con- 

 sideration in connection with mango culture (the notes are 

 based mainly on Hooker's Flora of British India and Blume's 

 Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum) : 



Mangifera altissima, Blanco. PAHUTAN. Indigenous to the Philip- 

 pine Islands. Fruit large, closely resembling that of the mango, edible. 



M. ccesia, Jack. BINJAI. Wild and cultivated in Malacca, 

 Sumatra, and Java. Fruit oblong-obovate, reddish white in color, 

 not of good quality. 



M. fcetida, Lour. BACHANG. AMBATJANG. Distributed through- 

 out the Malay Archipelago. Fruit variable in form, not compressed, 

 green, with yellow flesh of disagreeable odor. Not esteemed, although 

 sometimes eaten. 



M. laurina, Blume. MANGA MONJET, MANGA PARI, etc. Wild and 

 cultivated in the Malay Archipelago. Fruit elliptic-oblique, the size 

 of a plum. Blume describes numerous varieties grown in Java and 

 other islands. Certainly very close to M. indica. 



M. odorata, Griff. KUWINI. BUMBUM. Wild in Malacca, cul- 

 tivated in Java. Fruit oblong, yellowish green, the flesh yellow, 

 sweet, with no turpentine flavor. "Often planted by the natives, who 

 eat the fruit." 



M. sylvatica, Roxb. Tropical Nipal, Sikkim Himalaya, and the 

 Khasia mountains of India ; Andaman Islands. The foliage is like that 

 of the common mango ; the fruit, ovoid, beaked, differs only slightly 

 from that of M . indica. 



M. verticillata, Rob. BAUNO. Wild in the southern Philippine 

 Islands. Fruit " very juicy, rich, subacid, quite aromatic, of excellent 

 flavor." 



M. zeylanica, Hook. f. Wild in Ceylon. Closely resembles M. 

 indica, but is considered by Hooker to differ in habit and foliage, and 

 in the character of the flowers. Fruit said to be small, edible. 



