5€0 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST, SOCIETY, Vol, XXVI1II_ 
No, XXVIII.—A SHORT NOTE ON THE INSTANCES OF SYNCARPY IN 
MANGIFERA INDICA LZ. AND SOME OTHER TROPICAL PLANTS. 
(Read at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Indian Science Congress). 
(With a text block.) 
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In May last Mr. Surandra Nath Roy of Khetupara, Pabna, sent an interesting 
specimen (Figs. A-D) in which three small mangoes (b, c, d), of about equal size, 
were found to have partly coalescted with a big one (a). The fruits, having # 
sub-central common pedicel (ped), were found united by their bases only, the 
fleshy lobes (a, b, c, d) at the apex being divergent. and quite distinct. The 
intermediate sinuses (cic) between these apical lobes assumed more or less the 
shape of V. 
A few days later, I came across a specimen (Fig. E) in which two mangoes: 
(a’, b’). of sub-equal size, were found to have fused together in the same fashion, 
