MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 645 



No. XXIL— A MANGO TREE {M. IN DIG A) FLOWERING IN AUGUST. 



It may interest the members of this Society to know that a very large number 

 of mango trees, especially in the grove sm-rounding the temple tank at Sion, 

 flowered in August of this year. It is not unusual to sec out of season a stray 

 bmich of flowers on a mango tree but it is very rare to find mango trees in 

 luxuriant blossom in the rains. The damp warm weather of August last seems 

 to have had a peculiar eifeet in making certain trees flower out of season as, 

 besides the mango trees, a large number of '' Pelteforum ferrugineum " and a 

 few specimens of ''' Lagoestromia flos regina " are also in flower at present. 

 The usual time for flowering is March- April for the former and May for 

 the latter. 



Another unusual fact is the effect which the stormy winds of last Jmie had on 

 the vegetation in Bombaj^. The winds which herald the monsoon are generally 

 charged with sea spray which scorches the leaves of the trees and shrubs on the 

 western side of Bombay, but this year's wind has swept over the Island from 

 side to side and biu-nt the trees to such an extent that some of them will never 

 recover from the shock. 



JAYME RIBEIRO, l.c r. 

 Bombay, 

 Ufh September 1920. 



