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Mango {Mnngifev 



indica^ Linn.). 



By I. H, BuRKiLL and G. C. Bose, M.A. 



Fig. 1. Abnormal branch. 



from 



grafted plant growing in a plant-pot. The grafted branch was 

 of the race known in Calcutta as "late Bombay/' and the stock a 

 seedling mango. The total height of the plant at flowering was 

 but four feet. It bore two abnormal branches, one being very 

 small, the other about six inches long. Both carried leaves on 

 one side, and bracts with flowering axes on the other, the flowering 

 axes corresponding to the secondary branches of an inflorescence. 



figu 



green 



ied foliage 



the larger branch 



bearing side rose-red. The larger branch stood terminally on, and 

 continued, a branch of the previous year which 

 leaves evenly on all sides; and above them had produced at the 

 base of the new season's growth the usual scaly bracts. 



We hav 

 more or less 



1 1* 



The eleven radii are shown in the following 

 1, with the distribution of the leaves, and of the 

 -bearing axes on them. From it better than 

 from figure 1, the reader will realise that all the foliage leaves 



secon 



