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ling, or layering. Extensively cultivated in India, Ceylon, and in 
the coastal lowlands of Mauritius, where the excellence of the fruit 
has marked for it a prominent place amongst the best tropical fruits 
grown. At the time of ripening the heavy clusters of crimson fruit 
form a startling contrast with the dark glossy foliage. The fruit, 
which is roundish conieal, consists of a large, smooth, oval, brown 
stone, covered by a pulpy arillus of a nearly transparent white, like 
jelly ; sweet, with a delicate sub-acid flavour. The whole is encase 
in a rough, crimson shell-like covering. 
The sun-dried fruits are largely exported from Canton and 
Hong Kong, and can be seen in Chinese greengrocers’ shops of Perth. 
Lonean (Nepheliwm longanum). 
The tree ix much like the litchi, but taller; it is also hardier, 
and can be raised true from seed. The fruit is not so rough ex- 
ternally as the litehi, and, like it, is contained in a shell-like covering ; 
it is roundish in shape, with a round brown stone, covered by a pulpy 
arillus like the litchi, but not so palatable. 
Tue Manco (Mangifera indica). 
The mango, all the world over, is classed amongst the best of 
tropical fruits; few rival and none excel it. The tree is a handsome, 
large-spreading evergreen, which grows from 10 to 30 feet in height, 
and even more. It is a native of India, but is now widely cultivated 
all over the tropics, and even in many subtropical countries. The 
leaves are lanceolate, and the flowers in terminal panicles. In size, 
shape, colour, flavouring. and quality of flesh the fruit varies widely. 
Its varieties range in weight from 2ozs. to 2lbs. each. In shape 
it is generally kidney-form, although some are roundish and flattened 
and others elongated and curved. The colour of the skin is gener- 
ally green at first, although some are red or purple, and they as- 
sume, when ripe, a yellowish colour. Other varieties are mottled 
with various shades of red, while a few do not change colour at all 
in ripening. Between the skin and the kidney-shaped stone in the 
centre is the fleshy pulp, which is yellow, sweet, and luscious. The 
“tar and turpentine” flavour which some varieties are said to possess, 
is only applicable to inferior varieties. The better kinds have little 
or no fibre, and if they possess any trace of turpentine at all, it is 
not disparaging to the deliciousness of the flavour. 
The list of varieties of mangoes would be a lengthy one. The 
Agyri.-Horticultural Society of India publish a list of forty odd 
kinds, of which they sell grafts; forty varieties or more are known 
in Java; some thirty varieties or more are cultivated in Mauritius; 
while a great many are also known in the West Indies. 
The mango does not reproduce true to name from seed, and, 
as if does not readily take the cleft graft, it is generally propa- 
