CHAPTER IV 



Anacardlaceae 

 Mango, Manglfera Indlca (Linn.) 

 Origin 



India, cultivated perhaps more than 4,000 years- 



Description and Habitat 



Leaves oblong or linear oblong or elliptic or obovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse acute or acuminate, pjanlcle usually tomen- 

 tose, petals 5 with 3 ridges, stamens 1, fertile and 4 reduced 

 to short capitate subulate filaments, style subtermlnal. 



Tropical Himalaya, altitude 1-3,000 ft, from Kumaon to 

 Bhokara Hills and valleys of Behar, the Khasia Mts., Burma, 

 Oudh and Vl^estern Peninsula from Kandelsh southwards. Distri- 

 bution, cultivated as far west as Muscat, in all Eastern 

 tropical Asia, and generally in the tropics. 



A large tree, glabrous except the panicle, branches v;ldely 

 spreading. Leaves 6-16 in., very variable In breadth, 

 crowded at the ends of the branches, acute, accuminate or 

 obtuse, shining, nerved, quite entire, margins often undulate, 

 petiole 1-4 in., sv/ollen at the base. Panicles a foot and 

 more, pubescent, rarely glabrate ; bracts elliptic, concave. 

 Flowers yellow odorous, subsessile, rarel: pedlcelled, male and 



