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 female flov/ers on the same panicle. Sepals ovate, oblong, 

 concave. Petals twice as long, ovate, ridges 3-5, orange. 

 Disk fleshy, 5-lobed ; stamen, 1 Inserted upon the disc ; 

 filament subulate ; anther purple, ovary glabrous. 



The fruit Is a drupe, large (2-6") and kidney shaped, the 

 skin being smooth rat?ier soft, pale green, yellovi/ or half red 

 and resinous . The shell of the seed Is rough and fibrous ; 

 the kernel Is shaped like a bean. In some poor varieties of 

 mango the pulp Is so full of fibre that the fruit Is sucked 

 rather than eaten and beginners say that It tastes like a ball 

 of cotton soaked In turpentine, but the Improved kinds are not 

 unpleasantly fibrous. 



It Is often difficult to say whether so common a tree Is 

 wild or not In a given locality, but there seem.s to be little 

 doubt that It Is Indigenous In the localities enumerated above. 

 Amongst the varieties, those with an almost glabrous panicle 

 from the Western peninsula look the most unlike the ordinary 

 cultivated form. There are said to be 130 or more varieties 

 cultivated in India, v/here the mango is most esteemed. 



In the U.S.D.A. Bui. 1, Division of Pomology, m.entlon Is 

 made of the following popular 'Indian varieties of mango : 

 (1) AlphonBo, (2) Arbuthnot, (3) Arracanr--one of the sorts 

 grown In the gardens of the agrl- horticultural society, Cal- 

 cutta-- (4) August, (5) Archal , (6) Bombay--one of the finest 

 of the Indian varletles-r- (This variety and the Malda are the 

 two most popular varieties, in favor with every one who tastes 

 them, while some of the other varieties are delicious to some 



