182 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Mamey del cura. See Ternstroemia elliptica and T. stahlit. 
Mamey sapote. See Liucuma mammosa. 
Mameyuelo. See Ardisia coriacea, A. glauciflora, and A. purpurascens. 
A tree from all parts of the island; height, from 40 to 45 feet (13 to 14 meters): 
diameter, 9 to 10 inches (23 to 25 centimeters). Wood white, hard; specific gray- 
ity, 0.879; used in building houses and cabinetmaking. (Exp. 1857.) 
Mamie apple. See Mammea americana. 
Mammea americana. MaAaMMEE. MaAMEy. MAMIE APPLE. 
Family Clusiaceae; a handsome tree. 40 to 60 feet (12 to 18 meters) high; fruit 
large, with a pleasant taste and aromatic smell, eaten raw or preserved in sugar. 
Wood valued for timber; gum used by natives in extracting chigoes, etc. 
(Lunan. ) 
From between Fajardo and Ceiba. (Stahl, 2: 124.) 
See note under Lucwma mammosa. 
Mammee. See Mammea americana. 
Mammee apple. See Mammea americana. 
Mammee sapota. See Lucuwma mammosa. 
Mamonceillo. See Melicocca bijuga. 
Manchineel. See Hippomane mancinella. 
Mandioca. See Manihot. 
Mangifera indica. MANGo. 
Family Anacardiaceae; a fruit tree native in South Asia or the Malay Archi- 
pelago and introduced into America about the beginning of the eighteenth century, 
It not infrequently happens that those who are visiting a tropical country for 
the first time confuse the mangrove and the mango. The former is a tree which 
forms tide-water swamps along the coasts and about the mouths of rivers in 
nearly all humid tropical countries, while the mango is an edible fruit, even more 
widely distributed. 
In Porto Rico the name mangrove or *‘mangle’’ is applied to three or four 
different trees which grow in the coast swamps, while the mango is the best 
known and most abundant of fruits. Whether associated with ideas of unwhole- 
someness through the above confusion or other unreliable information, many of 
the army officers in Cuba and Porto Rico manifested a violent prejudice against 
the mango, and some even issued orders strictly forbidding the soldiers, under 
any circumstances, to eat it. The antimango crusade has even gone to the extent 
of cutting down mango trees in public grounds. 
The only excuse for this mistaken policy seems to le in the report that many 
soldiers were made sick by them when the armies were first landed, and this on 
being sifted a little resolves itself into the proposition that a hearty meal of green 
mangoes, followed by a large quantity of bad rum, made the hungry and fatigued 
soldiers very sick. Before the mango is finally condemned it might be well to 
consider what the results would have been with green apples. 
In reality the mango is known throughout the Tropics as a delicious and whole- 
some fruit, comparable in quality and value with the apple or the orange, although 
entirely different from either in texture and flavor. Some varieties have, espe-_ 
cially when unripe, a distinct flavor and odor of turpentine, which seems objection- 
able at first, but soon comes to add charm to the high qualities of the new favorite. 
It has been said that one should eat mangoes only in a bath tub, on account of 
keeping the yellowish pulp from spreading over the countenance and person, and 
this might prevent the fruit becoming popular with the most fastidious. This 
objection, however, applies only to the poorer varieties, such as at present exist in 
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