﻿Inventory 44, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate I. 



Seedling Mangos of the Two Principal Cuban Races, at Santiago de 

 las Vegas. (See S. P. I. Nos. 40920 and 40921.) 



The tall tree on the left is typical of the race called mango, while the low, broad one is a manga. This 

 classification, although one made by the natives, seems to hold in both tree and fruit characters, the 

 mango type of fruit being nearly always elongated or longer than broad, frequently more or less reni- 

 f orm, and usually beaked. The fiber is long and coarse, but not very thick, and the pulp is slightly 

 more acid than that of the manga. The manga type produced by the low broad trees has fruit 

 nearly always broader than long, usually oblique at base and apex, with no beak. The fiber is fine 

 and extremely abundant, almost impossible to separate from the very sweet pulp. ( Photographed 

 by Wilson Popenoe, Santiago delas Vegas, February 23, 1916; P16677FS.) 



