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Vernac. name. — Quit-undo (Pungo Andongo, Welwitsdi). 



Nupe. 



A brilliant whitish resin is contained in the branches and trunk 

 near the base. 



The natives of Pungo Andongo consider the charcoal made from 

 the wood to be the best for use in the manufacture of the small 

 copper and iron ornaments with which they are accustomed to 

 adorn themselves (Hiern, Oat. Welw. Afr. PL i. p. 181). 



MANGIFERA, Linn. 



Mangifera africana, Oliv. \ Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 443. 



Vernac. name. — Ogwi (Benin, Unwiri). — Wild Mango. 



Benin, and found all over the Central Province and probably 

 all over S. Nigeria, extending to N. Nigeria. 



Fruit eaten by the natives ; sold in the markets (Unwin, Repart 

 (MSS.) on Ec. PL Benin, Sept. 1907). 



Mangifera indica, Linn. ; FL Trop. Afr. I. p. 442. 



Ill— Rheede, Hort. Mai. iv. tt. 1 & 2 ; Rumpf . Amb. i. tt. 25 & 26 ; 

 Jacq. Jc. PL Rar. ii. t. 337 ; Lam. Encycl. t. 138, f. 1 ; Andr. Rep. 

 vi. t. 425 ; Tuss. Ant. ii. t, 15 ; Desc. Ant. i. t. 25 ; Nova Acta 

 Physico-Medico Academiae, Bonn, xii. t. 37 ; Diet. Sc. Nat. t. 262 ; 

 Spach, Suites t, 11. ; L'Hort. Universel, Paris, iii. 1842, p. 193 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 4510 ; Schacht. Madeira and Teneriff e, t. 4 ; N ooten, 

 Fl. Java, t. 20 ; Schnizlein, Ic. iv. t, 245, f. 7 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 1. 162 ; Yidal, FL For. Filip. t. 36 D (flower) ; Zippel Ausl. Handels 

 Nahrpfl. t. 60 ; Pierre FL For. Cochin, t. 361 (vars. comjjressa, cam- 

 bodiana) ; Hart, Bull. Misc. Inf. Roy. Bot, Gardens, Trinidad, 1899 

 (outline figures of fruits, see enumeration under refs.) ; Maries, 

 Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xxvi. 1901-02, ff. 319-333 {see enumeration 

 under refs.) ; Collins, U.S. Dept, Agric. Bull. No. 28, 1903 (see 

 enumeration under refs.) ; U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau PL Industry, 

 Bull. No. 46, 1903, t. 1, If. 1 & 2 (Methods of Grafting, India), f. 3 

 (Plants from India, showing condition of arrival in U.S.A.), t. 2 

 (Methods of Budding), t. 3 (Germination, 8 plantlets from one 

 seed) ; Firminger. Man. Gard. India [5th ed. Cameron], t, 2 (fruit 

 of " Gathay Mar," " Raspberry," " Chittoor," " Badame"") ; Wood- 

 row, The Mango, frontispiece ("Alphonse," fruit), p. 32 ("Totapari," 

 fruit) ; Contr. U.S. Nat, Herb. ix. t. 28 ; Freeman and Chandler, 

 World's Comm. Prod. pp. 265, 267, 272 ; Torreya, New York, 1907, 

 p. 115, f. 1 (Germinating seeds ; polyembrony), p. 116, f. 2 (8 seed- 

 lings from one seed, showing the blocks of nucellus each producing 

 a seedling) ; Macmillan, Trop. Agric. Ceylon, 1908 (see enumeration 

 under refs.) ; Bull. Dept. Agric. Jamaica, i. 1909, p. 48 (Budded 

 Mango, four years old), p. 50 ("Alphonse " Mango ; budded mango 

 " Bombay " ; young plantation budded mangoes). 



Mango. 



Native of the East Indies and Malaya. Naturalized in Tropical 

 America, Asia, and Africa. 



In West Africa, although the fruit has a fine appearance, the 

 characteristic flavour of turpentine is too much in evidence. The 

 qualities of the Indian Mango are due to care in selection and 

 hybridisation, the stock originally being the same as in Nigeria. 



