cultivating in England. By Mr. John Lindley. 113 



it emits a pleasant faint smell ; in a state of decay it has a 

 strong taste of turpentine. In the inside is a large stone, to 

 which the flesh always firmly adheres. Such is the character 

 of the commonest kinds ; those which grow in Amboyna and 

 Banda attain the greatest size, and those of Java are the 

 smallest, but entirely yellow and very sweet ; the Mangoes 

 of Mazagong, a town of Hindostan, are said to be the finest, 

 especially those which grow on one particularly large tree, 

 which being the property of Government, has a guard placed 

 over it during the fruit season. The President has in culti- 

 vation a kind which he received from Kew under the name of 

 the Alphonso Mango ; obtained, as was stated to him, from 

 the vicinity of Bombay, where it was highly esteemed. In the 

 number of its varieties this plant almost rivals the Plantain. 

 Forty varieties are known in Java,* but Rumphius reduces 

 those of the Indian islands to five principal heads : the cora- 

 mpn Mango above described, and four others. 



1. Manga Dodol, or Mango Calappa, is the largest variety, 

 sometimes being as big as an infant's head, and weighing more 

 than two pounds. Its flesh is not yellow in the inside, but of 

 a pale hue ; it is less fibrous than the common sort, with a 

 smaller stone ; the taste is sweet with a little acidity. In Goa, 

 it is called Mango Barera, and grows to the size of a middling 

 shaddock. Sometimes the fruit acquires a reddish colour, as 

 in the sort named Tsjeribon (after a place so called) in Java. 



2. Manga Bading, or M. JDaki ; of this the fruit is oblong, 

 rounder than the others, and green even when fully ripe. Its 

 flesh is pale red without fibres, and its taste is fainter than 

 that of the other varieties. It is not a common kind. 



* Raffles^ History of Java, Vol. i. page 36, 



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