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Navel. This Grain is covered with two (mail Skins, 
the outermoft of which ferves for a Balls to the Fi- 
laments and Membranes of which the Pulp is compo* 
fed. The Subfiance of thefe Grains cotnes very near 
to that of Chefnuts as to their Confiftency, Colour, 
and aflringent Quality. The Calix always remains 
flicking to the Fruit, to which it ferves for an Or- 
nament, and when half dried up, it is of the Colour 
of the ’Pomegranate Shell on the Outlide. It covers 
about a lixth Part of the Circumference of the 
Fruit, 
Remarks. 
Garcias , Clujhis , and Bontius , are the firft Au- 
thors whohave made mention of the MangoJtans\ but 
they have left us only indifferent Defcriptions, and 
fo Ihort ones, that it is not poflible to form from them 
a fufficient Idea for difcovering its Characters. The 
firft of thofe Authors was ill informed, when he 
was told the Fruit of it was yellow. Cluftus has 
fpoke of it under two different Names, without ap- 
prehending that it was one and the fame Plant. The 
Figure which he has given of the Fruit, and which 
he calls Arbor peregrina Aurantio Jimili fruAu, 
though ill done, yet reprefents it enough to know 
it again. If in that Figure the Fruit appears little 
in relation to the Twig which fupports it, this can 
be for no other Reafon, but becaufe he received 
from t^e Indies fome of that Fruit _ which had 
been gathered before its State of Perfection, and after 
it drew his Figure. And hence it is, that the Fruit 
being fhrunk up and imperfeCt, he found nothing in 
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