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the Honey berry, and certainly has a sweet taste, but is too small to 
be worth eating. 
Anacardiace^e 
This order contains the Mangos, and a few other eatable fruits. 
The common Mango, Mangifera indie a, is often cultivated here 
and occurs in almost every village, but for a variety of reasons the 
fruit when produced is almost uneatable. The tree is a native ot 
India and it is probable that the wetness of our climate does not 
suit it at all. The best Mangoes imported into the straits are those 
of Siam and the Philippines/ but fairly good Mangoes are grown in 
In the* Peninsula the tree is attacked by a large variety of insect 
pests, the worst of which is a boring caterpillar, which burrows up 
the stem of young trees and the branches and destroys them. I he 
perfect insect is a large moth, but it has not yet been identified. 
Another caterpillar attacks the leaves covering them with a web 
full of debris of leaves and frass. 
The Mango weevil, Cryptorhynchus Mangiferoe, which bores into 
the fruit and destroys it also occurs in Singapore and is often seen 
too in imported Mangos. Notwithstanding all these pests Mango 
trees ot large size may be seen in various parts of the Peninsula, 
but I have never seen 'really good fruit on them. 
For those who wish to grow Mangos, it is better to isolate the 
trees from each other but to mix them with other trees allowing 
them top light but partly shading them with other trees, Mangos 
grown in the open and quite exposed, are generally killed by the 
borer as soon as they are big enough for it to attack. 
1 here are a number of native Mangos, which are cultivated or 
half wild all over the Peninsula and which are more or less popular 
among the natives. Most of them are very large often gigantic 
trees with green fruit with a coarse flavour and firmer texture than 
that of the <. ommon Mango. The commonest of these is the Bachang, 
M . foetid a, the fruit of which is dull green, and about as large as 
an ordinary Mango but less flattened. 1 he flesh is firm and though 
sweet has an objectionable scent and flavour. It is eaten in cur- 
ries, and also raw. Some varieties of it are quite palatable. It is 
grown from seed and is rather slow in growth, but will fruit when 
only twenty feet tall. 
The Binjai, M. coesia , is a remarkably handsome tree when 
covered with its masses of pinkish white flowers. The fruit some- 
what resembles that of the Bachang but is longer and white. Its 
flesh is juicy but acid and white with an unpleasant odour. A 
variety Binjai manis with sweet juice and a light brown skin 
occurs in Singapore. 
The Lanjut, M. lagenifera , is a very large tree with compara- 
tively small leaves and a green fruit pear-shaped, 4 or 5 inches 
long. It is very fibrous and coarse flavoured and hardly even 
popular among natives. 
The Kohini, Mangifera odorata> is a large tree with pink and 
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