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Manila markets, and sells at a good price. A cluster of the 
fruits looks not unlike a cluster of loquats, except in the 
less attractive color. Lansium domesticum is a medium sized, 
rather , slender tree, native of the Malayan archipelago. The 
compound leaves are made up of six or eight oblong-lanceolate, 
glabrous leaflets, about 4 inches in length and l£ inches in 
breadth, the petiole very short. Except for the difference in 
the size of the fruit clusters the two forms are, as far as 
could be ascertained, practically the same in characters of 
growth and foliage." (Popenoe.) Dr. B. T. Galloway during 
his brief visit in Java in 1910, was much impressed with the 
possibilities of this fruit. These impressions agreed with my 
own made in 1896 and led us to request Mr. Popenoe to make a 
special examination of its culture in the East Indies. (Fair- 
child.) For distribution later. 
MANGIFERA VERTICILLATA. ( Anacardiaceae . ) 34431. Seeds 
of the baiino from the Philippine Islands. Presented by Mr. 
W. S. Lyon, Manila, who procured them through Mr. P. J. 
Wester, Horticulturist, Philippine Bureau of Agriculture. "A 
large tree sometimes exceeding 12 meters in height with a 
trunk 50 centimeters in diameter, growing in inundated regions 
in several parts of Mindanao, being particularly abundant 
around Butuan and in many places in the Agusan Valley and 
Davao , and occurring also in the Sulu Archipelago. The bauno 
resembles the mango in habit and appearance though it is some- 
what more upright in habit, of sparser foliage, more gnarled, 
and less attractive in appearance than the mango. The leaves 
are 12-18 centimeters long, elliptical to lanceolate or ob- 
lanceolate, coriaceous, smooth, with a prominent midrib. The 
flowers are small, blue, and appear in terminal panicles like 
the mango. There is considerable variation in the appearance, 
size, and quality of the fruit in the numerous trees. The 
fruit of the best is somewhat larger than a Carabao mango, 
from 11 to sometimes exceeding 13 cm. in length, with an 
equatorial diameter of 7 to 8 cm., oblong oval to pyriform; 
stem usually inserted obliquely in a more or less irregular 
sinus; stigmatic area depressed; surface smooth; color yellow- 
ish green; lenticels numerous, small; skin very thin and 
tender, adhering closely to flesh; flesh white, very juicy, 
rich, sub-acid, quite aromatic, of excellent flavor, partak- 
ing somewhat of the flavor of apricot and soursop combined. 
The one seed is monoembryoni c , large, oblong, and encased in 
matted coarse fibers that penetrate the flesh to more or less 
extent. The tree blooms in July and August and the fruit 
ripens in August and September. The largest and best flavored 
baunos were obtained in Zamboanga; very good fruits were found 
in Davao and Butuan and some that were very poor in Butuan and 
