MA.NGLES, JAMES, 1785-1861; b. England; entered the British navy in 1800, and was made a commander in 1815. The next year he went down the Nile, and made excavations at the temples in Ipsambool. He returned to England in 1820, by way of Syria. A collection of letters, written by him and his traveling companion, commander Charles Leonard Irby, was printed for private circulation in 1823, and given to the pub lic in 1£344, as Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and the Holy Land.
MANGO, ..3fangifera, a genus of trees of the natural order anacardiacea, having flowers with four or five petals, five stamens, of which the greater part are generally sterile, one ovary seated on a fleshy disk, the fruit a fleshy drupe. The COMMON MANGO (ilf. Indica) is a native of India. It is a spreading tree of rapid growth; 30 to 40 ft. in height, the stem only rising 8 to 10 ft. before it divides into branches; the foliage so dense as to be impenetrable to the burning rays of the sun, affording a most grateful shade; the leaves lanceolate, entire, alternate, stalked, smooth, shining, leathery, and about 7 or 8 inches long, with a sweet resinous smell. The flowers are small, reddish-white or yel lowish, in large erect terminal panicles; the fruit is kidney-shaped, smooth, varying considerably in size and color, and containing a large flattened stone, which is covered on the outside with fibrous filaments, longest and most abundant in the inferior varieties, some of which consist chiefly of fiber and juice. whilst the finer ones have a compara
tively solid pulp. The fruit of some of the varieties in cultivation is as large as a man's fist. The mango is much prized for the dessert; it is luscious and sweet, with slight acidity. It was introduced into Jamaica in 1782, and is now very generally cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries. The unripe fruit is made Into tarts and pickles. Mango kernels are nutritious, and have been cooked for food in times of scarcity. The tree is raised from seeds; the finer varieties are propagated by layering and inarching, and trees obtained in this way often bear much fruit without attaining a lhrge size. There are several other species of mango, natives of different parts of the east, but the fruits of all of them are very inferior.