It is yet more doubtful that the tree is indigenous in Africa, indeed it is easy to disprove the assertion. Loureiro[977] had seen the species on the east coast of this continent, but he supposed it to have been of American origin. Thonning had not seen it in Guinea, nor Brown in Congo.[978] It is true that specimens from the last-named country and from the islands in the Gulf of Guinea were sent to the herbarium at Kew, but Oliver says it is cultivated there.[979] A tree which occupies such a large area in America, and which has become naturalized in several districts of India within the last two centuries, would exist over a great extent of tropical Africa if it were indigenous in that quarter of the globe. +Mango+—_Mangifera indica_, Linnæus. Belonging to the same order as the _Cashew_, this tree nevertheless produces a true fruit, something the colour of the apricot.[980] It is impossible to doubt that it is a native of the south of Asia or of the Malay Archipelago, when we see the multitude of varieties cultivated in these countries, the number of ancient common names, in particular a Sanskrit name,[981] its abundance in the gardens of Bengal, of the Dekkan Peninsula, and of Ceylon, even in Rheede’s time. Its cultivation was less diffused in the direction of China, for Loureiro only mentions its existence in Cochin-China. According to Rumphius,[982] it had been introduced into certain islands of the Asiatic Archipelago within the memory of living men. Forster does not mention it in his work on the fruits of the Pacific Islands at the time of Cook’s expedition. The name common in the Philippine Isles, _manga_,[983] shows a foreign origin, for it is the Malay and Spanish name. The common name in Ceylon is _ambe_, akin to the Sanskrit _amra_, whence the Persian and Arab _amb_,[984] the modern Indian names, and perhaps the Malay, _mangka_, _manga_, _manpelaan_, indicated by Rumphius. There are, however, other names used in the Sunda Islands, in the Moluccas, and in Cochin-China. The variety of these names argues an ancient introduction into the East Indian Archipelago, in spite of the opinion of Rumphius.