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The only female stem which grew in the garden of St. 
Maixent, near the town of St. Louis, having flowered earlier 
than some male ones that were in the same place, M. Bojer 
touched it with the pollen of a Gourd, (Giraumon,) but the 
produce was much smaller than the fruits which had been 
seen at Zanzibar, being only 15 inches long and 8 inches in 
diameter: it contained 134 excellent kernels, similar to the 
best grown in its native country. 
The pulp of the fruit was excessively bitter, and of sucha 
nature, that, when only applied to the tongue, it caused me 
a violent headache, which lasted six or seven hours, and 
resembled what I had experienced after tasting the bulb of 
a new kind of Yam, (Dioscorea.) The bitterness that pet 
vaded my whole mouth resisted all attempts to remove it by 
rincing with clear water, and lasted till dinner-time, (5, P. v.) 
though I had tasted it at 8 o'clock in the morning. 
_ This intense and disagreeable flavour, with the novelty of 
the fruit in which it resides, determined me to request M. 
Delisse, an able chemist, to undertake its analysis; and I 
anxiously expect the result, — — = | 
M. Bojer intends to sow some of the fresh seeds, and to 
continue the fecundation of the female flowers which they 
may produce, with the pollen of the Gourd, (Giraumon,) in 
order to ascertain distinctly the produce of this hybrid fructi- 
fication: he will also attempt the impregnation of the ferti 
blossoms of the Gourd, with the pollen of this new plant, and 
make known his observations. ; 
The Liane Lejoliff has since produced perfect flowers and 
fruit at Bois Chéry, the residence of Mr. Charles Telfair 
