BOTANY. 



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true grape vine; but the fruit is acrid, like ail the indigen- 

 ous species, and not edible even to a native. 

 Vitis indica. 



GRAPE VINE. 



The grape vine many be seen in many of our gar- 

 dens, but it very rarely produces fruit. I once saw a 

 vine in Mergui, however, which had on it several fine 

 bunches of grapes ; and I have heard of grapes being oc- 

 casionally brought to perfection in Maulmain. 

 Vitis vinifera. 



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CHERRY. 



Voigt says there is a species of cerasus. or cherry 

 " a native of Maulmain," but I have never happened to 

 meet with it. He had however good authority for the 

 statement ; and Griffith remarks that there is in the Pro- 

 vinces one species of the almond tribe, " which abounds 

 in prussic acid." 

 Cerasus. 



WALNUTS, 



Walnuts are occasionally brought from Rangoon ; but 

 it is not certain that they are the produce of the indigen- 

 ous walnut tree. 



Jug Ian s arguta, 



hog's plum. 

 This is an intensely astringent fruit very appropriately 

 named. The Karens have a tradition that in those Gold- 

 en Days when God dwelt with men, all nations came be- 

 fore him on a certain day, each with an offering from the 

 fruits of their land, and the Karens selected the hog's 

 plum for their oblation; which gave such offence, that God 

 cursed the Karen nation and placed it lowest among all 

 the nations by whom they are surrounded. 



Spondias mangifera. 



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