CHAPTER XV. 



TROPICAL FRUITS. 



Tropical fruits : culture of — Natural fruit orchards— The Durian — A 

 macedoine of fruits — The Mangosteen — " Prada Prada" — Mango — 

 The Ranibutan or "hairy fruit" — Bread fruit — Jack fruit, or 

 "Nangka" — "Champada" — Jintawan, or Manoongan fruits (TI7Z- 

 higlibeia .yp-) — Tampoe fruit — Red " Bilimbing " — " Mandaroit *' — 

 " Rambeneer " — "Mambangan" — "Luing" — " Langsat" or "Duku" 

 — " Rarnbi" — " Mangalin " — " Jambosa," or " Rose-apples " — Melons 

 — Oranges — Pomoloes — Custard apples — Cocoaniit — Wild onion 

 fruit — Banana, or " Pisang " fruit. 



The forests and gardens of Borneo are remarkably 

 rich, in native and naturalised kinds of edible fruits, and 

 the forests especially may be considered as the home of 

 the mangosteen, durian, tarippe or trap-fruit, langsat, 

 rambutan, and jintawan, all excellent, indeed unapproach- 

 able, in their way, but if one would enjoy them a journey 

 to the East is unfortunately necessary. They are some- 

 what like our own luscious jargonelle pears or green gage 

 plums, and must in a sense be " eaten off the tree." The 

 mango, one of the finest and most variable of Eastern fruits, 

 has been successfully cultivated in the West Indian Islands, 

 St. Michael's, and Madeira, and has fruited out-of-doors at 

 Lisbon, but those we have named above have hitherto 

 resisted culture outside their own restricted habitats, if 

 we except the solitary instance in which the mangosteen 

 fruited in one of the hothouses at Sion House some years 



