Durio zibet hinus of Lin nevus, 271 



limited to keep them all distinct by adequate definitions ; and this 

 is also the case with what is termed the aril of the seed. But some- 

 times this term is applied to parts which obviously have no claim to 

 it: thus, for instance, what Goertner gives as an instance of A rillus 

 baccatus in the Litchi (Scytalia chinensis G.) is nothing else but 

 the pulp of this delicious fruit, which the same author improperly 

 calls a Bacca exsucca : this pulp, when the fruit becomes dried, 

 separates from the hard outward skin in all points, except at the 

 base, and, concentrating round the kernel, exhibits the shape in 

 which it is represented in the incomparable work of Gaertner. 



The only species of the genus Durio is that highest of all fruit- 

 trees, known by the names of Durion and Dureyn. It is not found 

 in the western parts of India, but begins in Malacca, and is con- 

 tinued on through Java, Madura, Borneo, the Celebes, and all 

 the Moluccas. Rumpf and other ocular witnesses describe its 

 thin and spreading head as supported by an angular and as it 

 were winged stem, covered with an even and greyish yellow 

 bark, which distinguishes this tree among all others. The leaves 

 are alternate, from four to five inches in length, oblong, acumi- 

 nate, entire, rather plaited at the base, above smooth and of a 

 deep green hue; below covered with minute rust-coloured scales, 

 and marked by a strongly elevated longitudinal rib, emitting di- 

 stinct and arcuate lateral branches. Their stalks are an inch 

 long, fleshy, swoln. and likewise covered with minute scales. No 

 stipules were observable in those small branches which fell under 

 my examination, but it appeared as if there were some traces of 

 their former existence. The inflorescence of- the Durion is such 

 as we see in all trees bearing heavy fruit, as in the Jack, Bread- 

 fruit 



