SER CT a a eee 
. Consists of ornamental and highly valuab 
- like this, bearing edible fruits. Among the species is 
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and is composed of two stems running up from tly main trunk. It . 
menced to bear fruit when two years old. Tt assumes a beautiful appear- 
ance early in the fruiting-season, when dark-green foliage is in 
in China, but those T observed and tasted in that country were smaller in size, 
and externally of a bright red colour;,as there are several varieties, the size 
Diospyros 
bythe Chinese. One of the varieties is designated by the Chinese, Ngnow- 
Sum-Tzee, or Bull’s-heart Diospyros, and resembles in external appearance a 
tomato, except in being of a larger size. When it is divided it is found to con- 
tain a yellowish semitransparent pulp, not unlike a plum, both in flavour, ap- 
pearance, and consistence, and contains several oblong brownish p) ihe 
Outer skin has a very disagreeable astringent taste, and it would always be de- 
sirable to separate it with the finger in the centre, when eaten, in preference to 
isi g a knife. Another variety I noticed in China is much smaller, oval, about s 
the size of a date, of a bright crimson colour, and is named by the Chinese, 
: Kai-Sum-Tzee, or Fowl's-heart Diospyros. In taste it had a mawkish sweet- 
.— hess, and was not equal to the other variety in flavour. One species I observed 
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. iis the Mabola (Diospyros Mabola), and is indigenous to the Philippine 
Islands. The fruit is seen in profusion in the markets during the season, and 
of very agreeable flavour. The Cargillia Australis, or blac 
in the Illawarra and other districts of New South Wales, 
. same Natural Order as the Diospyros; the fruit, of a dark-purple colour, is 
tized fruit (Di. Kaki) belongs 
; (Diospyros Kaki) gs to D amber-trees, arid many of them, 
