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Another tree, with very sweet-scented yel- 

 lowish-white flowers, bears a delicious stone- 

 fruit resembling a green cherry. A nice fruit 

 grows on a pretty bush with large woolly leaves 

 and small yellow blossom, reminding me of a 

 large medlar both in appearance and taste, 

 which is rather acid ; but when the pulp is 

 mixed with a little sugar and water it makes 

 a good substitute for apple -sauce. The fruit 

 growing on another bush is very like a guava 

 in flavour, but my Chobi boy will not eat it, 

 although it is much liked by the Kafirs here- 

 about, simply because it is never eaten in his 

 country. 



The Kafir orange is rather a nice fruit ; it has 

 a very hard rind full of a sweet acid brown 

 pulp and quantities of large stones which the 

 natives always swallow and pass undigested. 

 It grows to the greatest perfection at Catembe, 

 where the fruit is sometimes as large as a 

 shaddock. When ripe it is a greenish-yellow, 

 with a very strong scent. 



In Poulana valley are several large wild fig- 



