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Glycosmis citrifolia has delicious berries. 



Guttiferce, or Clusiacece, Gamboge order. Garcinia mango- 

 stana, a native of Malacca, produces the delicious fruit " nian- 

 gosteen." The rind is an astringent. 



Mammea Americana affords the mammee apple or wild 

 apricot of South America. 



Pentadesma lutyracea is the butter and tallow tree of 

 Sierra Leone. 



Hippocrateacece, Hippocratea order. Hippocrated comosa 

 of South America yields nuts, which are oily and sweet. 



Tontelea pyriformis yields a fruit eaten at Sierra Leone. 

 Several species of Tontelea in Brazil have a sweet mucilagin- 

 ous fruit, which is eaten. 



Malpighiacece, Malpighia order. The Malpighia gldbra 

 and the Malpighia punicifolia afford the Barbadoes cherry, 

 used in Jamaica as a dessert. The fruit of some Byrsonimas 

 is also eaten there. 



Aceracecc, Maple order. Acer saccharinum^o, sugar-maple 

 of North America. A cer dasycarpum and other species like- 

 wise yield sugar. The juices of the Aceracece are said to 

 become acrid as the season advances. 



Sapindacece, Soapwort order. JEsculus hippocastanum, 

 the horse-chestnut, has seeds containing saponaceous matter. 

 The seeds are used as food for sheep. The seeds have been 

 recommended as a substitute for coffee. Sheep eat them 

 greedily. In moderate quantity they are said to give an ex- 

 cellent flavour to mutton. 



Cardiospermum halicacabum has esculent leaves. 



Cupania (Blighia) sapida furnishes the akee fruit, remark- 

 able for its edible succulent arillus. 



Nephdium litchi affords the li-chi fruit of China. Nephe- 

 lium longan gives the Chinese longan fruit, and another species 

 the rambutan fruit. 



