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by tough, stringy fibres. Each cell is filled with a pulpy substance, 

 which, when old and dry, becomes pithy, and in this the seeds are 

 immersed. These are kidney-shaped, brown, shining, hard, with a few 

 pale dots, filled within by the white fleshy embryo, whose cotyledons 

 are foliaceous, and singularly convoluted around the inferior radicle. 

 Hooker. Mucilaginous. Dried leaves in powder found serviceable in 

 diarrhoea, fevers, and other maladies. Pulp of the fruit subacid ; its juice 

 considered a specific in the putrid pestilential fevers of the Gold Coast. 

 Fruit a common article of consumption among the negroes. 



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