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West Indies. The tree is very large, with spreading 

 branches, and thick, beautiful foliage ; the leaves are pin- 

 nate, smooth, oblong, entire, of a bright green ; they close 

 at night. The fruit is a pod from two to five inches long, 

 enclosing from two to five seeds ; the outer pod is thick, 

 the inner as thin as parchment, enclosing the pulp, which 

 is a soft, pulpy substance. The fruit may be preserved in 

 jars, with alternate layers of sugar. But in the West In- 

 dies the following mode is adopted : The ripe fruit is taken 

 out of the pod, and placed in layers in a cask ; and the 

 boiling sirup from the first copper in the boiling house, 

 just before it begins to granulate, is poured in till the cask 

 is filled ; when cool, the cask is headed. ,. 



TRIPHASIA. (Aurantiola.) Hort. Soc. Cat. 



THREE-LEAVED TRYPHASIA. Limonia trifoliata. 



The fruit resembles a small orange, and is aromatic. It 

 rises to a compact shrub or tree. 



VARRONIA PLUM. (Varronia alnifolia.) Hort. Soc. 



Cat. 



This fruit resembles a small plum. It grows against a 

 south wall, (in England.) It has borne fruit in the Bo- 

 tanic Garden of Madrid, and is believed to be a native of 

 Mexico. 



