Chapter X. 



FRUITS OF THB WEST INDIA ISLANDS, AND THE SOUTH 

 AMERICAN CONTINENT. — PINE-APPLE; MAMMEE ; 

 ALLIGATOR-PEAR ; ANCHOVY-PEAR ; CUSTARD-AP- 

 PLES ; WILD PLUMS ; STAR-APPLE ; CACTUS ; PAP AW ; 

 GRENADILLAS ; COCOA-NUT ; CASHEW-NUT ; JUVIA. 



The Pine-apple — Bromelia. 



The earliest exchanges of tropical plants that took 

 place between the Portuguese in the east, and the 

 Spaniards in the west, have not been recorded with 



