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VEGETABLE SUBStANCES, 



are esteemed most highly by the natives— the former 

 next to the durion. 



The Malay Apple — Eugenia malaccemis. 



This, though an inferior fruit to the durion, is 

 attractive by its fragrance — its smell being that of a 

 rose. The Malay apple belongs to a numerous genus 

 of plants, there being a great number of species very 

 generally diffused over the tropical countries. The 

 fruit of all the species is a fleshy rind, inclosing one 

 or two large seeds. The Malay apple varies in size 

 from about an inch in diameter to the bigness of a 

 man's fist. The skin is yellowish, thin, and shining ; 

 the nut large, and without any hard shell ; and the 

 pulp very wholesome and agreeable. The tree that 

 produces it has a brown stem, about twenty feet high, 

 very full of branches at the top ; the young leaves 

 are bright purple, and the old ones green. 



