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INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES. 



alTo inhabit Sumatra. He gives us the defcriptian of the 

 bliic-rumped perroquet of Mr. Latham, Supp. Ixvi. The fore 

 head and rump are bhic ; the predominant color of the reft 

 of the phimage pale-green ; the inner coverts of the wings 



crirafon. 



The Ihort-tailed P/>, Latham, Supp. 8i. Sonnerat, ii. tab. ex. 

 differs very Httle from that defcribed in vol. of the Outlines 



of the Globe. 



The Routoiil of Malacca, is a moft curious fpecies of crowned 

 pigeon, defcribed by M.Sonnerat, ii. 174. tab. c. ; as is a variety 

 by Mr. Latham, ii. 623, tab. Ixiii. 



For the woodpecker of Malacca, Conner at, ii. p. 211, Latham, 

 Siipp. p. III. I refer to the authors cited. 

 Mancostan. Let me return to the vegetable kingdom to make one excep- 



tion to my defign. I muft here mention the Garcinia Mango- 

 Jlana, the moft boafted fruit of the Indies, and which is found in 

 the higheft perfedion in this pen-infula ; the name Mangojlaji is 

 Malayan. It is a fpecies confined to Malacca and the Malaye 

 illes ; grows neither in Hindoojlan, nor naturally in the Mo~ 

 lucca iiles, but is cultivated in Amboina ; the tree does not attain 

 any great height ; the fruit is of the fize of a fmali apple, of 

 a round form, and deep red wine color ; on the fummit is a ftar 

 of five or fix rays, fquared at their ends ; at the bottom are four 

 hollow leaves, the remains of the calyx ; the infide is purple, and 

 like a furrowed globe divided into fegments, each containing a 

 kernel. Thefe fegments are full of juice, the moft delicious that 

 can be imagined, a fine mixture of tart and fweet, and fo v^'hole- 

 fome as to be allowed in any quantities to feverous j)aticnts. 



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