BREADFRUIT. Si 



<* and there remains a tender thin cruft, and the infide of it foft, 

 ** tender, and white, hke the crumbs of a penny loaf. There is 

 " neither feed nor ftone in the infide, but all is of a pure fub- 

 *' fiance like bread ; it mud be eaten new, for if it is kept above 

 *' twenty-four hours, it becomes dry, and eats harfli and choaky, 

 " but it is very pleafant before it is too ftale. This fruit lafts in 

 " feafon eight months in the year, during which time the na- 

 *' tives eat no other fort of food of bread kind." 



The fruit which M. Sonnerat, p. 99, calls Le Rima, ou fruit a 

 pain, and which he has engaven in tab. 57. 58. 59. and 60, is the 

 perfedl: fruit, or foccus granofus, Juft beneath the rind is a feries 

 of large almond-like kernels, adhering to a central placenta, and 

 of a farinaceous fubftance, which when roafted eat like chef- 

 nuts. The fruit itfelf is large and fpherical; the natives of the 

 Philippines cut it into llices, dry and eat it like bread ; it will keep 

 two years. This is the variety Mr. Ellis calls the Ducdu, and 

 feems to make it a feparate fpecies. 



A MixuTE orange, tab. 63, refembling the Citrus trifoUata oi Orange. 

 Linnaus, is found here; the fruit is very fmall, of a bright red co- 

 lor. It has no feilions, but only one lodgment for the feeds. 

 The pulp is flightly acid, and very agreeable. It may be the Ssi 

 or Karatas Banna of the Japanefef Kaempf. Amoen. Ex. 801. 2. 

 I'hunberg, Fl. Japon. 294. 



In Mindanao are found three fruits engraven by M. Sonnerat ; 

 the ManJJanus or Majfon, tab. 94, refembling a Jujube tree ; the 

 leaves are alternate, the fruit a berry, covering a hard kernel, 

 containing two nuts of a green color. 



The next is the Menichea rofata, tab. 93. The fruit is be- 

 VoL.IV. M tween 



