96 Some account of the Papaio Jlpple. 



in length, and five inches in diameter. A long account is given 

 of this fruit by Sir W. J. Hooker, in the Botanical Magazine^ 

 2898, but as we have not the back volumes of that work before 



us, we are unable to make any remarks. Dr. Lindley states, in 

 his Introduction, that the fruit has " little to recommend it." 

 Its great peculiarities are, that " the juice of the unripe fruit is 



