406 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. 



are esteemed most highly by the natives the former 

 next to the durion. 



THE MALAY APPLE Eugenia malaccensis. 



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. 



