220 .lAVA FRUIT. 



The Orange {Citrus durantium). 



The Papaw (Carica papaya) : whose fruit re- 

 sembles the shaddock; its large fig-shaped 

 leaves are used l^y the natives instead of 

 soap to wash linen, and the juice of the 

 fruit possesses the curious ]:)roperty, when 

 boiled with tough meat, of rendering it 

 tender ; its taste is sweetish sour, rather 

 insipid, and somewhat turpentiny. 



The Pomaloe or forbidden fruit {Citrus paradisi) 

 (Plate XXII.): of a pink pulp and very 

 thick rind. 



The Longan, here called Duku {Nephelium longan) 



(Plate XXI.) : like a brown ball barely an 



inch in diameter, of agreeable although 



sometimes slightly resinous flavour. 



Besides these there are nearly all the fruits of 



Southern India and Ceylon. 



In passing gardens containing such an abundance 

 and variety of fruit I fear I cast many a jealous glance 

 at the latter, and would gladly have paid the forfeit 

 enforced many years ago in the environs of Herat, had 

 I only been invited to help myself Mr. Arthur 

 Conolly, who visited that country in 1831, in giving 

 an account of the beauty and richness of that part of 



