1864 TROPICAL FRUITS 



markets. Mealy hug attacks the cultivated pine-apple, 

 and IjliL'lit mill t:m:j:le-foot occur as in Florida, but in 

 suital.l.- -inni i"iis ii LTOWS wild without any cultivation 

 quite f.r.. r,-,„u .li-.;ise. 



CV'("'(""'<. -Til' r.- is a large export of coeoanuts in 

 the shell from the W . Indies, and in Jamaica there is a 

 factory for making cocoanut oil. The palms are sub- 

 ject in some districts to a disease which attacks the 

 terminal bud. So far as can be judged, it is of a 

 bacterial nature, and probably infection is caused by 

 beetles and other insects. In the West Indies coeoanuts 

 flourish even in the interior of the islands and at a con- 

 siderable elevation— 2,000 feet. They require an abund- 

 ance of water at their roots. 



Mangoes were introduced into the West Indies towards 

 the end of the eighteenth century, and to-day they are 



This picture shows a spef imen grown in the open 

 in southern Florida; Fig. 363 shows one grown in a 

 northern greenhouse. 



sweet cup, pomme d'or, guava, raamraee antl raammee 

 sapota are all natives of tropical or subtropical America 

 or the West Indies, or are indigenous on both the main- 

 land and some of the islands. 



mode of packing fruits for export. The Government of 

 Jamaica is about to appoint inspectors of fruit for 

 export, who will stamp all packages that pass as well- 

 graded, well packed, etc., with the Government mark. 

 It will be optional for exporters to take advantage of 

 such inspection. 



The Imperial I). I ni ii i » n iliu. iii the Lesser 

 Antilles, and th. I i i Trinidad, 



and British Gui in i il.le amount 



of attention to tun i , 



The inaugui Hi , i i I i 1 ii ..f 



a regular and sj sttm.itK ixp..it ..f tiuit tiom tli. W , st 

 Indies to Europe, and the development of the tr.ide 

 to an enormous extent is confidently anticipated 



Wm. Fawcett. 



Botany o! Tropical Fruits. All the tropical fruits 

 mentioned above are described in this work at their 

 proper places, with the exception of some of the follow- 

 ing: 



Barbadoes Cherry is Malpighia glabra, which see. 



Nilgiri Blackberry is Muhiis racemosus. 



Ochra is another spelling for Okra. 



Pomme Cythfere is Spondias ilidcis, described below. 



Pomme d'Or is Passiflorn laurifoHa. 



Spanish Plum. Consult NjwvtHas purpurea, below. 



Sweet Cup is Passiflora ediilis and P. maliformis. 



The genns Sp6ndia3 of the famil 

 its name from an ohl Greek word i 

 for some kind of plum. It contti 



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it, connected only 



diilcis, Porst. Pomme Ctthere. Sweet Otaheite 

 Apple. Puuit de Ctthere. Hevi. Wi Fruit, in Ta- 

 hite. Height 50 ft.: Ifts. 11-13, oval-oblong, acuminate, 

 serrate: fr. golden yellow, tastes something like a pine- 

 apple. Society Islands. 



B. Bacemes panicled, often exceeding the Irtt.: fls. 

 yellowish white. 



mtea, Linn., (S. MSmUn, Jacq., not Linn.). Golden 

 Apple. Jamaica Plum. Tall tree: Ifts. 7-17, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate or lanceolate, subentire or serrulate : panicle 

 5^-1 ft. long: fr. ovoid, 2 in. long, yellow. Cosmopoli- 

 tan ill tropics. 



BB. Racemes unbranched, few-fid., much shorter than 

 lus.: fU. purpU.ih. 

 purpiirea, Linn. (5. M6mbin, Linn., not Jacq. ). Span- 

 ish Plum. Low tree: Ivs. deciduous: Ifts. 16-21, ellip- 

 tic-oblong, bluntish. usually serrate: fr. obovoid, 1 in. 

 long, yellow or tinged purple. American Tropics. 



TKOXIMON (Greek, edible; which does not apply). 

 Compdsitw. A genus of 15 species of mostly perennial, 

 nearly stemless herbs native of North America except 

 possibly 2 species which are South American. The spe- 



