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give way to the touch. After the interval of a century, from 

 the time of Knox, Dodlor Thunberg* gives an account of both 

 fpecies. This he fays is the Maldivian four Jack of the Dutcb^ 

 that it contains two or three hundred great kernels, each four 

 times the fize of an almond ; and that the fruit grows to the 

 weight of thirty or forty pounds ; that the talle is unpleafant, 

 and cadaverous, yet that not fewer than fifteen diflies are pre- 

 pared from it. He adds, that the trees of both kind are replete 

 with a milky juice, as tenacious as bird-lime itfelf ; and Kjiox 

 adds, that the boys apply it to that purpofe. RumpbiuSf i. p. 104, 

 calls the larger variety of this fpecies Saccus Arborens major^ 

 Nanba, and gives the figure in tab. xxx. The other he names 

 Saccus Arboreus tninor Tsjampedaka, fee p. 107, tab. xxxi. both 

 thefe are oblong ; the laft fack-fhaped. The leaves are entire 

 and ovated. The fruit grow in a moft fingular manner, hanging 

 by the ftalk from the body of the tree,- ex arbore trunco prode- 

 mata, fays Bauhin, in his Pinax, p. 511.. See alfo the figure in 

 Rumpbius, and alfo in Linfchottcn, tab. 76, 77. 

 Place*. This fpecies grows in moft of the fame places with the follow- 



ing. It is alfo frequent in the Maldive iiles, from whence, in 

 about the year 1727, or 1728, fome roots were brought, and 

 planted in this ifland. From this circumftance the fpecies is 

 called Maldivifcbe Syr Sack. 



Doctor Tbunberg, in our Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixix. has publiflied 

 a long account of thefe fruits, under the name of Tfitodium, 

 and particularly diftinguiflied the fecond kind by the name of 

 Macrocarpon^ or long fruit. Both kinds have various names : 



* Travels, iv. p. 255. 



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