GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 3ai 



Mrs. Edward Wheeler for the catalogue. Many of the fruits 

 furnifli a beautiful ornament to that lady's dreffing room, imi- 

 tated in wax. I fliall prefix the Bengallian names, and then 

 endeavour to give the Linnccan. 



CuTTAL, Arlo-carpus ifttegrifulia, Hort. Kew. iii. p. 321. Linn, 

 Suppl. 412. This is defcribed and engraven in Rumpbius, i. 

 104. tab. XXX. xxxi. under the name of Soccus arboreus, major 

 Nanca. In many parts of H'mdoojlan it is called Jack. The The Jack or 

 fruit refembles that of a melon, the figure in Rumphius is Jack- J''^^^* 

 Jhapedy it is entirely covered with angular prickles, not unlike 

 cryfl:allizations, but they are {o foft as not to injure the hand. 

 The fruit grows to an enormous fize, fometimes fo large as to 

 require two fi:out men to bring it to table ; even Rumphius fays, 

 that it is frequently fo heavy that a man cannot lift it. By the 

 fize, fo vaftly fuperior to what it attains in other places, I (hould 

 conjecture it to be a gigantic variety, the fame with the 

 bread-fruit with kernels. It is wonderful that this, and fome 

 other Indian fruit, fliould ever find admittance into a de- 

 fert. Some compare the fmell to garlic, mix-d with frowfy 

 apples, others to a much more filthy thing. It grows in moft 

 parts of India and its ifles, and in ditFerent parts is known by 

 different names. It mull: be difl:inguifiied from the Arto-carpus 

 of Dofior Forjier, by its ovated undivided leaf. 



Tall. Arriani, Rer. Indie, p. 522. Corypba umbracidifera, 

 fee p. 148 of the firft volume. 



Naureal, Cocos nucifera, Coco palm, p. 118. 131. 



Cajoore, Phoenix dadfilyf era. Date palm, p. 248. The fruit 

 does not ripen to perfection in Bengal, is therefore imported. 



Bon Caujoo, Jungle dates — Cummarunga, 

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