AM) AMKK1C.YN LITEKATU; I. 



1^1 chi and DimOCQfpUS L<n\\)nn. This is followed with a descrip- 

 tion of these fruits, with a record of the fruiting of the longan in a 

 "stove 1 ' erected by John Knight, Esq., of Lee Castle for the pur- 

 pose of growing tropical fruits. This report contains a handsome 

 drawing of a bearing twig of these lonffons. It states that these 

 fruits, natives of the southern part of China, have been transferred to 

 different places in the East Indies. Edwards' s Botanical Register 1 

 published in London in 1835 deals with the "Longan Tree" under 

 the name of Euphoria Lonyan and states that the lychee and lungan 

 are two of the finest fruits that the Chinese possess. He says, 

 'They have, when imported, a brown shell, which in the former is 

 prickly, in the latter simply warted, and contain a single seed sur- 

 rounded by a succulent aril, having much the taste of an excellent 

 raisin, only rather more vinous." He says that this species seldom 

 flowers in England and has produced at only one place; namely at 

 Mr. John Knight's. He quotes in full from the Transactions of the 

 Horticultural Society in London and supplements the drawing therein 

 contained by one of a similar twig in flower. Robert Fortune : , 

 Botanical Collector to the Horticultural Society of London in the 

 second edition, 1847, of his Three Years Wanderings in the 

 Xorthcrn Provinces of China, including a Visit to the Tea, tiilk, 

 and Cotton Countries, mentions among trees growing over the plains 

 and near the sides of the river, the leechet and lonyan. In his 

 chapter on "Native Fruits, " he says, " What may be more properly 

 called Chinese fruits, such as the leechees, longans and wangpees, 

 are, however, excellent, the climate suiting them admirably. When 

 I was here [in July], the leechee trees were covered with their fine 

 red fruits, and were very beautiful, the fruit contrasted so well with 

 the deep clear green foliage " 



Alphonso de Candolle ' in his Oriyin of Cultivated Plants, 

 second edition, 1886, deals with the litchi, longan and rambutan 

 all under the generic name of Ncphelium. He says that it does not 



1 Edwards' s Botanical Register; or ornamental flower-garden and 

 shnHibery, New Series, Vol. 7. London: James Ridgway and Sons, 

 Piccadilly, 1835, No. 1729. 



2 Fortune, Robert, Three years wanderings in the northern provinces of 

 China, including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries with an account 

 of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. Second 

 Edition. London: John Murray, J847, page 384. 



? Candolle, Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus de, Origin of cultivated 

 plant.*, Second edition, London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1, Paternoster 

 Square. ISHft, jrigcs 314, .'Ho and ttlfi. 



