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The fruit, which in the vicinity of Calcutta is produced about 

 the end of June, is about the size and form of a marble, of a 

 russet colour, and borne in bunches like Grapes. The fleshy 

 part of the fruit, which resembles that of the Lichee, is sweetish, 

 and, though not disagreeable, is vapid and vastly inferior in 

 flavour to the Lichee. The mode of cultivation is the same as 

 for the Lichee. 



Nephelium lappaceum. 



EAMBOUTAN. 



A fruit-tree, native of the Malay Islands, nearly allied to the 

 Lichee and Longan. Of the merit of the fruit I possess no 

 information. Dr. Yoigt states that for sixteen years from the 

 time of its introduction into the Calcutta Botanical Gardens 

 the tree had not flowered there. It does not appear to be in 

 existence there now. 



Pierardia sapida. 

 Lutqua. 



A small tree, native of Burmah and Eastern Bengal. 



The fruit, which, like that of the Lichee, is borne in large 

 clusters, is said to be equal in point of merit to either the Lichee 

 or the Loquat, which latter it resembles. Koxburgh describes 

 it as an agreeable fruit, round, of the size of a Gooseberry, 

 smooth and yellow, and cultivated by the Chinese under the 

 name of Lutqua. 



The tree abounds* in Sylhet and Burmah, but appears to be 

 hardly known in Calcutta. Formerly there were fruit-bearing 

 trees in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens six or ten feet high, 

 introduced from Tipperah, of the produce of which the malees 

 there still speak in high praise. But these were cut down many 

 years ago, and now none but young plants are to be found there. 

 It is a very common tree in the district about Gowhatti in 

 Assam. Its fruit, which it produces in large den^e bunches, 

 in great abundance at the end of June and beginning of July, is 

 of a roundish form, and in outward appearance bears a strong 

 resemblance to a yellow Plum. It has a dense leathery rind, 

 and contains, or rather is all but filled up with, three or four 

 large seeds, each surrounded with a tough kind of pulp, which 

 can hardly be said to be more than just moistened by the small 



