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Anona Senegalensis, the African custard apple, about the 

 size of a pigeon's egg. 



Adansonia digitata, monkey bread; fruit large, oblong, 

 farinaceous, tasting like gingerbread. 



Inga biglobosa, locust tree ; the pods contain a farinaceous 

 substance enveloping the seeds, similar in flavor to the monkey 

 bread, and eaten by the negroes. 



Country cherries ; the species producing them unknown. 



Anisophylleia laurina, monkey apple ; the size of a pigeon's 

 egg, and in flavor between a nectarine and a plum. 



Vitis cassia, country grapes ; small, austere, and acid ; the 

 plant in some degree herbaceous. 



Country currants, resembling elderberries ; the plant pro- 

 bably an Antidesma. 



Ficus Brassia, in memory of Mr. William Brass, a col- 

 lector in 1782 and 1783, who sent it from Cape Coast. A 

 large fruit, like the white ischia fig. 



Small fig, species not known. 



Psidium pyriferum, wild guavas, rather smaller than the 

 guavas of the West Indies. 



Spondias myrobalanus, hog-plum ; the tree like an ash ; 

 the fruit the size of a wallnut ; in taste and consistency not 

 unlike our common plum. 



Parinarium excelsum, rough-skinned plum; a timber tree, 

 with fruit like the imperatrice plum, in size and shape ; the 

 skin rough and greyish, and the pulp dry, farinaceous, and 

 insipid. 



Parinarium macrophyllum, ginger bread plum ; the fruit 

 twice the size of the last; grown on a very handsome shrub. 



Chrysobalanus ellipticus, small pigeon plum, about the size 

 of a large damson. 



Chrysobalanus luteus, yellow pigeon plum ; shaped like an 

 Orleans plum. 



Sugar plum, of the size of the bullace plum, growing on 

 a plant which throws out roots from its stem, from the height 

 of upwards of ten feet, like a mangrove or a pandanus, by 

 which singular character it may be distinguished at a consider- 

 able distance. 



Vitex umbrosa, black plum ; the tree resembles the horse 

 chesnut ; the fruit was not seen by Mr. Don. 



Carpodinus dulcis, sweet pishamin, a climbing shrub, with 

 fruit resembling a lime. 



Mammea Africana, mammee apple; a lofty timber tree, 

 with fruit the size of a man's fist, and of equal excellence 

 with the West India mammee. 



Pentadesma butyracea, butter and tallow tree ; a timber tree 

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