918 Fruits of Cuba. 
and pullets.” So says Burnet, in his’ “Outlines of 
Botany." The juice has been preserved and sent to. 
Europe, where it has been subjected to chemical analy- 
sis, and found to bear a close affinity itself with animal 
matter; as is the case also with some of the Fungi. 
I was unacquainted with these facts when in Cuba, 
and therefore did not verify them, and do not state them 
on my own responsibility ; but I have no reason to call 
them in question. 
As the papaw is not very mdr allied to the fig) but 
is associated. with the Gourds, Melons, and Passion 
flowers, it is time to drop the generic term Carica, and 
employ that of Papaya. It may be worth while to ob- 
serve, that the tropical papaw is by no means the papaw 
of the United States; the latter being an entirely differ- 
ent fruit, and one of the Anonaces. 
CunxsoPHYLLUM CAINITO. It is called by the Span- 
iards caimito, and by the French caimite; a pretty 
name, which ought to supersede the English Star-apple. 
It belongs to the order Sapotacew, and like its congeners, 
the Achras and Lucuma, abounds in a milky juice. 
The tree is spreading, and of a moderate size. The 
leaves are dark green above, and downy beneath. The 
flowers are in small bunches, of a purple hue. — 
It is one of the handsomest of fruits, both without and 
within. One of the varieties-is of a regularly conical 
or top shape, the stalk being at the large end or base of 
the cone; with a smooth, polished, dark purple skin ; 
about the size of a’ large apple. The skin, though 
tolerably thick, is tender. : If you cut through the fruit 
transversely, there is the figure of a star in the centre or 
