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223 Fruits of Cuba. 
times there are two seeds in one fruit, always — 
and beautiful, and of large size. 
There is, I believe, a variety of the Sapote which is 
oval, and not conical. But I describe the fruit as I saw 
it in the market of St. Jago, where it is quite common. 
Mammea Americana. This fruit, as its name im- 
ports, is a native American. It is commonly called the 
Mamey of St. Domingo—Mamey de Santo Domingo. 
The French also call it P Abricot de Saint Domingue ; 
and by the English it is often termed the Mamey Sa- 
pote. If the unlearned Europeans who go abroad and 
settle in foreign countries, had not by nature a beautiful 
way of confounding natural objects together, they would 
never have thought of bestowing the same name on this 
fruit which they give to fruits of the Sapotaceous family, 
which but distantly resemble it. The Mu is classed 
with the Garciniacez. 
Among the umbrageous fruit Godd; the Mamey takes 
the first place. It is a grand leafy pyramid, attaining 
the height of sixty or seventy feet, and presenting an 
aspect at the same time regular and luxuriant. The 
leaves are quite large, nearly a pafi length, of a long 
oval shape, dark green, leathery, polished and shining. 
The trunk is stout, and gives excellent timber. No 
one can behold this tree, towering in the fruit garden, 
without a sentiment of respect. Grainger, — of 
those trees which will best exclude 
:« With their vast umbrage the noon’s fervent ray,” 
pays a an tribute to this majestic plant, while he notices - 
a native superstition concerning its re 
