230 Fruits of Cuba. 
Rogers in a note, makes the Guanabana, and not the 
Mamey, the favorite food of spirits. — * They eat of the 
fruit called Guanàba." 
In the centre of the fruit is a stone or seed, of size 
corresponding to the fruit, brown and very shagg 
Within the rough shell, is a large meat, of the peculiar 
bitter taste of the peach-stone meat, but more delicate, 
which is much used for the flavoring of noyeau, and 
other cordials. Sometimes there are two of ont 
stones, and sometimes three. 
Maneirera Inpica, or pomestica. The celebrated 
Mango is now quite common in Cuba, though it was’ 
introduced from the East Indies not many years ago. 
Grainger never mentions it in his poem, which is’ proof 
that he never saw it, for it is not a fruit to be passed 
over. Hughes, in his History of Barbadoes, speaks of 
a young tree which had just come into bearing, as.of a 
great novelty in that island, and gives a plate of it, 
which is barely tolerable. ‘I have seen young men who 
have told me, that within their memory, the mango was 
a scarce fruit in Cuba, being sold in the market for a 
medio, or the sixteenth of a dollar apiece. "The same 
money will now buy almost any quantity you may want 
toeat. The climate and soil of the country have agreed 
with the trees so well, that in some places they have 
multiplied spontaneously into groves and even forests, | 
and they bear in the greatest profusion. 
The tree is one of the most beautiful of fruit trees. 
The leaves are long, lanceolate, polished, hanging in 
dense masses of dark green foliage,—so dark, that the 
orange trees look quite light by their side. The trunk 
