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Fruits of Cuba. 239 
Pimicum, or the Carthaginian apple. Its specific name 
appears in the English Pomegranate, or apple full of 
seeds, and also in the French Granade, and the Spanish 
Granada. . 
The tree, or ind is common in our green-houses, 
and the fruit is now and then to be seen in our market. 
I will only say of the former, that it resembles in ap- 
pearance,,as it is also naturally allied with, the bushy 
plants of the order Myrtacez ; and of the latter, that it 
is round in form, terminated with a tall and deeply cleft 
coronet; and full of small seeds which are enclosed sep- 
arately in portions of a transparent red pulp, firm, glis-. 
tening like: rubies. These’ grains furnish a refreshing 
juice, in which sweetness, and acidity seem blended in 
equal proportions. I have seen the plant occasionally 
in the city, of St. Jago, lighting up some small yard with 
its fresh and varied beauty, and also fleurishing here and 
there on a plantation walk. The ripe fruit, sometimes 
bursting and disclosing its gems, the shapely green fruit, 
the rich red blossoms, all hanging together on the slender 
pensile stems of the bush, bun one of the pleasantest of 
garden sights. 
T AMARINDUS OCCIDENTALIS. Tamarindo ; the Tam- 
arind. {have employed the specific name OCCIDENTA- 
Lis, because it has been adopted by late botanists to 
distinguish the West, Indian tamarind. As it seems to 
differ, however, from the Tamarinpus Inpica, or East 
Indian tamarind, in no other respect than merely having 
shorter pods or fruit, it hardly deserves to be esteemed 
but as a variety of that species. ! 
dti is one. of the Leguminose, and the tree has all the 
