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filaments. The fruit is rather acid, and may be cooked with 

 sugar as a vegetable resembling apple sauce. The tannin con- 

 tent, especially of the unripe fruit, is rather high. Other uses 

 similar to tamarind pulp. 



CONDOL 



BENINCASA HISPIDA Cogn. Plate XV, fig. 1. Cod6l, T. V.; Tancuy, 

 II. 



An annual, herbaceous, tendril-bearing vine with coarse large 

 leaves and large, yellow, solitary flowers. Fruit a pepo, ellipsoid, 

 glaucous, about 30 centimeters long ; the pericarp firm ; the seeds 

 borne in the center, numerous. Tropical Asia. 



Condol is cooked in thick sirup and allowed to dry, giving a 

 popular sweetmeat. The fruit is never eaten raw, as the white 

 fluffy pulp has little taste and is unattractive. 



CIRIHUELAS 



SPONDIAS PURPUREA L. Plate XV, fig. 2. ClRULLAS, SlRlHUELAS, T.; 

 Spanish prune, Hog plum. 



A gnarled deciduous tree, the leaves pinnate, the flowers very 

 small, purplish, appearing before the leaves. Fruit subellip- 

 soid, smooth, about 3 centimeters long, purplish, the pulp scant, 

 yellowish, surrounding the single large stone-like seeds. Trop- 

 ical America. 



The skin is thick, and the scant pulp possesses a peculiar 

 sweetish taste. The fruit is sold in considerable amount during 

 the season, and is eaten largely by children. Unimportant. 



BIGNAY 



ANTIDESMA BUNIUS Spreng. Plate XVI, fig. 1. 



A dioecious tree, 4 to 10 meters high, quite glabrous. Leaves 

 simple, glossy, 8 to 20 centimeters long, the spikes of small 

 flowers terminal or axillary, simple, slender, 5 to 15 centimeters 

 long. Flowers greenish, numerous. Fruit, when fresh, globose 

 or ovoid, red, acid, edible, about 8 millimeters long; when dry, 

 compressed and wrinkled, borne in rather dense cylindric spikes. 



The fruit is plentiful in all parts, and is eaten with fish for 

 its agreeable acid flavor. 



