484 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY 



various ways and is regarded as a laxative, a cure for sore throat, and 

 specially as a refrigerant for cooling bodily heat in hot periods. 



Tree Tomato (Cyphomandra betacea). — A tree-shaped, half-woody 

 plant, with large, soft, pubescent leaves. Fruit about size of a duck's 

 egg, with reddish color. It is used as a dessert fruit by those who like 

 ripe tomatoes, and when stewed with sugar it has a slight subacid 

 flavor which is much liked by most people. It also makes an excel- 

 lent jelly. 



White Sapota {Casimiroa cdulia). — A fine evergreen tree grown 

 in South Florida, Arizona, and California. Fruit about the size of a 

 Navel orange, greenish j'ellow. Flesh or pulp soft, rather rich, and 

 with a decided peach flavor. It has been said that in Mexico its use 

 as a fruit favors sound sleeping, and an infusion of the leaves is used 

 for diarrhoea. 



