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of the fruit used is the juicy aril surrounding the seed, which is of a 
fleshy consistency, and possesses a sharply acid, flavour, well suiting it 
Eugenia, a larg rd 
furnishes several species whose fruits are used by the settlers for a 
and-wine making. Some of the kinds have received distinctive | 
narrow leaves. The fruit is pear-shaped, about 13 inches long, and bi 
diameter of over 1 inch at the larger end, rosy on the side expos 
the sun, the rest of a pale colour nearly white. The flesh is f 
and well-flayoured, and used by the settlers in the district where ™ 
grows for jam-making. x | 
E. grandis, Wight, called “ White Appie,” is a large ee 
tropical Queensland, which bears a great quantity of round, pel 
somewhat insipid fruit, 2 inches in diameter. This is used for jm 
making by the settlers. . § this | 
E. hemilampra, F.v. M.—During July and: August trees 0 wh 
species may frequently be met with in the Bumundi serubs laden tion 
fruit, which is Seared and sharply acid, and worthy the aiat is 
of settlers for jam and jelly making. A description of the, ane He 
given in my Botany Bulletin No. 9. a 
E. Johnsonii, F.v.M.—Hitherto this species has only been ™ 
with in one locality in tropical Queensland. » Its fruit has @ 80 eter, 
aromatic flayour, and it is said to attain an inch or more i pe : 
so when better known is likely to be utilised as the acti 
EB. myrtifolia, Sims., “The Scrub Cherry,” is @ 8m8" : 
tree of Seiten Queensland, which about August produces # ie 
quantity of pretty red-coloured fruit of an agreeable eptentet 
: e jam and wine ma 6 
r, 1894, fruit was abundant at Eumundi. fon 
E. Tierneyana, ¥.v. M., and E£. Wilsonii, F. v. M. Soa i 
species), are largely used for jam-making in the districts where © 
baat 
‘The above six indigenous species are quite as well roe . 
cultivation as such fruits as the well-known Brazilian 
E, uniflora—which one meets in most Queensland gardens. 
Garcinia.--This important genus of the order, OU bere ty pd 
ae na Australia until t 
