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« sent the Society green and ripe fruits at different eens but at the 
& Jast flower show I submitted 24 rive fruits for exhibition. This fruit 
‘promises to become a most valuable acquisition to Sontherh India 
“ as a vegetable and fruit producing tree. They not only thrive well 
« on these mews from 1,000 to 5,000 feet, but they have also succeeded 
“ well in Travancore and other localities to which I have distribute 
i the soi collected from trees grown i re. 
i They might be aii for its Brinjal (Solanum I) were it 
“ not for the acid flavour it imparts to a stew or curry. Iam ibe 
“to Mr. D. Morris, Director of the Botanical Garden ns, Jama 
“ for a supply of se eds independent of tnt I received from the Sostaty, 
* and which I fave distributed far and wid 
Dr. George King, F.R.S., EINE of the Botanical Gardens, 
Calcutta, states that Tree Tomato is established at Darjeeling and is a 
most useful introduction. 
It appears also to have been successfully introduced into the North- 
west Provinces, and is noticed by Mr. Duthie in the e — in 
his Annual Report on the Saharunpur Gardens for the year 1 
“ This plant is thriving as well as could be desired in the diini of 
“ Arnigádh. It has not as yet produced fruit, but I expect to see a 
“ crop this season. It has withstood the winter ‘without any protection, 
and has thus proved to be quite hardy at this elevation. The plant is 
“ common in the gardens. At present the stock of plants numbers 50.” 
At Hong Kong the Tree Tomato is established, and has produced 
crops of fruit which, however, owing to unfavourable weather had not 
ripened during the past year. 

XIV.—CHOCHO. 
(Sechium edule, Sw.) 
This is a cucurbitaceous plant well known in Tropical America, where 
its wholesome fruit is commonly used by all classes as an article of food. 
In Brazil it is called Chuchu, in Jamaica Chocho, in the French Islands 
Christophine, in the English colonies Vegetable pear, at Madeira 
Pipinella, Chayota, or Chahiota 
The plant is a climber with three to fiv e-cleft tendrils, and a smooth 
somewhat stout stem rising from a very large fleshy perennial root 
having the appearance of a yam. The leaves are heart-shaped, rough to 
thin almond. „There are two marked varieties, (a) with flower fend 
fruit of a pale aod a âid D with flower and fruit rather larger, 
cream coloured o 
a West Tada Sat reference is made to the oe by Hans 
fisan and Patrick Browne, but it was first described a amed by 
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