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at Kew, and forms amattractive mem It has also been grown toca limited 
extent in greenhouses in this country for the sake of its large pink 
flowers, which are 4 to $ inches across. 
he Nilgiris Rhodomyrtus tomentosa isa shrub 4: to 5 feet high: 
The» young branches and leaves are clothed with a thick tomentum. 
The:lower leaves are generally in threes, while the upper ones and those 
of the branches are opposite ; they are 1 to 2} inches long, with. three, 
be usefully eee both as an ornam one to Supply fruit. The 
uld 
Sechium edule.—This cucurbitaceous plant, bémmofly known in the 
West Indies as the: Chocho; Christophine or Vegetable Pear, was fully 
described in the Kew Bulletin, 1887, for August, p. 6. It was there 
Sige that >“ the introduction of: this useful plant to some of our 
* possessions ‘in acu East Indies was effected during the last two or 
pea Pe years, npc very gratifying accounts have been received 
** daft. 
The followi ing exteact taken: from: ihe Annual Report. on the 
Government Gardens and Parks in Mysore for the year 1894-95, 
p. 12, shows that the Chocho has now been taken up by the natives of 
In ndia, -by- w whom it is regarded. as one of the most wholesome of 
foods :— 
f One practical outcome of the Nundydroog nursery is that the 
cultivation of * Chocho’ (Sechium edule) has been taken up in several 
villages at the foot of the hill. The labourers who are oceasionally 
employ ed from these villages will, in all venit iom utilise other garden 
produets in the same practical manner. ocho is now quite established 
as a popular vegetable in Bangalore and the adjacent villages. T 
fruit has also been widely distributed to other towns in the province. 
It is largely used in Ha Central Jail, where the fruit is ont E 
and considered one-ef the mict w esome foods for priso: It 
is not generally kno Mns cai: that the large fleshy root - the | see 
* sometimes v élghibg: nearly 20 — ean be cooked and a 
yam.” 
mai cooked, are regarded as a great deoin 
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