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diefe fucceed the fruit, which refem- 

 bles, when ripe, a large Pear, and is 

 either red, purple, or of a light green 

 colour. The pulp, within the rind, is 

 of a foft delicate texture, and has juftiy 

 been ftiled a vegetable marrow, being 

 the moll nutritious, falubrious, and 

 agreeable, of all the tropical fruits. It 

 is ufually eaten with fait and pepper. 

 Within the pulp is contained a rinTet 

 coloured ftone, from which the tree is 

 produced. 



The CarBva Shrub is about four feet 

 in height, knotted, and covered with 

 an a£h coloured bark. Within it is 

 pithy. Near the top, it divides into 

 feveral fhort,fmall, green branches; from 

 thefe arife reddifti footftalks, a boat fix 

 inches in length, fupporting large digi- 

 tated leaves. The root is white, foft, 

 and farinaceous, of a cylindrical farm, 

 D 4 near 



