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arife. Thefe pedicles are (hort, and 

 covered with clufters of pentapetalous 

 flowers, of a yellowifh white colour, 

 which are fragrant, and ufed for Sweet 

 Meats and Confe&ions. The Poppau 

 fruit, when young and fmall, make 

 excellent pickles. They are of an oval 

 form, about fix inches in length when 

 ripe; at which time they change from 

 a green to a yellow colour. Their ex- 

 ternal fubftance refembles that of a 

 Pumpion ; and is boiled and eaten, 

 when the fruit is near ripe; the milky 

 cauftic juice which it contains being 

 firft fuffered to exude. Within the 

 external fubftance is a cavity filled 

 with a foft pulp, intermixed with nu- 

 merous fmall feeds. — The Male Pop- 

 pau differs from the Female in two 

 particulars. It produces no fruit ; and 

 the pedicles, to which its flowers adhere, 

 are near three feet in length. 



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