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try near the sea. It is Garcinia Hombroniana, and is readily dis- 

 tinguished by its smaller cream coloured flowers and red fruit. 

 The rind of which is very much thinner than that of the Mangos- 

 teen and has the scent of apples. The pulp of the seeds is more 

 scanty than that of the Mangosteen and somewhat acid, but has a 

 very delicate flavour of peaches, on the whole it has the making of 

 a very superior fruit, or would very much improve the common 

 Mangosteen if it could be crossed with it. Unfortunately, it does 

 not, as a rule, flower at the same time, so that it has not been possi- 

 ble to effect the cross. 



Another distinct set of Garcinias is the group which has a soft 

 usually yellow or orange acid outer rind, and much smaller stigmas, 

 several of these are eatable. One of them is Garcinia nigro/ineata, 

 Planch, the Kandis a common tall and slender jungle tree about 60 

 feet high, with generally at least unisexual flowers, small bright 

 yellow and small oval fruit about an inch and a half long, orange 

 colour. The pulp of the seeds is very sweet and pleasant and al- 

 though the fruit is small, it is worth eating, though hardly worth 

 cultivating. 'I he tree occurs in woods over a good part of the 

 Peninsula and when it fruits generally does so abundantly. On one 

 occasion having collected a good quantity I had them stewed, but 

 the result was not very satisfactory, the rind became rather tough 

 and its acid somewhat spoiled the sweet pulp. 



There are several others of this group of Garcinias which are 

 known as Kandis. Among them Kandis Gajah, Garcinia Griffithii, 

 is a fairly tall tree with very large leaves, and large round fruit 

 flattened at the top, and of a russet colour, much resembling an 

 apple at first sight. The fruit is very acid, but is sometimes cooked 

 by Malays. 



By far the best of these is however the Asam Gelugur (67. atro- 

 viridisi) a very handsome tree with deep green leaves, the young 

 shoots bright pink, large crimson flowers, and a large round fruit 

 flattened at both ends and grooved from top to bottom regularly 

 all round. It is of a beautiful orange yellow colour. The outer 

 rind is firm textured but not at all tough and inside are the seeds 

 covered with a rather thin translucent pulp. This rind is too acid, 

 to eat raw, but when stewed with plenty of sugar it makes a most 

 excellent dish. The Malays cut or break it up into its segments, 

 dry it in the sun and eat it with curry. The tree which is a native 

 of the Peninsula is not exceedingly common, but fairly abundant in 

 some places and might be cultivated more abundantly. It would 

 probably make an excellent jam. 



The Mundu, Garcinia dtilcis, is a native of the Malay Islands. 

 It is a tree with rather large dark green leaves, and a yellow egg- 

 shaped fruit, not very common in the Straits but occurring here and 

 the re in villages. I he fruit is eaten to a small extent by natives, 

 and I have had some very good jam made from it in Singapore 

 which much-resembled greengage jam but with a very distinct flavour. 



Garcinia cos fata, Henvsley, collected on Gunong Bubu by WRAY 

 is -aid to have also deeply grooved eatable fruit. 



G. Prainiana. — The Chekow or Cherapu or Chupu is a rather 



