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with cream or in tarts. 1 have also eaten it as a preserve stewed 

 in syrup, and coloured red with Hibiscus flowers. 



The tree is readily grown from seed and is worth cultivating. 

 It is liable to attacks from Coecidce, . and the leaves especially in 

 weak trees are often covered with galls. 



E. jumbos, L., Jambu Kelampok, is a smaller tree of more strag- 

 gling habit with narrower lanceolate leaves and large white flowers 

 borne on the ends of the branches. It is commonly cultivated. 

 1 he fruit is the largest of all the cultivated Eugenias. Like the 

 Jambu bol it is rather flavourless and dry, but greenish white in 

 colour. "Near Calcutta the fruiting branches are covered with a 

 cloth which is believed to improve the size and flavour of the fruit. 

 A preserve is sometimes made of the fruit. " (Watt's Diet.) 



E. Javanica, Lam., is a very big tree with smaller rounded fruits 

 green or white, with us rather dry, but eaten by all classes of 

 people in India and said to be juicy and refreshing though almost 

 tasteless. 



E. aquea, Burm., Jambu Aver Mawar, Rose apple is a large or 

 medium sized shrub with white flowers on the ends of the branches. 

 The fruits are very pretty, turbinate about an inch across the top, 

 white, pink, or dark rose colour and translucent. The flesh soft 

 and watery with a slight rose flavour. 



The shrub fruits in May, and the fruit is very popular with 

 natives, and also used by Europeans. 



E. zeylanica, Wight, is a common sea-shore shrub with small 

 white fruits produced in considerable abundance. The fruits about 

 as large as peas, are pithy and dry but with an aromatic pleasant 

 taste. 



E. uniflora. A native of South America, is a large shrub with 

 small leaves and white flowers, the fruit of which is about an inch 

 across flattened at the top and grooved down the sides, and of a 

 bright red, somewhat suggesting a small tomato. The fruit is soft 

 sweet and with a somewhat turpentiney taste, when quite ripe its 

 flavour more resembles that of a strawberry than anything else. 

 It grows readily from seed and though not a heavy fruiter is well 

 worth growing. In Brazil it is often grown as a hedge or alley 

 plant in gardens. 



E. Braziliensis. Said to possess an excellent eating fruit, has 

 been for some years cultivated in the Botanic Gardens, but though 

 it has flowered has not fruited yet. 



The Brazil-nut, Bcrtliolletia excelsa a large tree has been cultiva- 

 ted in the Botanic Gardens since 1884, but only flowered and fruited 

 for the first time in 1897, when it produced one or two of its large 

 capsules containg the seeds known as Brazil-nuts, since then it has 

 fruited occasionally nearly every year. 



MELASTOMACE/E. 



Contain hardly any eatable fruits. Those of the Senduduk, ab- 

 surdly called the Singapore Rhododendron, Mclastoma polyanthum, 

 are sweet but rather dry. they stain the mouth black whence the 

 name of the order. 



