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On the Love Apple. 



fruit without sutures ; the third is the large Yellow Love 

 Apple ; the fourth is the large White Love Apple mentioned 

 above ; the fifth does not now exist, but was growing in the 

 Royal Garden at Paris in Tournefort's time ; the sixth is the 

 Red Cherry Love Apple ; the seventh is the Yellow Cherry 

 Love Apple ; the eighth and ninth are clearly distinct species, 

 not having any resemblance to the Tomato, either in appear- 

 ance or use. 



In addition to the Love Apples which have been here de- 

 scribed as cultivated in the European gardens, we have 

 information, through Loureiro and Rumphius, of some 

 others, which appear to be natives of the East Indies. Lou- 

 reiro* describes a plant, which he calls Solanum Lyeoper- 

 sicum, as growing (incultum) in the fields and gardens of 

 Cochin-China ; it has small leaves, and white fruit of moderate 

 size, nearly round, and three-lobed ; he does not state that 

 the produce of the plant is edible, it may however be so ; but 

 from the account he gives of it, I suspect it to be a species 

 distinct from the common Tomato. In Rumphius's Herba- 

 rium Amboinense\ are described two kinds of Poma Amoris, 

 which are used in cookery in Amboyna, and called by the 

 Malays Tamatte ; these are certainly very different from 

 those we possess in our gardens, and may be specifically 

 distinct. The first, the Tamatte Tayris, or Furrowed Tomato, 

 has leaves like our plant, with fruit, in shape resembling an 

 Orange when peeled, shewing even divisions of its lobes ; it 

 is, however, very small in size ; at first its colour is golden, 

 but it becomes a splendid red when ripe ; this is figured by 



* See Flora Cochinensis, page 130 and I SI. 

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