cultivating in England. By Mr. John Lindley. 97 



The Mammee Sapota, or Bally-berry || (Achras mammosa), 

 has a trunk three feet high. The leaves are obovate, blunt, 

 very large, and clustered about the ends of the twigs. 

 The flowers are cream coloured ; the fruit oblong, tapering 

 to both ends, two or three inches long, and in the middle as 

 thick as a man's arm ; it is covered with a rough cinnamon, 

 or russet-coloured skin, having several irregular eminences 

 and depressions upon it. The pulp is half or three-quarters 

 of an inch thick, of the same colour as the skin, of a sweet 

 and luscious taste. From its resemblance in colour to the 

 Marmalade of Quinces, it is called Natural Marmalade. 

 Within the pulp is one large stone. It is highly esteemed, 

 eaten either alone, or, on account of its sweetness, with lemon 

 juice* There is a good figure of it in Sloane, plate 218. 



The Mammee (Mammea Americana), is a nearly round 

 yellow fruit, standing on a short thick footstalk, and resem- 

 bling a russet Apple of the largest size. The rind peels off 

 as the bark of some trees does in the spring, and discovers 

 the eatable part, which is of a pretty solid consistence, and 

 of a fine yellow colour, about half an inch thick, and enclosing 

 two or three stones with bitter kernels. The flesh is at first 

 milky, but when ripe has a very delicious, sweetish acid 

 taste, and in fragrance does not yield to any fruit known. + 

 Browne, however, says the taste is too strong and gross for 

 a weak stomach, and leaves a bitterness behind it, which 

 continues for a considerable time on the palate. J The tree 

 grows to the size of the largest oak ; the leaves are oblong, 

 obtuse, with very many fine, closely set, parallel veins. || 



* Sloane, Vol. ii. page 324. f Stedman, Vol. ii. page 76. Hughes, page 133. 

 Sioane, Vol. ii. page 123. + Browne, page 249. || Sloane, Vol. ii. page 123, 



