108 Sketch of the Tropical Fruits likely to be worth 



pot, and a load for a man, but sometimes smaller. It grows 

 in Borneo, about the town of that name. 



Durian Cassomba, which is thought more delicate than the 

 common kind, and comprises the smaller cultivated sorts. 

 Of these some are oblong, which are considered the best, 

 especially if the skin be of an orange colour, and the tubercles 

 few, obtuse, and distant from each other. The fruit has only 

 one or two kernels in each cell, and is very full of pulp. 

 Some of this sort have fruit like the common kind, but the 

 rind is deep yellow, and reddish inside. The Durian Manka 

 may be referred to this section ; it has a soft flesh to the 

 kernel, and is less esteemed than the others. 



A sort which is rounder and smaller than the others, has a 

 greater number of kernels, and a more watery flesh. A variety 

 of this is the Durian Babi of Banda, which is the smallest of 

 all the kinds, and has little prickles on the tubercles. It 

 contains many little kernels, but has a firmer and more abun- 

 dant flesh in proportion to its size, than the commonest kind ; 

 on which account it is reckoned better. 



Many other varieties are cultivated in Banda, but they all 

 may be reduced to the three foregoing heads.* The Durian 

 does not appear to have been discovered in its wild state, 

 but when cultivated grows readily enough in ordinary soils. 

 It is the highest priced of all the fruits of the Archipelago, 

 for one Durian costs more than a dozen Pine Apples. + It is 

 figured in Rumphius, Vol. i. plate 29, and there are drawings 

 of it in a volume of Oriental Fruits belonging to the Society. 



Of the Jack fruit (Artocarpus integrifolia) there are two 

 sorts, the common Jack, or Nangka, and the Chdmpadak> or 



* Kumphius, Vol. i. page 100. f Crawfurd, Vol. i- page 42 1 . 



