cultivating in England. By Mr. John Lindley. 109 



Chapada. The Nangka is a coarse fruit related to the Bread- 

 fruit, which it also resembles in figure, and is not much in 

 esteem among Europeans on account of its strong taste. It is, 

 however, well suited to the native palate, and is consumed even 

 in greater quantity than the Banana. Sometimes it grows to an 

 enormous size, weighing in some instances fifty or sixty pounds.* 

 Rumphius has represented it in Vol. i. plate 30, and there is a 

 figure of it among the Oriental Drawings of the Society. 



The Champadak in appearance is the same as the Nangka, 

 but is much smaller, more slender in its form, and of a more 

 oblong shape. It has also a sweeter and more delicate 

 flavour.f The outer coat is rough, containing a number of 

 seeds or kernels, which when roasted have the taste of 

 Chestnuts ; they are enclosed in a fleshy somewhat farina- 

 ceous substance, of a rich, and, as some say, to strangers too 

 strong smell and flavour, but which gains upon the palate. \ 

 The flesh is more yellow than in the Nangka, is more juicy, 

 and resembles ripe Grapes or Strawberries. The fruit which 

 ripens on the tree has an exceedingly delicate flavour, with a 

 grateful acid, but if gathered before maturity it becomes soft 

 and loses much of its freshness. j| By the natives it is much 

 more valued than the Nangka, and bears a higher price. It 

 does not thrive in the close gardens which surround the Indian 

 villages, but requires sunny solitary situations.§ It is figured 

 by Rumphius, Vol. i. plate 31, and in a Volume of the Society's 

 Oriental Drawings. This I take to be what Van Linschoten 

 calls Barca, of which he says the taste is various, " sometimes 



* Marsden, page 98. Crawfurd, Vol. i. page 422. 



f Crawfurd, Vol. i. page 423. J Marsden, page 99. 



[j Rumphius, Vol. i. page 108. § Crawfurd, Vol. i. page 423. 



