cultivating in England. By Mr. John Lindley. 1 ! 1 



fruit. That most esteemed for the table, and the largest, 

 is the Jambu Merah or Kling, (Eugenia malaccensis.) This 

 resembles in shape a Pear ; the outer skin, which is very fine, 

 is tinged with a deep and beautiful red, the inside being 

 perfectly white. Nearly the whole substance is edible, and 

 when properly ripened is delicious ; but when otherwise is 

 spongy, and indigestible. In smell and even in taste it par- 

 takes much of the flavour of the Rose,* on which account it 

 is frequently called Rose Apple. This I suppose to be the 

 Jambosa nigra figured by Rumphius, Vol. i. plate 38, and in 

 the Oriental Drawings of the Society's Library. There is a sort 

 with pale rose-coloured fruit, which is very highly esteemed 

 and more generally cultivated than the last,-f figured by Rum- 

 phius under the name of Jambosa domestica, Vol. i. plate 

 37, and in a volume of the Society's Oriental Drawings. The 

 same author speaks of two other Jambus, which he refers to 

 the last mentioned kind ; the one of a smaller size containing 

 a large kernel, whitish outside, with a little red on the sides, 

 less sweet, and with not so much of the Rose flavour ; the 

 other about as big as a young Cocoa-nut, called Jambu Clon- 

 cong in Macassar, quite white, and so very finely tasted as to 

 be preserved for the king of the country only.J 



Jambu ayer-mawar, or Rose-ivater Jambu (Eugenia aqueaj, 

 is in appearance more beautiful than the last, but far inferior 

 to it in flavour, although more highly perfumed with Rose. 

 Its colour is of the most delicate and transparent pink mixed 

 with white. 1 1 The fruit grows in clusters, in size is much 

 smaller than the last, in form pear-shaped with a strong 



* Marsden, page i)9. f Crawfurd, Vol. i. page 429. Rumphius, Vol. i. page 121. 

 + Rumphius, Vol. i. page 122. || Marsden, page 99- Rumphius, Vol. i. page 126. 



