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contraction about its middle. Nothing can be more beautiful 

 than the blossoms both of this and Jambu Kling, the numerous 

 stamina of which are of the most brilliant pink colour. It is 

 indifferently figured by Rumphius, Vol. i. plate 38, fig. 2, and 

 very well among the Society's Oriental Drawings. Among the 

 unpublished drawings of Java plants, (No. 68,) preserved in the 

 Banksian Herbarium, the fruit is represented as quite white. 



Jambu utan puti (Eugenia Jambos) has leaves much like 

 those of Jambu Kling, but its flowers are white and larger. 

 The fruit is as large as a hen's egg, with the colour and 

 flavour when fresh of a ripe Apricot. It is figured in Rum- 

 phius, Vol. i. plate 39, and is common in the gardens of this 

 country. Mr. Cattley has a plant which regularly yields 

 him an abundance of fine fruit. 



The famous Mango (Mangifera Indica), which, though 

 only known to residents in Europe as an excellent pickle, 

 forms one of the chief delicacies of an Indian dessert, and is 

 even said by some to be inferior only to the Mangustin, is the 

 produce of a large tree like a Walnut, with long lanceolate 

 leaves and upright pyramidal bunches of small whitish flowers. 

 The fruit when ripe is shaped like a short thick Cucumber ; 

 generally of the size of a goose's egg ; its colour at first is bright 

 green, but it afterward changes to orange on one side, or all 

 over, frequently, however, continuing always green. Under 

 a thin skin, which is stripped off like that of a Peach, is a 

 tender fibrous flesh, so exceedingly juicy and delicate, that 

 every part of it may be sucked up. When not ripe it is 

 sourish, but being fully mature has so gratefully sweet a 

 flavour that nothing can excel it; always, however, with a 

 slight degree of acidity. The fruit is not perfectly ripe till 



