116 Sketch of the Tropical Fruits likely to be worth 



The Poolasang is a large variety of the last ; it is thought 

 the better of the two, and wants the hairy processes on its skin * 



Tomi-tomi (Flacourtia inermis) is cultivated in the Mo- 

 luccas for its pleasant edible fruit. It is a little tree bearing 

 a berry of a reddish purple colour, the size of a small Cherry, 

 and with five angles.f It is figured in Roxburgh's Coro- 

 mandel Plants, plate 222. 



Xanthochymu* dulcis, is also a native of the Molucca 

 islands, and forms a small tree with opposite oblong leaves, 

 and axillary flowers of a round shape, and greenish yellow 

 colour. The berry is the size of an Apple, of a roundish 

 oval figure, and bright yellow hue when ripe. The seeds 

 are enveloped in edible pulp of a darker colour than the 

 skin and of a pleasant taste.J It is figured in Roxburgh, 

 Vol. iii. plate 270. 



Sandorkum indicttm is another large tree found in the 

 Moluccas, with ternate leaves growing on a long stalk. 

 The flowers are small and yellow, and appear in small bunches 

 from the axillae of the leaves. The fruit is globular, the 

 size of a small Orange, and somewhat three-sided. Its colour 

 is dull yellow, and it is filled with a firm fleshy agreeable 

 acid pulp, which forms a thick covering round the gelatinous 

 substance in which the seeds are lodged. j| Rumphius says 

 it is chiefly used for culinary purposes.§ It is represented 

 in Roxburgh, Vol. iii. plate 361, and among the Oriental 

 Drawings of the Society. 



* Barrow, Cochinchina, page 186. Abel, page 277- 

 t Roxburgh's Plants of the Coast of Coromandel, Vol. iii. page 16. 

 t Ibid, page 66. || Ibid, page 57 



§ Rumphius, Vol. i page 168. 



