118 Sketch of the Tropical Fruits likely to be worth 



Wall-flower.* Sir William Jones has described it in the 

 Asiatic Researches under the name of Bilva or Malura. 

 It is also called Srfphala, because it sprang, say the Indian 

 poets, from the milk of Sri, the Goddess of Abundance.+ 

 Rumphius says it is best roasted in ashes, by which it is de- 

 prived of a considerable portion of the insipid mucous matter 

 which it contains. J The people of Surat send the fruits 

 as a present to the king of Macassar. || There is a good 

 figure of it in Roxburgh's Plants of the Coast of Coro- 

 mandel, plate 143. 



The Yellanga of the Telingas (Feronia elephantum), the 

 Elephant or Wood-apple tree of the English, is a moderately 

 sized tree with pinnate leaves and prickly branches. The 

 flowers are like those of the Maredoo, but smaller. The fruit 

 is the size of a large Apple, and covered with a hard, gray, 

 scabrous, woody rind. The seeds are attached to five recep- 

 tacles running up the inside of the cavity, and forming, by the 

 approximation of their inner angles, a stellate appearance 

 when the fruit is cut across. The pulp is universally eaten 

 on the coast of Coromandel.§ Roxburgh has given a figure 

 of it at plate 141. 



Latti Am (Willughbeia edulis) is a name given by the 

 inhabitants of Chittagong, Silhet, &c. to a rambling climbing 

 plant with opposite oblong-lanceolate leaves, and little white 

 flowers growing from their axillae. The fruit is of a dark 

 orange colour, the size of a large Lemon, and filled with a 

 soft yellowish pulp in which are immersed a few seeds the size 



* Bontius, lib. 6. cap. 8. 



t Rumphius, Vol. i. page 198. 



§ Roxburgh, Vol. ii. page 22. 



f Asiatic Researches, Vol ii. page 349. 

 || Ibid. 



