124 Sketch of the Tropical Fruits likely to be worth 



size and shape of an Apple with a reddish orange coloured 

 skin; the flesh is semi-transparent, brown, soft, and pulpy, 

 with a most agreeable honey-like flavour. In the inside are 

 several hard seeds. Of the varieties the chief are, 



1. OnoKaki, of which the fruits are like an Orange ; being 

 dried in the sun and mixed with sugar, they are preserved 

 and sold as Figs. 



2. Kineri Kaki, of which the fruit is not fit for drying, 

 but must be eaten fresh. 



3. Ssibu Kaki, of which the fruit is bitter and not fit to 

 eat * Two varieties are figured among the Oriental Draw- 

 ings of the Society. 



The Lofigan or Long-yen, and the Li-tchi, two species of 

 Dimocarpus, are held in high estimation, and are cultivated 

 in considerable variety ;+ the inhabitants eat them with 

 tea.J To the account in the Transactions of the Society,|| 

 I find it necessary to add nothing, except that the trees 

 bear fruit much more quickly when raised from cuttings 

 than they do if reared from seeds, requiring eight or nine 

 years in the latter case, and only three or four in the former.4. 

 The fruit of the Long-yen which was produced at Mr. 

 Knight's of Lee Castle seems to have been in every respect 

 as good as any grown in China. 



The Loquat (Eriobotrya japonicaff), has also frequently 



* Kaempfer, Amoenitates exoticae, page 806. 



f Carey's Hortus Bengalensis, page 28. + Osbeck's Voyage, Vol. i. page 308. 

 j| Horticultural Transactions, Vol. ii. page 402. 



4. Sonnerat Voyage aux Indes, Vol. ii. page 230. Lamarck Encyclopedia, 

 Vol. iii. page 574. 



ff This is the Mespilus japonica figured in the Horticultural Transactions. 

 Vol. iii. page 299. plate 11. 



