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LXX. Some Account of the Edible Fruits of Sierra Leone. 

 Drawn tip by Joseph Sabine, Esq. F. R. S. $c. Secretary, 

 from the Journal and personal Communication of Mr. 

 George Don, A. L. S. 



Read March 18th, 1823. 



Th e cultivation of Tropical Fruits being one of the sub- 

 jects, to which it was proposed that the attention of the Hor- 

 ticultural Society, on the establishment of its Garden at 

 Chiswick, should be directed, the various Collectors employed 

 in its service, were instructed to embrace every opportunity 

 which might occur of procuring the most accurate informa- 

 tion regarding plants of this description ; and, in addition 

 to seeds and living plants, not only to get dried specimens 

 of the blossoms and leaves, prepared in the usual manner ; 

 but, in order to enable persons resident in this country to 

 form a more perfect conception of their nature than verbal or 

 written information would convey, to transmit home a suffi- 

 cient quantity of the ripe fruits, preserved in spirits. 



A visit to the colony of Sierra Leone formed part of a 

 voyage undertaken last year by Mr. George Don, with the 

 general object of collecting plants and seeds ; it fortunately 

 happened that his residence, though short at that place, oc- 

 curred in the season, when the fruits were for the most part in 

 perfection; the materials, consequently, which he obtained are 

 such as to enable me to lay before the Society a more ample 

 account of them than has hitherto been given to the public. 



