By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



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loping the seeds) of which the Negroes are fond, its flavour 

 being similar to that of the Monkey bread. Plants of the 

 Nety tree have been raised in the Garden of the Society 

 from seeds sent home by Mr. Don. 



It is the same as that mentioned by Park, in his account 

 of his first Journey into the interior of Africa,* as a Mimosa 

 called by the Negroes Nitta, which furnished a nutritive and 

 agreeable food from its seed pods, and as being abundant 

 near the town of Manna. 



Country Cherries. 



It is probable that the fruit seen by Mr. Don, under the 

 above name, is different from that called the Country Cherry-f 

 by Afzelius, who compares it to a fine Nectarine ; or if it 

 should be the same, it is by no means deserving of the praise 

 bestowed on it by that writer. The tree is found in the 

 mountains, though very rarely; it is of considerable size, 

 growing to the height of forty feet or more ; it has large dark- 

 green pinnated leaves. The fruit is oval, about equal to a 

 good sized Gooseberry, and is of a reddish colour, in flavour 

 somewhat similar to a common Plum; it is produced in 

 clusters, from the extremities only of the topmost branches 

 of the tree. 



Specimens of the fruit, but without either leaves or flowers, 

 were preserved by Mr. Don, and the character of that is hardly 

 sufficient to enable us to determine its place in the general sys- 

 tem; it seems to approach to Jussieu's order of Terebintaceae, 

 and may perhaps be related to Canarium. 



* First Edition, page 337. 



t See Afzelius's Report, page 233. No. 45. 



