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on a high, wide-spreading tree. Its colour is a light 

 yellow WHl its internal seed -vessels resemble those of 

 the mangosteen very closely. The taste is, pleasant. 

 It contains more acid than the mangosteen and 

 makes excellent jelly. The Lungsat is a frnit 

 of the same cla^. Turn pool, a fruit of the man- 

 Lo>teen class, prisro-shaped, and dividing into 3 or 

 4 lobes. Sala, the fruit of the pahnite of that 

 name, pleasantly sub-acid. Biite, the papaya, which 

 is used ;ih a vegetable before rifiening. The acrid 

 juice of the rind of the fruit will dissolve a buffalo 

 hide. Tumpoonet is a yellow-colored fruit, with 

 spikes, and about the size of the liitte. The pulp 

 js delicate and slightly sub-acid ; the tree is high, 

 with clover-shaped, large leaves. Reidan is a small 

 almond-shaped, dark-red, and acid fruit of a high 

 tree of the same name. Arting Para* a species of 

 ramhutan. Sapam, a sort of wild mango, llumbin, 

 the fruit of a species of the sago palm. Sirbuyaman, 

 a fruit of a middle-sized tree ; it is about as forge as 

 a small mango, and the rind is saturated with a viscid 

 juice, like that oJ the mangosteen and sittool. To- 

 pah, resembles the Sapam ; very acid. Powah, a 

 high tree; the frnit is very acid. Sittar, an acid fruit, 

 hafoobl flie vm aeid iruit of a small palm, used in 

 seasoning dishes. Jlssqim kumbang, liawa, lino- 

 miah, Prhtf/vi, Lanjict, Blingei, are arid fruits of 

 jungle trees and used by the natives, who have a great 

 taste for sour as well as sweet things. 



TOE A NAN AS OR PINE APPLE. 

 This fruit is extensively cultivated, and if more 

 pains were bestowed on it, the quality might be 

 greatly improved. As it is, the plants* are allowed 

 to spread nutd they become an almost impassable 

 thicket. They are bm tight in cart-loads to itfe bazai> 

 md thrown down like so many turnips. A good pine 



