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trv near the sea. It is Garciuia Hombronuina, and is readily dis- 
tinguished bv its smaller cream coloured flowers and red fruit. 
The rind of which is very much thinner than that of the Mangos- 
teen and has the scent of apples. The pulp of the seeds is more 
scanty than that of the Mangosteen and somewhat acid, but has a 
very delicate flavour of peaches, on the whole it has the making o 
a very superior fruit, or would very much improve the common 
Mangosteen if it could be crossed with it. Unfortunately, it does 
not, as a rule, flower at the same time, so that it has not been possi 
ble to effect the cross. . . , 
Another distinct set of Garcinias is the group which has a soit 
usually yellow or orange acid outer rind, and much smaller stigmas, 
several of these are eatable. One of them is Garcima nigrolincata , 
Planch, the Kandis a common tall and slender jungle tree about oo 
feet high, with generally at least unisexual flowers, small bright. 
veliow and small oval fruit about an inch and a half Jong, orange 
colour. The pulp of the seeds is very sweet and pleasant and al- 
though the fruit is small, it is worth eating, though hardl* worth 
cultivating '1 he tree occurs in woods over a good part oi the 
Peninsula°and when it fruits generally does so abundantly. On one 
occasion having collected a good quantity I had them stewed, but 
the result was not very satisfactory, the rind became rather tough 
and its acid somewhat spoiled the sweet pulp. 
There are several others of this group of Garcinias which are 
known as Kandis, Among them Kandis Gajah, Garcima Griffithii 
is a fairly tall tree with very large leaves, and arge round fruit 
flattened at the top, and of a russet colour, much resembling an 
apple at first sight. The fruit is very acid, but is sometimes cooked 
' By far the best of these is however the Asam Gelugur (O. atro - 
viridis ,) a very handsome tree with deep green leaves, the young 
shoots bright pink, large crimson flowers, and a large round fruit 
flattened at both ends and grooved from top to bottom regularly 
all round. It is of a beautiful orange yellow colour. I he outer 
rind is Hrm textured but not at all tough and inside are the seeds 
covered with a rather thin translucent pulp. 1 his rind is too acid, 
to eat raw, but when stewed with plenty of sugar it makes a most 
excellent dish. The Malays cut or break it up into its segments, 
dry it in the sun and eat it with curry. The tree which is a native 
of 'the Peninsula is not exceedingly common, but fair y abundant in 
some places and might be cultivated more abundantly. It would 
probably make an excellent jam. . , , , 
The Mundu, Garciuia dulcts. , is a native ot the Malay Islands. 
It is a tree with rather large dark green leaves, and a yellow egg- 
shaped fruit, not very common in the Straits but occurring here and 
there in villages. The fruit is eaten to a small extent by natives, 
and l have had some very good jam made from it in Singapore 
which much resembled greengage jam but with a very distinct flavour. 
Garcima costata, Hemsley, collected on Gunong Bubu by WRAY 
is said to have also deeply grooved eatable fruit. 
G. P rain tana. — The Chekow or Cherapu or Cliupu is a rather 
