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yellow flowers and foliage like that of the common Mango. The 
fruit is like a yellow Bachang but larger. 
R , umeni y a ' Bouea burmanica, Griff., is a large. tree with 
small dark green leaves and a small orange m^ngo. It is abun- 
dant in most villages. The fruit is popular with natives but is too 
acid to eat raw. ft is good however stewed with plenty of sugar. 
, Kundangan, g macvophylla , has larger leaves and fruit, 
e latter as large as a hen^s egg, is yellow with a thin skin, very 
juicy with a mango flavour. In appearance and texture ft suggests 
a plum, and is really a good fruit. The tree fruits heavily and is 
very abundant in Malacca. Fruiting in July. 
The Cashew-nut, Anacardium occidentale , though doubtless in- 
troduced from South America has established itself in many parts 
of the Peninsula especially along the sea coasts where sandy. It 
is a low much branched straggling tree with rather large leaves 
and pink flowers. The fruit has a pear-shaped swollen red pe- 
duncle on the top of which is the kidney-shaped fruit. The pedun- 
cle is very juicy and somewhat swee't, with an astringent after 
taste. It is rather a poor fruit on the whole, and the best way of 
using it is to squeeze the peduncle into a glass, and add some 
sugar so as to make a drink of it. The nut can be eaten raw or 
parched, requiring, however, the black skin of the kernel to be first 
removed. I he fruit in the Straits is usually very small, and very 
inferior to the Cashew of South America. 
The Hog plum, Spondias dulcis, a native of the Polynesian Islands 
has been cultivated successfully in the Straits, and there were 
formerly some good fruiting trees on the Chasseriau Estate in 
Singapore. The fruit is something like a small Mango, it is called 
Kadondong Jawa. 
Leguminos/e. 
Cynometra caidijiora. L. The Nam-nam is a low tree or shrub' 
which produces brown oblong fleshy pods from knots on the lower 
part of the stem. They are two or three inches long, and about 
half an inch thick or larger. They are eaten raw by natives some- 
times but are best stewed. The flavour is somewhat acid. 
Diahum. The several special of Kranji produce small black 
fruit ovoid and flattened or globose. They contain a single seed, 
which is enclosed in a light brown pulp' with a pleasant flavour! 
The trees are often of enormous size, and are never cultivated 
being of very slow growth but the fruits are collected and sold in 
the markets in considerable quantities. 
The Tamarind, Tamarindus indicus , is probably a native of 
Africa, but has long been cultivated in India, being recorded thence 
from the earliest times. The tree is often to be seen in villages, 
but seems to grow best on the sea coast. It attains a good size! 
but seems here at least to be slow in fruiting. The fruit is much 
used by the Malays in curries, but Europeans here rarely use them. 
In the West Indies the pods are gathered when ripe, which is 
