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Hulletia dumosa . — A low shrub, with oddly shaped triangul ar 
rounded orange fruits with one or two seeds enclosed in a sweet 
pulp occurs in the hill forests. The fruits -are eatable and pleasan t. 
P Treculia africana.—h large handsome African tree is grown 
the Botanic Gardens. The fruit like that ot an Artocarpus is large 
and almost pear shaped. It is quite uneatable but the seeds are 
roasted and P eaten like chestnuts. They are not large, nor muc 
better than numbers of other seeds of the kind. 
EUPHORBIACE^. 
The greater number of the plants of this large order are poison- 
ous and so supply no eatable fruits. The great exception is in the 
genus Baccaurea of which the best here is B. Motleyana the 
Rambai a tree very common in cultivation, and possibly wild. It 
is a medium sized tree, with the flowers in long racemes from the 
branches They are unisexual, the female flowers being the largest 
and some trees are practically males, either bearing no female 
flowers or only a few abortive ones. The fruit is borne in long 
hanging racemes and resemble Dukus in appearance, being e >P 
smooth and light buff colour, with a thin rind enclosing three flat 
green seeds enclosed in a semitranslucent pulp. Good trees pro 
duce large quantities of fruits, but there is a considerable difference 
„ the qfalitv. Of some trees, the fruit is acid, in others sweet and 
tasting*^ like grapes. The Rambai can be eaten raw or stewed, and 
' l There ITJouTor two other Baccaureas of which the fruit is eat- 
able and a popular one is the Tampoi B. Malayana, this has 
globose fruit with a thick brown rind which splits in Three and seeds 
Enclosed in pulp similar to those of the Rambai, The tree is smaller 
' and not very often cultivated though the fruits are sold in the 
^^"S^fMuell. Arg. ‘Setamboiv is a small tree 12 or 15 feet 
tall ^Vhe flowers of which are borne in racemes at the base of the 
stems They are strictly unisexual the trees being male or female 
The male flowers are yellow, and scented like Cowslips. The fruit 
is peculiar it is fusiform about an inch long pointed at. both ends, 
claret colored and borne often in great abundance forming a gieat 
pfle on the ground at the base of the stem. It is quite eatable, rind 
and all though acid and would probably be best r ooked. 
Cicca aJissima, Chermei, is a small tree with pinnate foliage 
and green drupes with a hard central stone, borne on the stems and 
wood of the older branches. It is a native of India and is worth 
cultivating. The fruit is too acid to be eaten raw but make., ex- 
rellent oies, stewed with plenty of sugar. 
The Malakka, Phyllanthus pectmatus a small or medium sized 
tree with featherv foliage has somewhat similar fruit, but it is in- 
ferior as the amount of flesh on ^comparatively large stone, Is 
less It is eaten by natives, and is common 111 our woods. 
The P’rah tree, Elateriospermum fapos, is a very handsome 
forest tree common in some of the hill woods. he seed is said to 
be an important article of diet witli the Sakais, who assemble in the 
localities P where it is abundant when the crop is ripe, and live upon it. 
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