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OTHER SPECIES OF MURRAYA. 
M. PANICULATA Jack. 
This species is said to be a native of the East Indies. It forms a tree twenty feet high; and its flowers, which 
are white, and have the fragrance of the Jasmine, are produced in panicles. The fruit is about the size of a small 
capsicum ; it is red, and smells like a gooseberry. 
GENUS III. 
COOKIA Sonn. THE WAMPEE TREE. 
Lin. Syst. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Cuaracter.—Calyx five-cleft. Petals five, navicular, villous. Fruit baccate, somewhat globose, five-celled, but sometimes 
only one or two-celled from abortion ; cells one-seeded. 
Description, &c.—These are small trees with impari-pinnate leaves; the leaflets are alternate, and unequal 
at the base. The plants are mostly natives of China; and the genus was named in honour of Captain Cook, the 
celebrated circumnayigator, who was killed in the Sandwich Islands in 1779. 
1.—COOKIA PUNCTATA Retz. THE COMMON WAMPEE TREE. 
Synonymr.—Quinaria lansium Zowr. 
Spreciric Cuaracter.—Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, only slightly unequal at the base. 
Description, &c.—A middle-sized tree, with small white flowers, which are disposed in racemose panicles. 
The fruit is eatable; it is about the size of a pigeon’s egg, yellow on the outside, with a white pulp, which is 
sweet, but slightly acrid. This fruit is sold in the markets at Canton. In England it requires to be grown in a 
conservatory, except in the warmest parts of Devonshire, where it may be planted in the open ground; but when 
this is the case, it requires to be protected in winter, as a slight frost will lull it. 
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OTHER SPECIES OF COOKIA. 
There are several other species belonging to this genus, one of which (C. falcata) has sickle-shaped leaflets, 
and another has blue fruit. Very little, however, is known of these plants. 
OTHER GENERA BELONGING TO THE ORDER AURANTIACEA. 
FERONIA ELEPHANTUM Roxb. THE ELEPHANT APPLE. 
This plant is a native of Coromandel, where it grows wild in the woods on the mountains. The flowers are 
white, with red anthers ; and the fruit is as large as an apple. The wood is white, hard, and durable, and a 
transparent liquor which exudes from it when it is cut or broken, is useful for mixing up painters’ colours. 
fEGLE MARMELOS Corr. THE BENGAL QUINCE. 
This plant is also a native of the mountainous parts of Coromandel, where it forms a shrub ten feet high. The 
fruit is much larger than the Elephant Apple, and more delicious to the taste. It is also exquisitely fragrant. 


