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China, and the Malayan Archipelogo. 
It is extensively cultivated in the prov¬ 
inces of China, Cochin-China, but is 
said to be impatient of a climate much 
more hot or much more cold.”—Peo¬ 
ples Cyclopedia of Universal Knowl¬ 
edge. 
“Holding under a shell of ruddy 
brown, its translucent and delicious 
flesh.”—In My Garden. 
“The delicious Litchi Nuts.”—Hart¬ 
ley's Magazine, 1876. 
“Here are a hundred and sixty Li¬ 
chee fruits for you.”—Steck's Indian 
Fairy Tales, 1879. 
“The Lichee is the finest of Chinese 
fruits, having a white flesh with the 
taste of the best of grapes.”—Popular 
Science Monthly, XXVIII. 
“Tree of moderate size, with brown 
bark, large leaves and a fruit produced 
in bunches which are pendant from the 
extremities of the twigs. The fresh 
fruit is pleasantly sweet and reported 
to be one of the most delicious known. 
It is sold in America and Europe in a 
dried state, and though the pulp is much 
diminished in size, it retains a consid¬ 
erable portion of its flavor.”—Encyclo¬ 
pedia Americana. 
“It has a somewhat agreeably fla¬ 
vored pulp, containing a single seed and 
inclosed in a rough papery shell. It is 
eaten, both fresh and dried and often 
made into preserves. It is cultivated 
in China, the Philippines, India and 
elsewhere for its fruit.”—Webster’s 
Unabridged Dictionary, 1911. 
“The most common variety is nearly 
round, about an inch and a half in diam¬ 
eter, with a thin and brittle red shell 
which is covered with wart-like protu¬ 
berances. The pulp, when fresh, is 
white and nearly transparent, sweet and 
jelly-like and contains a single shining 
brown seed. The fruit is borne in clus¬ 
ters. It is dried for preservation, the 
pulp shrinking away from the shell, and 
in this state it sometimes finds its way 
to western ports.”—Century Cyclope¬ 
dia. 
“The most celebrated fruit of China. 
The tree grows in southern China and 
the Philippine Islands. ‘The Li Chee 
looks like a strawberry in size and 
shape, the tough rough red skin enclos¬ 
ing a sweet watery pulp of white color, 
surrounding a hard seed.’ ”—The “Mid¬ 
dle Kingdom,” S. Wells Williams. 
“A large evergreen plant of China 
and the Malay Peninsula, and extens¬ 
ively grown in many tropical countries. 
It is highly prized for its fruit, which is 
said to be one of the most delicious 
known. The fruit is a nut of an inch or 
more in diameter, which consists of a 
thin, brittle shell within which is a 
sweet pulp, surrounding a round seed. 
The pulp separates readily from the 
seed and is eaten fresh or dried or as a 
preserve. In the dried state, the nut 
keeps a long time and it is mostly in 
this form that they are found, in com¬ 
merce.”—New International Encyclo¬ 
pedia. 
“A tree producing a fruit much es¬ 
teemed in China."-—New Websterian 
Dictionary. 
“The fruit of the Nephelium Li Chi. 
A small tree, native of southern China 
and one of the most important indigen- 
