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soft to moderately hard In structure, resembling m 
some respects the European ash. This tree is very 
valuable and is used in the manufacture of oars, sam- 
pan poles , plows, platters, spinning wheels , and for 
many other purposes." (Watt's Dictionary of the Eco- 
nomic Products of India, vol, 3, p. 442.) 
Garcinia mangostana (Clusiaceae) , 46204, M&ngosteen. 
From Bultenzorg, Java. Presented by the Director, Bo- 
tanic Garden. "This delicious fruit is about the size 
of a mandarin orange, round and slightly flattened at 
each end, with a smooth, thick rind, rich red -purple 
In color, with here and there a bright, hardened drop 
of yellow jujLce which marks some Injury to the rind 
when it was young. As these mangosteens are sold in 
the Dutch East Indies -heaped up on fruit baskets or 
made up into long, regular bunches, with thin strips 
of braided bamboo - they are as strikingly handsome as 
anything of the kind oould well be; but.it Is . only 
when the fruit is opened that its real beauty -is seen. 
The rind is thick and tough* and, In order to get.at 
the pulp inside, it requires a circular cut with, a 
sharp knife to lift the top half off like a cap, ex- 
posing the white segments, five, six, or seven In num- 
ber, lying loose in the cup. The cut surface of the 
rind is of a most delicate pink color and Is studded 
with small yellow points , formed by the drops of ex- 
uding juice. As you lift out of this. cup, one by one, 
the delicate segments, which are the size and shape 
of those of a mandarin orange, the light pink sides 
of the cup, and the veins of white and yellow embedded 
in It, are visible. The separate segments are between 
snow-white and ivory in color and are covered with a 
delicate network of fibers, and the side of each 
segment, where It presses against Its neighbor, ,1s 
translucent and slightly tinged with pale green. 
As one poises the dainty bit of snowy fruit on his 
fork and looks at the . empty pink cup from which it 
has been taken, he hardly knows whether the delicate 
flavor or the beautiful coloring of the fruit pleases 
him the more; and he invariably stops to admire the 
rapidly deepening color of the cut rind as It changes, 
on exposure to the air, from light pink to deep brown. 
The texture of the mangos teen pulp much resembles 
that of a well-ripened plum, only it is so deli- 
cate -that it melts in your mouth like a bit of ice 
cream. The flavor is quite Indescribably delicious 
and resembles nothing you know of , and yet reminds you, 
