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known  in  Guiana  at  the  time  of  Aublet,  It  differs  from  the 
true  Souari  nut  by  the  tubercular  appearance  of  the  shell,  besides 
other  differences  in  the  outer  coverings  of  the  fresh  fruit.* 
The  nut  sells  at  too  high  a  rate  to  be  serviceable  for  ordinary 
purposes ;  besides  the  kernel,  which,  when  sound  is  very  sweet,  is 
frequently  destroyed.  • 
Litchi,  or  Ly-chee  fruits,  from  Euphoria  Litchi,  Desf.f — These 
handsome  little  nut-like  fruits  are  seen  here  but  rarely.  Some 
dry  specimens  before  us  are  of  the  shape  and  size  of  a  large 
strawberry,  somewhat  compressed.  They  are  an  inflated,  dry 
berry,  with  a  brownish  fragile  shell  studded  over  with  small  py- 
ramidal, convex,  or  flattened  tubercles ;  within  there  is  a  single 
hard,  brown,  tooth-like  seed  adnate  to  the  base,  and  covered  with 
a  shrivelled  pulp  of  the  consistence  and  appearance  of  a  large 
raisin.  The  latter  is  the  edible  portion,  and  possesses  the  taste 
of  preserved  quinces. 
It  is  consumed  to  a  considerable  extent  in  China,  etc.,  and 
*  The  other  species  of  the  subgenus  Pekea  with  an  edible  nut  is  C.  butyrosum 
(Willd.,  Sp.  PL,  ii.  1243.  DeC.  Prod,,  i.  600.  Pekea  butyrosa,  Aublet,  Guian.,  i. 
594,  t.  238.    Lamarck,  EncycL,  iii.  33,  tab.  486,  1. 
Of  the  subgenus  Saouari  the  nuts  occur  under  the  same  names  from  C.  nu- 
ciferum  (Willd.,  Sp.  PL,  ii.  1243.  DeC.  Prod.,  i.  299.  Hooker,  Curt.  Bot.  Mag. 
liv.  2727.  Flore  des  Serves,  iii.  183,  184. 
C.  glabrum,  Pers.  (DeC.  I.  c.  Saouri  glabra,  Aublet,  Guian.,  i.  599,  tab.  240. 
Rhizobolus  Saouvari,  Correa,  Ann.  Mus.  Hist.  Nat.,  viii.  394,  tab.  5,  2. 
C.  brasiliense,  Cambess.  (St.  Hilaire,  Fl.  Bras.  Merid.,  i.  249,  tab.  67,) 
and  besides  the  remaining  species  described  in  the  Prodromus,  two  new 
ones,  viz  : 
C.  edule  Casaretto,  Decada  Nov.  Stirp.  BrasiL,  viii.  67.  Walpers,  Rep.  Bot.,  v. 
358  ;  near  Rio  Janeiro,  and 
C.  barbierve,  Miq.  (Linneea,  xxii.  802.   In  Bresil,  Prov.  Bahia.) 
f  Sjn.  Dimocarpus  Lichi,  Lour.  Scytalia  chinensis,  Gaertner.  Scytalia  Loacan. 
Roxb.  Euphoria  punicea,  Lamarck.  Sapindus  edulis,  Aitk.  Nephelium  Litchi, 
Don. 
Sex.  Tyst.  Moncecia  pentandria.    Nat.  Ord.  Sapindacese. 
Linn.,  gen.  1425.  Dec,  Prodr.  i.  611.  G.  Don.,  Gardn.  Diet.  i.  670.  La- 
marck, Diet.  iii.  573,  tab.  306.  Aitken,  Hort.  Kew.,  ed.  i.  vol.  ii.  36.  Gaert- 
ner, De  Fruct.  t.  42.  Roxborough,  Hort.  Beng.  p.  28.  Louveiro,  FL  Cochinch. 
p.  233. 
Du  RUlde,  Hist.  Chin.  ii.  144.  Sonnerat,  It.  Ind.  ii.  230.  Rees'  Cyclop,  xxxii. 
(Scytalia.) 
