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give way to the touch. After the interval of a century, from
the time o f Knox, Dodtor Thun berg * gives an account o f both
fpecies. This he fays is the Maldivian Jour Jack o f the Dutch,
that it contains two or three hundred great kernels, each four
times the fize o f an almond; and that the fruit grows to the
weight o f thirty or forty pounds; that the tafte is unpleafant,
and cadaverous, yet that not fewer than fifteen diihes are prepared
from it. He adds, that the trees of both kind are replete
with a milky juice, as tenacious as bird-lime itfelf; and Knox
adds, that the boys apply it to that purpofe. Rumpbius, i. p. 104,
calls the larger variety of this fpecies Saccus Arboreus major,
Nanba, and gives the figure in tab. xxx. The other he names
Saccus Arboreus minor Tsjampedaka, fee p. 107, tab. xxxi. both
thefe are oblong; the lafi: fack-ihaped. The leaves are entire
and ovated. The fruit grow in a moil: fingular manner, hanging
by the ftalk from the body o f the tree, ex arbore trunco. prode-
mata, fays Baubin, in his Pinax, p. 511. See alfo the figure in
Rumpbius, and alfo in Linfcbotten, tab. 76, 77.
T h is Ipecies grows in molt of the fame places with the following.
It is alfo frequent in the Maldive illes, from whence, in
about the year 1727, or 1728, fome roots were brought, and
planted in this ifland. From this circurnftance the fpecies is
called MaldiviJcbe Syr Sack.
D o c t o r Thunberg, in our Phil. Tranf. vol. lxix. has publilhed
a long account o f thefe fruits, under the name of TJitodium,
and particularly diftinguifhed the fecond kind by the name of
Macrocarpon, or long fruit. Both kinds have various names,:
* Travels, iv. p. 255.
The
The Rortuguefe call it the Jacca, o f which notice will be taken
in another place.
o f E I f “ emi0ned ^ Knox under the name B E .
o f Velas, who fays it 1S as foft as pap. This is the fame with the
Seedlefs, or Apyrene of George Forjler, PI. Alfcul. Inf. Oceani Aujlr
i n n / T 13 ° f " Sl°bUlar f° rm’ and iS Univerfa% cultivated
m Otabette, and poflibly others o f the South Sea iflands. It %
alfo defcnbed by Doao< Thunberg, and faid to grow as large as
child s head. This is fiUed with a fubftance like the crumb o f
Toutb , ,bread; and is univerfaUy ufed in the iflands o f the-
S°u* Sea, but lefs fo in I * * * It is the W M » o f
M , p. 310, Ed. m of Captain Cook’s firft Voyage, i. p . go.
tab r r ; and o f Mr. Ellis, in his Monograph, M , and the{ j g }
carpus tncifus o f Lin. Suppl. 411.
T h e varieties o f the tncifus, which have kernels, are thofe
2 T T r k H M, “ !>• » i under the name B
»m u , t mp. II4. a , , j g a tlle■fc !a rIe ^I S and the ■1
o f T ’r ” f S * 'he « H The Jeeves of
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¿ t e a f ! Mr- “ “ ■ » « • - « fenrto the
< » p t r h „ I “ ° “ “ f° r ,1,efe
J Z V Z Z “ 7 be “ wi,k M from
n M M brought feverel hundred llrrubs o f
V; , T f e ’S ‘ ' ^ 7 ^ Travels, ] * 2JJ.
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