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Der Rambustan-Baum
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Plants CIX. Vol. VI.No. 42., THE RAMUSTAN-TREE., The Pi.anibuftan or hairy fruit (Nephelium broken up, one-finds (a) five kernels near one echinatum) grows in Java, Sumatra and in anotlier vertically converging in a center, the Molucky Islands on a highgrown tree, furroundecl with a fweetifh pappy Cr.bftance, much refembling to our chefnut-tree. From and inclore.d in.a whitilo fki'n. The Rarnbw the bloffoiTiS, which only appear like green little flan fruit ripens at the fame time with the buds, the fruit unfolds itself, being of the big- Mangufuna, that we have feen depicted nefs of a walnutand allovei cover'd with hairs. (Tab. 24.); it is for its cooling quality a beThis exterior covering is at firic green, after- loved meat in the Indies, wards it becomes deep orange-tawny. Being
