The Gardens of the Sun Or a Naturalists Journal On the Mountains And in the F
The Gardens of the Sun Or a Naturalists Journal On the Mountains And in the F
F W Frederick William Burbidge
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The colourless water in the fresh young nuts is peculiarly valuable and grateful as a beverage, preferable where drinking water is in anyway questionable ; cocoa-nut oil being, moreover, one of the most valuable of Eastern palm products. The fruit of the " pinang, " or betel-nut palm is as essential to the Malay races as tobacco to our own, and even the fruit of the nipa, or "thatch" palm may be eaten. The astrin- ch. Xv. ] Onion Fruit and Bananas. 321 gent pulp which surrounds the seeds of sev...eral species of " rattan " palms is occasionally eaten for medicinal pur- poses. Perhaps one of the most singular of all wild fruits, however, is the " Bawang utan, " or wild onion fruit, which is not unlike a walnut in general appearance, -l*-- uSIoN FRUIT. but which is impregnated with such a decided alliaceous principle that a small portion of it grated forms an ex- cellent substitute for the real esculent itself. Scientifi- cally it is known as Scorodoprasum borneense. The foliage and branches of this tree when broken or bruised give off u strong alliaceous odour.
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