. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . ngs in clusters, like burnished gold. The fruits which have been yet discovered in Aus-tralia are neither remarkable nor numerous. , who accompanied Captain Ring in hissurvey of the coast of that immense region, has,however, just sent home some curious specimens offruit, which are thus described to us. LiMONIA AUSTRAIJS. The Australian lime is a small green fruit, havingthe form and flavom- of the lime. The tree is verygreen; the leaves lanceolate, with one or two slightnotches in the
. A description and history of vegetable substances, used in the arts, and in domestic economy . ngs in clusters, like burnished gold. The fruits which have been yet discovered in Aus-tralia are neither remarkable nor numerous. , who accompanied Captain Ring in hissurvey of the coast of that immense region, has,however, just sent home some curious specimens offruit, which are thus described to us. LiMONIA AUSTRAIJS. The Australian lime is a small green fruit, havingthe form and flavom- of the lime. The tree is verygreen; the leaves lanceolate, with one or two slightnotches in the edge. There is a long, stiff, and THE CASTANOSPERMUM. 421 pointed fjreen spine at the insertion of each leaf. Thiswas lately discovered at Moreton Bay; tlie flower hasnot been seen. LiSSANTHE SaPIDA. The Australian cranberry is a handsome bush,from six to nine feet high; it grows in forest landsnear the Blue Mountains; the flowers are hand-some ; and the berries of a very delicate peach-bloom colour, having something of the consistencyand taste of the Siberian crab. Castanospermum Ths siDgular fruit, which may not improperly be 2o 3 422 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. called the chesnut bean, was lately found by upon the banks of the Brisbane river,in Moreton Bay, New South Wales. It is the pro-duce of a large and handsome tree, which belongs toa new and undescribed genus, though in some parti-culars it seems allied to Robinia. The leaves arepinnated, upon long footstalks; the leaflets entire,and there is a terminal one. The flowers, which arepapilionaceous, are produced at the bases of theleaves in considerable numbers, not unlike those ofthe Robinia hispida. These flowers are succeededby pods, very large, hard, and of a brownish, or cin-namon colour. These pods contain a variable num-ber of roundish seeds or beans, compressed on theone side, and covered with a thin loose shell of achesnut colour; when roasted, they have very muchthe flavour of chesnuts; and in
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