That which grows upon the elevated table lands is preferred to that which is found in the valleys.

It is selected when the full vigour of the plant begins to decline and the tips of the leaves become red, but before the leaf is at all withered.

The fruit is used both when first ripe and also after it has become dried up and apparently withered.

In each case it has an agreeable flavour and is much prized by the natives.
Many other descriptions of fruits and berries are made use of in different parts of the continent, the chief of which, so far as their use has come under my own observation, are-- 1.

A kind of fruit called in the Moorunde dialect "ketango," about the size and shape of a Siberian crab, but rounder.