The natives give it honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it." [Note 1.] -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Note 1.

To these particulars we may add that the durion (_Durio zibethinus_) belongs to the natural family of _Sterculiaceae_, of the same sub-order (_Bombaceae_) as the silk-cotton tree.

It grows to a great stature; its leaves are like those of the cherry, and its pale yellow flowers hang in large bunches.

Each tree yields about two hundred fruit in a year.

The fruit contains ten to twelve seeds, as large as pigeons' eggs, and these, when roasted, are as good as, and taste very much like, roasted chestnuts..