Philosophical Transactions, Volume 2…
“ Plants of strange kinds in China, See Kircher in Books. A pleasant fruit called the Sowre-sop, cracks so loud on the Trees, that they affright us, n. 27. p. 501. Some Trees in Jamaica seem to grow meerly out of Rocks; Mask-millions meerly out of Sand, yet very good, ibid. The Polony-tree produces a huge fruit, as big as a man can carry, immediately out of its trunk, and without a blossom, n. ”
