Fruit from Africa, the size of a lemon, similar to a gourd, containing hard, black seeds, and curved at the end: it has the pulp of a gourd, red, humid and pleasantly acidic when it is fresh. It is good to eat; and in Ethiopia one corrects the acidity with sugar; it is refreshing and thirst-quenching: the Ethiopians take it as a remedy for high temperatures, putrid fevers and infectious diseases; so one either eats the pulp with some sugar or drinks the juice, which is drawn from it by pressing, and tempered by sugar; or one makes a syrup of it and takes a suitable amount. In Cairo, where one is not able to have it fresh, its pulp is reduced to a powder which resembles a reddish astringent soil, with a taste which is not far from the soil of Lemnos. One uses some of this powder for plague-like fevers, the spitting of blood, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatic flow and excess menses: one then prescribes a dram of this soil in plantain water; others have it taken in decoctions or appropriate infusions. Prosper Alpin, who mentions the fruit, says he has seen the tree, and found that it resembles orange trees somewhat in girth, leaves, and the rest of its aspects.