Cookia
(named after Captain James Cook, R. N., the celebrated circumnavigator, who was killed in the Sandwich Islands in 1779). Wampee-tree. ORD. Rutaceae. Small greenhouse trees. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets alternate, unequal at the base, or oblique. They thrive well in a mixture of loam and sandy peat. Ripened cuttings, not deprived of any of their leaves, will root in sandy soil, if plunged under a hand glass, in a moist heat. This genus is now merged into Clausena, and the proper name of the species below mentioned is Clausena Wampi.
C. punctata (spotted). fl. white, small, disposed in racemose panicles. fr. edible, about the size of a pigeon's egg, yellow on the outside; pulp white, rather acrid, but sweet. June and July. l., leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, hardly unequal at the base. h. 20ft. Probably a native of China, 1795. A middle-sized tree, now cultivated (and partly naturalised) in many tropical countries.