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name applied to two important economic species in two closely related 
genera. 
In this particular case there is another reason for refusing to base 
a new combination on Jacquin’s Sideroxylum sapota. There is nothing 
to show that this was an original name proposed for the sapote as 
distinct from the sapodilla. Jacquin, like Linneus, at first did not 
discriminate between the sapote and sapodilla. Instead of distin- 
guishing the two fruits and giving them different names, Jacquin’s 
first treatment may be interpreted as a mere transfer of the composite 
Linnean species from Achras to Sideroxylon. In his next work 
Jacquin accepted the genus Achras and used the Linnean binomial 
Achras zapota in its correct application to the sapodilla, with a citation 
of the original place of publication in Species Plantarum. Thus it 
was not until Linnzus proposed the name mammosa, in the second 
edition of Species Plantarum, that the sapote can be said to have 
received a specific designation. 
SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL SYNONYMS. 
The results of this study of the nomenclature of the sapote and the 
sapodilla are summarized in the following lists of the principal 
synonyms: . 
Achradelpha mammosa (L.) Cook. THE SAPOTE. 
Malus persica maxima foliis magnis, etc. Sloane, Voy. Jam. 2: 124. pl. 218. 
1725. 
Siderorylum sapota Jacq. Enum. Pl. Carib. 15. 1760. 
Achras mammosa L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 469. 1762. 
Achras zapota major Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 56. 1763. 
Sapota mammosa Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 2. 1768. 
Lucuma mammosum Gaertn. f. Fruct. & Sem. 3: 130. pl. 203-4. 1807. 
Lucuma mammosa DC. Prodr. 8: 169. 1844. 
Vitellaria mammosa Radlk. Sitzungsb. Math.-Phys. Akad. Miinchen 12: 325. 
1882. 
Calospermum mammosum Pierre, Notes Bot. Sapot. 11. 1890. 
Calocarpum mammosum Pierre in Urban, Symb. Antill. 5: 98. 1904. 
Achradelpha mammosa Cook, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 3: 160. 1913. 
Achras zapota L. THE sAPOoDILLA. 
Sapota fructu ovato, majort Plum. Nov. Pl. Amer. 43. pl. 4. 1703. 
Achras zapota L. Sp. Pl. 1190. 1753; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 57. 1763. 
Achras sapota L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 1. 470. 1762. 
Sapota achras Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 8. no. 1. 1768. 
Sapota zapotilla Coville, Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 9: 369. 1905. 
