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long to auother species, as A. laurifolia has been omitted in Martius's ' Flora Brasiliensis,' 

 the figure further differing by its yellow flowers from that of Catesby, and the fruit has not 

 been observed. Catesby's other figure (I.e. t. 64), which is the only existing authority for 

 A. glabra, L., has no flower nor habitat (so that the common assertion that it was a native 

 of Carolina, is only an old mistake), but the fruit is quite the same with that of t. 67, of 

 which it is probably only a broader-leaved form. But as De Caudolle, under the head of A. 

 glabra, has described the flowers of another species, with blunt petals, which was perhaps 

 nothing but A. palustris, the Linneean name of A. glabra, instead of being substituted for 

 A. laurifolia, is better entirely suppressed. 



** Exterior petals exceeding the interior series. 



4. A. palustris, L. Leaves oblong or elliptical, pointed, glabrous ; exterior petals 

 ovate, bluntish, exceeding the interior, these oblong ; syncarpium ovate-globose, smooth, slightly 

 areolated. — Bot. Mag. t. 4226. — A low tree, 6'-15' high; exterior petals £" long, yellow, 

 with a red blotch at the base within, interior almost wholly red on the inner side; syncar- 

 pium (2" diam.) yellowish •■ pulp golden-yellow ; seeds yellow\ — Hab. Jamaica !, Wits., on 

 the marshy seashore and river-banks ; Antigua !, Nichols ; [Cuba ! to Rio Janiero, along 

 the coast ; Niger!]. 



A. mucosa, Jacq. Leaves oblong, taper-pointed, glabrous; exterior petals oblong, blunt, 

 double the length of the interior, these rounded; syncarpium subglobose, tuberculate: tu- 

 bercles fleshy, rounded, somewhat gibbous. — Tuss. Ft. 1. t. 28. — A. obtusiflora, Tuss. — A 

 low tree ; exterior petals ^"-1" long, greenish, interior reddish ; syncarpium (4" diam.) 

 greenish: seeds black. — Hab. [Guadeloupe!, Martinique; Guiaual. 



Sect, 2. Atta. — Petals 3, the interior series being reduced to minute scales, or wanting. 

 Leaves somewhat deciduous. (Macf.) 



5. A. sericea, Bun. Leaves oblong, downy beneath with appressed, minute hairs; petals 

 broad-ovate, thick, bluntish, downy; syncarpium globose, tuberculate : tubercles hooked. — 

 Bun. Anon. t. 5. — A low tree, 10-20' high; petals \" long; syncarpium (1" diam.) tomen- 

 tose. — Hab. Jamaica!, Alex., Wils., in the eastern districts ; [Guiana!, equatorial Brazil!]. 



6. A. squamosa, L. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, glaucous and pubescent beneath, or 

 glabrate ; petals oblong-linear, keeled on the inner side, blunt ; syncarpium ovoid-globose, 

 tuberculate : tubercles prominent, fleshy, rounded. — SI. t. 227 ; Jacq. Ic. Amer. Pict. t. 

 161 ; Tuss. Fl. 3. t. 4 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3095.— A. cinerea, Bun. (t. 8). A. bullata, Rich. (Fl. 

 Cub. t. 5), seems to be the same pubescent form. — A low tree or shrub, about 15-20' high ; 

 leaves more dotted than in the two following species, variable in the form and in the down ; 

 petals (8"'-12'" long, l'"-2'" broad) greenish, excavated at the base on the inner side, with 

 the excavation purple ; fruit 3" diam. : tubercles distinct from each other, 5"'-2'" diam., yel- 

 lowish-green ; pulp white, with a tinge of yellow ; seeds dark-brown. — Hab. Jamaica !, 

 M'Nab, spontaneously in the dry southern plains ; [Cuba to equatorial Brazil]. 



7*. A. Cherimolia, Mill. Leaves elliptical or oblong, velvety beneath; petals oblong- 

 linear, keeled on the inner side, velvety; syncarpium ovate, minutely tuberculate. — Bot. 

 Mag. t. 2011. — A low tree, usually 15' high. I have not examined the ripe fruit: in a 

 younger state the tubercles are not contiguous, as in A. squamosa, and the covering is said 

 to present at length an intermediate character between A. squamosa and A. reticulata; 

 " pulp white, and seeds black." — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica, and in the Caribbean Islands, 

 e.g. S. Lucia!, Anders.; [spontaneous from Peru to Mexico!]. 



8. A. reticulata, L. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, roughish beneath, or at 

 length smooth ; petals oblong-linear, keeled on the inner side ; syncarpium globose, smooth, and 

 slightly areolated.— SI. t. 226; Tuss. Fl. 1. t. 29; Besc. Fl. 2. t. 82; Bot. Mag. I. 2911, 

 2912. — A low tree, lS'^C high ; petals of the two preceding species greenish, and with a 

 purple, excavated blotch; fruit similar to an ornnge, 4" diam., brownish-yellow : pulp yellow- 

 ish-white; seeds dark-brown. — The leaves are so variable, that I have seen a form where 

 they are lanceolate-linear (6" long, and 8'" broad). — Hab. Jamaica!, Mac/.; S. Vincent!, 

 Guild. ; [Guadeloupe !] . 



2. ROLLINIA, St. lid. 



Petals cohering at the base, three fcxtcrior forming a vertical segment, three interior re- 



