the information that they were from the province of Rio de 
Janeiro. Lastly herbarium specimens in flower and fruit 
were sent to Kew by that most energetic botanist M. 
Glaziou, Director of Public Parks at Rio, which enabled 
Mr. Bentham, when studying the order Sapotacee for the 
Genera Plantarum, to refer the foundling to the essentially 
American genus Chrysophyllum. M. Glaziou gives as the 
precise habitat the Serro da Estrello; M. André gives the 
Mountain of Tijuca in the chain of the Corcovado, which is, 
I believe, part of the Serro da Hstrello. 
It is singular that it should have been so long before this 
plant flowered in Europe; this has occurred only once as 
fas as I am aware, and that is in the Botanical Gardens of 
Queen’s College, Cork, where Professor Marcus Hartog, 
D.Se., F.L.S., most obligingly sent me a flowering specimen 
in the month of April of last year. This consisted of a 
branch as thick as the middle finger, bearing copious 
clusters of flowers, and leaves a foot and a half long, and . 
was taken from a specimen twenty feet high. At Kew the 
leaves attain three feet in length and ten inches in breadth. 
The fruit is of about the size of a small apple, obtusely 
five-angled, with a hard thick flesh and five cells (or fewer 
by arrest); the base is intruded, the apex mammillary, 
and the peduncle very stout and woody. The seeds are an 
inch long and three-quarters of an inch wide, compressed 
with turgid faces, an acute semicircular margin, and a 
nearly straight ventral one, the latter bearing the narrow 
hilum ; the testa is thick, bony, chestnut-brown, and highly 
polished ; albumen copious, cotyledons thin.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of flowering branch; 2, estivation of calyx and corolla ; 
3, flower ; 4, portion of corolla and stamen; 5, anther ; 6, pistil :-—alZ enlarged. 
