in such matters, says in his second volume (unpublished), " 1 

 cannot learn that the fruit is ever collected for use, or 

 brought to the market." 



The Grias cauliflora is found throughout the Spanish 

 Main, growing in clumps or thickets, and its flowers are 

 deliriously sweet-scented. It has flowered several times at 

 Kew, and lately in September of last year. 



Desce. A tree twenty to fifty feet high, trunk undivided 

 or with a few simple branches. Leaves crowded at the ends 

 of the branches, spreading and drooping, three to four feet 

 long, ten inches broad, obovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate 

 at the base and continuous with the short petiole, quite 

 entire or obscurely waved and crenulate, dark green, quite 

 glabrous, shining. Flowers on short stout branching pedun- 

 cles, produced on the trunk far below the leaves, two inches 

 broad, pale yellow, very fragrant. Calyx limb irregularly 

 four-cleft, Petals four, fleshy, oblong, obtuse, nerveless. 

 Stamens crowded, incurved. Jpex of ovary square and red. 

 Fruit ovate, eight-grooved, containing an oblong, one-seeded 

 nut— J. D. II. 



Fig. 1. Whole plant, reduced. 2. Branch and flower, nat. size. 3. 

 Ovary and calyx. 4. Transverse section of ditto. 5. Vertical section of 

 stamen. 6. Stamen : — all magnified. 



