Tas. 7562. 
MAMMEA americana. 
Native of the West Indies. 
Nat. Ord. GurTrrERz.—Tribe CALOPHYLLEZ. 
Genus Mammega, Linn.; (Benth. & Hook. f, Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 176.) 
MamMEA americana; arbor dumosa, ramosissma, foliis crasse petiolatis ovatis 
obovatis v. obovato-oblongis obtusis basi rotundatis cuneatisve tenuiter 
coriaceis saturate viridibus, nervis numerosis patentibus nervulis reti- 
culatis prominulis, floribus solitariis 2-3-nisve breviter pedicellatis 
12 poll. diam. 4-6-meris suaviter odoratis, sepalis obovato-oblongis con- 
cavis pallide viridibus, petalis paullo longioribus late obovatis demum 
recurvis albis, staminibus perplurimis, filamentis filiformibus, antheris 
linearibus connectivo apiculatis, ovario lagenwformi in stylum breve 
crassum angustato, stigmate bilabiato, labiis’ crassis rotundatis recurvis, 
loculis minutis, drupa magna globosa 1-4-sperma cortice fusco tenui, 
carne fibrosa flavida, seminibus magnis compressis, testa crassa fibrosa, 
cotyledonibus magnis agglutinatis. 
M. americana, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 512. Jacq. Stirp. Am. Hist. p. 268, t. 181, 
fig. 82; Select. Stirp. Ic. Pict. vol. i. t. 248. Vahl, Eelog. vol. ii. p. 40, 
Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. pars. II. p. 1157. Ait. Hort. Kew, Ed. 2, vol. iii. 
p. 297. Lamk. Encycl. Suppl. vol. ti. p. 582; Ill. t. 458. Lunan, Hort. 
Jamaie. vol. i. p. 431. Descourl. Fl. Med. Antill. vol. i. p. 561. DC. 
Prodr. vol. i. p. 561. Tussac, Fl. Antill. vol. iti. t. 7. Maycock, Fl. 
Barbad. p. 227. Macfad. Fl. Jamaie. vol. i. p. 135. Planch. & Trian. 
Mem. Guttif. pp. 12, 212. Trian. & Planch. Fi. Nov. Granad. p. 288. 
Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 108. Engler in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xii. 
pars. I. p. 895, t. 79. A.DC. Origine Pl. Cult. p. 150. 
Mamay, Dalechamps, Hist. Gen. Pi. 1536. 
Arb. Ind. Mamei dict., Bauh. Pinaz, p. 417. 
Mam. Laest. Hist. Nouv. Monde, p. 356. 
Mamay arb. &c., Bawh. Hist. Pl. Univ. vol. i. p. 172. 
_ Malus persica maxima, é&c., Sloane, Hist. Jamaie. vol. ii. p. 123, t. 217, p. 3. 
Mammei, magn. fruct., &c., Plum. Nov. Pl. Gen. p. 44; Icon. t. 170. 
The Mammee tree, Hughes, Hist. Barbad. p. 133. 
Mamme fol. oval, &c., P. Browne, Hist. Jamaic. p. 249, 
Abricoteiro de Brasil, Apricotier d’ Amérique. 
The Mammee, a tree cultivated for its edible fruit in the 
tropics of America, is undoubtedly indigenous in Cuba, 
Jamaica, and other of the West Indian Islands ; in Jamaica 
indeed it is said to be one of the commonest trees. I find 
no evidence of its being a native of the continent of South 
Novemser Ist, 1897, 
