confounded with the Marmalade plum of the West Indies, 
Lucuma mammosa, Gertn. The first good account of it 
is in Sloane’s “ History of Jamaica.” It was introduced, 
according to Aiton’s ‘‘ Hortus Kewensis,” into England 
before 1737, and it has long been in cultivation at the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, where there is, in the Economic 
House, a tree of it ten feet high. This flowered (but did 
not form fruit) in August, 1896, and from it the accom- 
panying figure of the foliage and flower is taken; that of 
the fruit is from a specimen preserved in fluid in the 
Economic Museum (No. 2) of the Royal Gardens, presented 
by C. D. Sturge, Esq., of Montserrat. The seed figured 
is an abnormally large one, such as occur when one only 
is developed in the fruit. 
Descr.—A large, umbrageous tree, sixty to seventy feet 
high, with a stout trunk, and dense coma; branchlets 
stout, covered with a dark brown bark. Leaves ter- 
minating the stout branchlets, three to five inches long, 
oblong, obovate, or obovate-oblong, obtuse, variable in 
breadth, thinly coriaceous, bright green and shining 
above, paler beneath; base rounded or cuneate; nerves 
_ very numerous, spreading, with close set cross nervules ; 
petiole about half an inch long, stout, channelled above. 
Flowers solitary, or 2—4-nate on the wood of the branches 
at the axils of fallen leaves, about one and a half inches in 
diameter, sweet-smelling; pedicels about half an inch long, 
stout, green, ebracteate. Sepals four to six, orbicular- 
obovate, obtuse, concave, very pale green, and obscurely 
spotted. Petals a fourth or less longer than the sepals, 
broadly obovate, recurved, white. Stamens very numerous, 
in many series; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, apiculate. 
_ Ovary broadly flaggon-shaped, narrowed into a very stout 
style, with two orbicular, spreading, recurved, fleshy 
stigmas. Fruit from the size of an orange to a child’s 
head, spherical, or nearly so; rhind thick, flesh yellow, 
pulpy, stringy around the large seeds.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1 and 2, Stamens; 3, ovary; 4, longit. section of do.; 5, transverse 
section of fruit; 6, seed; 7, ditto, with testa removed; 8, transverse section 
of embryo :—All but figs. 5, 6, and 7 enlarged. 
