Tas. 7260. 
MONODORA GranpiFtora. 
Native of Western Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. ANonackEzx.—Tribe MirREPHORES. 
Genus Monopora, Dunal ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl v 1. i. p. 26.) 
Monopora grandiflora ; arborea, foliis oblongis obovato-oblongisve acutis basi 
rotundatis obtusis cordatisve, pedunculis v. ramulis hornotinis supra 
medium 1-bracteatis, sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis undulatis, petalis 
exterioribus 3-4-pollicaribus lanceolatis crispato-undulatis aureis rubro 
maculatis, interioribus duplo minoribus unguiculatis latissime ovato- 
cordatis angulis basi inflexis ciliatis, ovario turbinato, stigmate lobulato, 
fructu 6 po!l. diam. pericarpio crasso subsulcato. 
M. grandiflora, Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 474. 
M. Myristica var. grandiflora, Oliver Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. i. p. 38. 
Xyioria undulata, Beauv. Fl. Oware et Benin, vol. i. p. 27, t. 16 (excl. 
fruct.) P 
The genus Monodora was founded on a tree at that time 
known only as cultivated in the West Indies, where it is 
called the American or Calabash Nutmeg, and of which 
the fruit alone had been previously described and figured 
by Gaertner (Fruct. vol. ii. p. 194, t. 125, f. 1.) as 
Anona Myristica. The specific and popular name being 
due to the fact of the seeds containing an aromatic oil 
resembling in flavour but less pungent than that of the 
Nutmeg, and used for the same purposes, in food and as 
medicine. This, for long the only known species, was 
supposed in Jamaica to have been brought from the 
Continent of America, It is figured at tab. 3059 of this 
Magazine, and fully described by Dr. Bancroft from living 
Specimens, accompanied with observations by the editor of 
the Magazine, who supplies a note to the effect that Robert 
Brown considered it more probable that it was brought by 
the negroes from the West Coast of Africa. 
Nothing further was known of the genus till a second 
species, that here figured, was described by Mr. Bentham, 
from specimens collected by Mr. G. Mann (late Conservator 
of Forests in Assam) in tropical Western Africa, and which 
he identified with the Xylopia undulata, Beauv. of Benin, 
together with two others, M. tenuifolia, Benth., and M. bre- 
OctoBER lst, 1892. 
