CrescentTiA CuJere. CaLaBasn Tree. 
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Cline nid Order. 
Dipynamia ANGIOSPERMIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Brenontacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. bipartitus, equalis, decidinié. Cor. subcampanulata ; 
tubo brevissimo ; fauce magna, ventricosa, limbo 5-fido in- 
quali. Stam. 4, didynama, cum rudimento quinti: Bac- 
ca cucurbitina, unilocularis, cortice solido, interne pulposa 
polysperma. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Crescenta * Cujete ; foliis fasciculatis lato-lanceolatis in- 
ferne attenuatis. 
Crescentia Cujete. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 872. Jacq. Am. p. 
175. t. 111. Spreng. Syst. coed, v. 2. p. 842. 
Crescentia arborescens, &c. Br. Jam. p ” 265. 
onnoe cucurbitifera Americana, &e. va Jam. 2. p. 
Te. ae 
The Calabash tree was cultivated by the Earl of Porr- 
LAND in this country, according to the Hortus Kewensis, so 
long ago as the year 1690 ; and branches of it are not un- 
frequently sent over to our Collections from the West 
India Islands, for the sake of the epiphytes with which 
they are invested, and these being fixed in the earth, readily 
vegetate: but I was not aware that any had produced 
lossoms in our stoves, until Cuartes Horsrarr, Esq. 
obligingly sent me a E flower which was S perfected in his 
2 | garden 
* So named in honor of Pert 
culture, 
VOL. Ix. ae ig 
RESCENTIO, an Italian writer on Agri- 
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