Tas. 4822. 
CRESCENTIA MaAcROPHYLLA. 
Large-leaved Calabash-tree. 
Nat. Ord. CRESCENTIACE®.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. emend. Calyx deciduus, bilabiatus, lobis integerrimis. Corolla 
subcampanulata, tubo elongato, fauce magna ventricosa, limbo inequaliter 5-fido 
vel crenato aut fimbriato-laciniato. Stamina 4, cum rudimento quinti. <Anthere 
biloculares, loculis divergentibus. Discus glandulosus, ovarii basin cingens. Stylus 
elongatus. Stigma bilamellatum. Ovarium uniloculare, multi-ovulatum. Fructus 
globosus, ovatus vel ellipsoideus, cortice lignoso, spurie 2-locularis, intus pulpo- 
sus, Semina plurima. Albumen nullum. Embryo magnus.—Arbores vel fru- 
tices arborescentes America tropice, foliis alternis solitariis vel fasciculatis, sim- 
plicibus vel trifoliolatis, pedunculis e trunco ramisve ortis, corollis rubentibus, vi- 
rescentibus, vel virescentibus purpureo et flavo variegatis. Seem. l 
CrescEentra macrophylla; arborea, glaberrima, foliis alternis solitariis omnibus 
simplicibus obovato-lanceolatis breviter acuminatis versus basin longe cune- 
atis integerrimis, nervo (unico) utrinque acuto, petiolis valde incrassatis, 
corrolla (virescente) campanulata, tubo curvato ventricoso, limbo subregu- 
lari fimbriato-laciniato, lamellis stigmatis fimbriatis, fructus . . 
CrEsceNntTIA macrophylla. Seem. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. and Kew Misc. v. 6. 
p. 274. 
FERpINaNDEA superba. Hort. Germ. 
At present there are cultivated in the Royal Botanic Gardens 
at Kew the four species of which, according to our recent revision, 
the genus Crescentia, as far as we know it, is composed. Of 
these, two (C. alata, H. B. K., and C. cucurbitina, Linn.) have 
been raised from seeds received at various times from South 
America; the third (C. Cujete, Linn.) has been in cultivation 
in several gardens, for a great number of years; and the fourth 
(C. macrophylla, Seem.) was imported, not long ago, from i 
Continent, where it is generally known under the name of Fer- 
dinandea superba. A glance at the Botanical Magazine fig 
(Tab. 4822) and description, however, will at once show that it 
has nothing to do with either Ferdinandea or Ferdinandusa of 
Pohl, a Rubiaceous genus, or with Ferdinanda of Lagasca, 
belonging to Composite, or with Ferdinandezia of Ruiz and 
DECEMBER Ist, 1854. 
