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Cerbera Ahouai. Oval-Leaved 



Cerbera. 



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CA//> a«a' Order. 



Pentandria Monogynia. 



Generic Char a Her. 



Cdi. 5-partitus patens. Cor. 5-partitus patens. Cor. infundi- 

 buliformis ; tubo clavato, fauce 5-angulari 5-dentata: limbo 

 rnagno 5 -partito obliquo. Anthers conniventes. Stylus j. 

 Stigma 2-lobum. Drupa magna latere fuicata ac 2-punclata, 

 fceta nuce oflea 4-valvi 2-locuIari 2-fperma. Jussieu. 



Specific Charatlcr and Synonyms. 



CERBERA Ahouai s foliis ovatis. Linn. Sp. PL 303. Reich. 



1. 590. 

 CERBERA Ahovai. Willi 1. 1222. Hort. Kew. 1. 293. 



Mart. Mill. Dicl. Bot. Repof. t. 231. 

 THEVETIA. Hort. Cliff. 75. 

 AHOUAI. <Thev. Antarcl. 66. Tournef. Inji. 658. Rati Hift. 



1676. 

 AHOAI major. Pif. Brqf. 308 ? 

 Arbor americana, foliispomi, fructu triangulo. Bank. Pin. 434. 



A native of Brazil and of fome of the Weft-Indian iflands, 

 where it grows to a tree ten feet high, having a crooked Item, 

 and bearing, as is faid, fome refemblance to our apple-tree. 

 In the ftove it forms a handfome ever-green fhrub and pro- 

 duces its flower in clutters at or near the extremities of the 

 branches, and not, as reprefented in the miferable figure of 

 Piso, in the alae of the leaves. This figure is however molt 

 probably entirely imaginary and made from the defcription 

 only. The wood when cut is faid to have a very offenhve 

 fmell, and every part of the tree abounds with a milky juice 

 fuppofed to be highly deleterious. The hard (hells of the 



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