‘downy, of a uniform pale yellowish brown colour: when 
wounded a mucilaginous liquor oozed out, which hardened 
into a pellucid, nearly insipid or slightly bitterish gum. 
- Cultivated at Hampton-Court in 1691. Paimie Mitrer 
raised it from seeds sent by Houston, from Old Vera Cruz 
in America, who observed in two different seasons, that when 
in ripe fruit, the leaves were all fallen off. Muituer remarks, 
that all the plants that had flowered in England were male ; 
but both our’s and the one figured by, Enrer, were female. 
Requires to be kept in the stove. | 
spasms by Messrs. LoppicEs and Sons, in Augus 
i816. ‘as 
