cleft: Jeaflets triangular. Petals 3. According to Wenp- 
LAND, an accurate observer, the three inner petais exist ; but 
if present in our examples, they were so minute as to escape 
our notice. Oblong-lanceolate, acute, leathery, white within ; 
a little villous without, of a greenish brown colour. Nectary 
a half-round, dark purple hollow, at the base of the petal. 
Stamens many, falling: anthers linear, affixed to the back of 
the filament, which has a globular termination. Pollen 
globular. Germens many, crowded together : stigmas obtuse, 
smooth. The flower expands in the evening, and diffuses a 
fragrant odour, not unlike that of the flowers of Magnolia 
Juscata. | 
Native of Chili and Peru ; and, according to FeurtLier, is 
cultivated with great care in the latter country, where it is 
esteemed the best fruit of the country by the creoles; but the 
good father remarks, that a pear or a plum is worth all the 
Cherimolli in Peru. 
M. De Canpotte prefers the name of Cherimolia, given it 
by Lamarck in the Encyclopedia, which has indeed the right 
of priority. But as Wittprenow and even Persoon, the two 
systematic writers in most general use, have adopted the name 
given it in the first edition of Ayron’s Hortus Kewensis, that 
of tripetala seems now to be best known, on which account 
only we retain it. - ine 7 . 
Cultivated only by Mr. Pamrp Mitxer in 1739. Flowers 
in July and August. Communicated by the Comtesse de 
VANDES. 3 
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