the nuts have long been known, no representation what- 
ever has been given of the flowers. 
In the fruit shops we are all familiar with a nut, known 
by the name of Souari, or Suwarrow (Auster spells the 
word Saouari), or Butter Nut. To the tree which pro- 
duces them, Lixnzus, in his Mantissa, seems to have given 
the appellation of Caryocar nuciferum, which has been 
adopted by WizipEenow and Dz Canpouz, by Persoon and 
Sprencet. Witpenow describes the species as having 
ternate leaves, and farther says, “ Calyx corollaque pur- 
purea, Drupa magnitudine capitis, Nuclei amygdali sapori?”’ 
Auster, under the name of Prxea butyrosa, Plantes de la 
Guiane, t. 238, has figured a plant evidently belonging to 
the genus Caryocar, only that the fruit is monospermous: 
the leaves are quinate. At p. 597 and t. 239 is represented 
his Pexea tuberculosa, where again the foliage is quinate, 
but downy beneath, and the nut is figured and described 
(for neither the flower nor the pericarp of the fruit were 
known to Auster) as so extremely similar to that of our 
present plant, that we can hardly persuade ourselves they 
are not the same. The almond is said to be white and 
good to eat ; its name among the natives is Tata Yous ; 
and the Savoarr of the Caribbees is declared by Auster, to 
be represented in his t. 240, which, though it has ternate, 
glabrous leaves, like those of the Caryocar nuciferum, 
bears a fruit of a totally different kind. 2 
Wiupenow describes three species of Caryocar; the first 
is the C. nuciferum (Linn. Mant. being the only synonym) ; 
the second, C. b sum (Prxea butyrosa. Avs.) ; and 
the third, C. tomentosum (P. tuberculosa. Avsu.); and he 
mentions the Saovari of Auster as probably belonging to 
this genus. 
Sir J. E. Surra describes two species of the genus, the 
Carrocar butyrosum (Pexea. Avs.) and the C. tubercu- 
losum, and tefers them both to the Rurzoznotus of Gartn. 
To this latter, Sir J. E. Smrru refers C. tomentosum of 
Wittpenow, together with the C. nuciferum of Linn£vs, 
and the P. tuberculosa of Auster. 
De Canpoxte, like Witipenow, has kept the C. nuci- 
jferum of Linnzvs distinct from the rest, and characterized 
it “ foliis trifoliolatis, calyce corollaque purpureis, an- 
theris oblongis, drupis capitis humani magnitudine: with 
which arrangement we perfectly accord. Our plant has 
ternate leaves, glabrous on both sides, and is the tree that 
produces the nut, so commonly sold under the name of the 
Suwarrow, 
