Suwarrow, or Butter Nut. Of this it has fallen to the lot 
of Mr. Guixpine to illustrate not only the flower, but the 
fruit, in a way, which, we trust, will prevent all further 
confusion. 
The tree is a native of the continent of South America, 
in the districts of Essequibo and Berbice, and the leaves, 
as well as nuts, have more than once been communicated to 
us from those countries, by C. S. Parker, Esq.*. It was, 
however, from a tree, imported into the island of St. Vin- 
cent’s, that the drawings here given and many others, which 
the limited nature of our work will not allow us to intro- 
duce, were made. We have confined ourselves to the 
more essential figures, selected from a series of four folio 
drawings. The flowers, Mr. Guitpine observes, may, 
occasionally, expand more than they are here represented ; 
but the tree being at a great distance from our friend’s 
residence, he had not the opportunity of frequent access 
to it. 
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* Mr. Parker writes us word “ of the Souari (or, by corruption, 
Suwarra Nut), I have only seen one kind, and that not often, in our ill- 
supplied market at George Town, Demerara. It is the kind I sent you, 
which I always took for the C. nuciferum. In its native woods I never ga- 
thered the Souari Nut but once, during a hasty excursion to the summit of 
the “ Blue Mountains,” on the left bank of the Essequibo river. When we 
had attained the summit of the ridge, perhaps six or eight hundred feet above 
the level of the sea (the highest ground I ever stood upon in the colony), I 
found first a Nut, and then a decayed Drupe upon the ground. The trees were 
very lofty which produced them, and, I think, I may safely say, that their 
stems grew perfectly straight, without a branch for seventy or eighty feet, 
like vast columns.” : 
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Tar. 2727. Fig. 1. A small terminal flower-bearing Branch; having few 
basse ca = with others), and from which most of the leaves are 
removed. At the letter a, is a scar whence a leaf has fallen. A peduncle 
“i seen, from which the corolla and stamens — dropped ; "eo Se me 
Flower, perhaps not quite so much expanded as when in 
State. 3. Calyx, with slcaee cut through transversely, to show the Ovules. 
—All of these are the natural size. 4. Portion of the Stamens, shewing 
their union at the base, and their mode of splitting into distinct bundles. 
5. Front view of an Anther. 6. Back view of the same, to show the insertion 
of the Filaments. 7. Pollen —All magnified. , 
Tas. 2728. Ag ie i taining three Seeds, reduced to about one- 
third of its eet ey mee of the same, shewing the situation of the 
Seeds, and their intermediate pulpy envelope, similarly diminished. 3. 
Nut.—Natural size. 4. The same cut open to show the Seed. 5. The 
Embryo. 6. Seed laid open, to show the internal appearance of the Embryo. 
—All these of the natural size. Z 
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