lo wish-white, crowned with a sessile, flattened stigma." 

 Dr. Bancroft, on dissecting the recent germen, found it to 

 be " thick and fleshy, having a small cavity in the centre, 

 with globular ovules arranged around the whole internal 

 surface, the seedstalk varying in length." 



The fruit is figured and described by Gartner as, cc a 

 simple, nearly globose, one -celled, glabrous, corticated 

 Berry. Receptacle none, but the Seeds imbedded, without 

 order*, in the pulp: they are ovato-oblong, angled by 

 mutual pressure, ferruginous. Integument double. Albumen 

 of the same form as the seed, fleshy, hard, sculptured with 

 deep, nearly parallel lines, and a longitudinal furrow. 

 Cotyledons foliaceous, cordato-lanceolate. Radicle rounded, 

 directed to the hilum." 



We are much indebted to Dr. Bancroft of Jamaica for a 

 drawing, and specimens both dried and in spirits, and for an 

 accurate description of this rare and little-known plant. 

 The fruit alone was described by Gjertner, under the name 

 of Anona Myristica, from Sir Joseph Banks's Museum. 

 According to the Hortus Jamaicensis, the tree is reported 

 to have been brought from the continent of South America f 

 and planted at the Retreat Estate, Clarendon, Jamaica, 

 where it was described by Long, but where it has since been 

 destroyed. That author says of it, that the seeds are all 

 packed close with singular regularity, so that after displac- 

 ing them, it is impossible to restore them to the same order 

 and compactness as before : — that they are impregnated 

 with an aromatic oil, resembling that of the Eastern Nutmeg, 

 from which they differ so little in flavour and quality, that 

 they may be used for similar purposes in food or medicine; 

 the only perceptible difference to the taste being that they 

 are less pungent than the East Indian Nutmeg : and he 

 recommends it to general cultivation. Dunal, who had the 

 use of Professor DeCandolle's notes, made from dried spe- 

 cimens in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, determined it to be a 

 Genus widely distinct from Anona, differing indeed in the 

 structure of the petals and fruit, as Dr. Bancroft correctly 



remarks, 



Dr. Bancroft justly observes, that it is only necessary to observe the 

 ^position of the seeds, as represented in Gartner's own figure, to perceive 

 that their position is the very reverse of being" absque ordine" , the hilum of 

 each seed being regularly centrifugal, as might have been anticipated from the 

 Kind of arrangement which is to be seen in the ovules of the Germen. 



T Mr. Brown considers it more probable, that it was brought by the 

 Negroes from some part of the West coast of Africa. 



