trunk a foot in diameter, clothed with a reddish-brown 

 bark, with branches and twigs spreading on every side, and 

 reaching almost to the ground." — Sloane. The young 

 branches are clothed with silky, ferruginous, appressed 

 hairs. The leaves are alternate, elliptical, four to five 

 inches long, entire, shortly acuminated, dark green and 

 glabrous, or with only a few scattered hairs above, beneath 

 glossy, with abundant, closely-pressed, golden-rust-colour- 

 ed hairs, (aureo-nitentia) which give a satiny appearance, 

 " in beauty and strangeness," says Sloane, (e much beyond 

 any leaf I ever beheld." The nerves are numerous, parallel, 

 and transverse. Petioles short, scarcely more than half an 

 inch long. The flowers arise from the axils of the leaves, 

 or sometimes from the extremity of the young branches : 

 they are on short, single -flowered, aggregated stalks, 

 shorter than the petioles. Calyx in five, in our specimens 

 four, deep roundish lobes, rust-coloured, and satiny. Corolla 

 subcampanulate, yellowish-white, the limb cut into five or 

 four roundish lobes. Stamens inserted at the base of the 

 limb, and opposite the lobes of it, very small. Filaments 

 short, scarcely longer than the rounded, two-lobed anthers. 

 Germen ovate, hairy : Style shorter than the germen : Stigma 

 obtuse. The fruit is a large, globose, ten-celled Berry, 

 m which, however, some of the cells are usually abortive. 

 Seed large, compressed, marked with an umbilical areola : 

 its albumen fleshy. The Embryo large, erect, the cotyle- 

 dons fleshy, with a curved radicle. 



The Star-apple is a well-known fruit of the West Indies, 

 where, however, it appears to be more esteemed by the 

 natives than it is by Europeans ; yet I am not aware that any 

 good figure of it exists in the more recent Botanical publi- 

 cations. In our stoves, where it has been known since 

 1737, when it was introduced by Philip Miller, it recom- 

 mends itself by the beauty of its foliage, particularly on the 

 underside : for its flowers not only appear but seldom, but 

 they are small in size, and by no means of a brilliant colour. 

 They were produced in the month of November, 1830, in 

 the stove of the Glasgow Botanic garden. With the view 

 to render the figure more complete, the fruit and seeds are 

 given, copied from Gartner. 



The wood is said to be serviceable for indoor work, if 

 preserved from moisture. 



* Fig. 1. Flower. 2. The same cut open, nat. size. 3. Fruit cut open 

 ansversr 1 " 

 nat. size. 



sly. 4. Seed. 5. Seed cut through transversely (from Gjjkt»**'' j 



