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Achras Sapota. Common Sapota. 

 Bully-Tree. 



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Class and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Sapote^. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cat. 6- (raro 5-) partitus. Cor. 6-fida. Stamina 6 ste- 

 rilia squamae for mia., cum totidem fertilibus alternantia. 

 Ovarium 12 — 6-loculare. Pomum 12 — 6-spermum. Nu~ 

 ces compressae,, osseae,, ventre longitudinaliter deraso. Semen 

 albuminosum. Br. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Achras* Sapota; foliis oblongo-ellipticis acutis, peduneulis 

 calycibus petiolisque ferrugineo-pubescentibus, fila- 

 mentis sterilibus oblongis obtusis., ovario pluri-loculari. 



(«.) fructu elliptico seu ovato. 



Achras Sapota. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 470. Willd. Sp. PL v. 

 2. p. 224. Jacq. Am. p. 57. t. 41. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 

 2. v. 2. p. 312. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 132. 



Achras fructu elliptico scabro majore. Brown, Jam. p. 

 200. t. 19. / 3. 



(j3.) fructu subrotundo subdepresso. (Sappadilla or Nase- 

 berry tree.) 



Achras Sapota, (3. Jacq. Am. I. c. t. 41, (3. 



Achras Zapotilla. Browne, Jam. p. 200. 



Anona foliis laminis, &c. Sloane, Jam. v. 2. p. 171. t. 230. 



Anona maxima, &c. Sloane, Jam. v. 2. p. 172. t. 169. / 2. 



Descr. This, according to Sloane, is one of the largest trees 

 in the mountainous woods of the island of Jamaica. Jacquin says 

 the height varies from ten to fifty feet : Mr. Guilding states it 

 from thirty to forty feet. From every part of it a tenacious, 

 viscid, white juice is distilled. The wood is white, the bark brown. 

 Branches numerous, forming a spreading top. Leaves numerous, 

 almost all of them placed in clusters at the extremity of the younger 

 tranches, three to four inches long, coriaceous, shining, elliptical- 

 oblong, acute, glabrous, the midrib prominent behind, the lateral 



nerves 



* From the Greek «;#»?, a wild pear, from some resemblance in the fruit 

 to that of a pear. 



