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FEeviLt&a PEDATA, Fem. FremMae Prpate 
FEvILL@A. 
sis esettetamanatenate iia 
Class and Order. 
Dracra Pevravonia, 
me ee 
as, Sa ae a 
Genera Ch 
Masc. Cal. B-fidus. Cor. 5-fida.” S Stam. 5. Net. filam. 
5, conniventia. — a 
Fem. Cal. 5 fduer Sy 8 5. ; - Pomum durum, 3—5-locu- 
~ tIare, ric 2063 a SLs 
gana Charice.” = 
Frum. pedata ; foliis pedatis a semini- 
bus reticulato-venosis an sig : 
: a some part of the 
The Fev L: i 
are . informed, it was disco- 
East-Coast of Africa, where, we ai 
vered by M. Bosir, and has’ 2eD : successfully cultivated at 
the Mauritius. Iti is said to ye spread over a large surface — 
of ground there, prodi a “much fine large fruit, contain- 
ing each about a hundred seeds, the kernels of which are 
sweet and good to eat. 
Cuartes Trtrair, Esq. superintendent of the Royal 
Garden at the Mauritius, a most zealous collector of sub- 
jects of natural history, especially of seeds, bulbs, and 
plants from Madagascar and the Kast-Coast ‘of Africa, to 
whom | the splendid collection at Bury-Hill is indebted for 
So many of its rarities, sent seeds of this plant to Mr. 
Barcuay, in June, 1825, from which our present subject 
Was raised and planted out in the” bout the latter 
end of October, and has aete so - sly, that the 
ardener inforiiily us, one | s shoots. ow fifty-six’ 
eet in length. In June a one year after the seed was 
: sown, it peedyal severa 
“but for want of the 
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