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CHRYSOPHYLLUM MONOPYRENUM. DATE- 
SHAPED, oR DaAMASCENE-PLUM, STAR-APPLE. 
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Class and Order. 
PenranpriaA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Sapore. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx quinquepartitus, parvus, foliolis subrotundis obtu- 
sis persistentibus. Corolla campanulata brevis, limbi laci- 
niis 5 subrotundis patentissimis, tubo brevioribus. Fila- 
menta tubo imposita conniventia. Stylus brevissimus, 
stigmate obtuso subquinquefido. Bacca globosa, 10-locu- 
laris, magna, seminibus solitariis osseis compressis, cicatri- 
cula notatis, nitidis. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
CurysoPpHyLLuM monopyrenum ; foliis ovalibus breviter acu- 
minatis supra nitidis subtus aureo-sericeis parallelo- 
nervosis, pedicellis sparsis axillaribus terminalibusque | 
aggregatis, fructibus drupaceis monospermis ovato- 
oblongis dactyliformibus. . 
CurysopHyttum monopyrenum. Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ.v.1. 
p.480. Rem. et Schultes, v. 4. p.703. Spreng. Syst. 
Veg.v. 1. p. 666. Pe ae 
Curysorpnyiium oliviforme. Lam. Encycl.v.1, p. 552. 
Curysopuytium Cainito. 8. Mart. Mill. Dict. No. I. (excl. 
Syn.)—Burm. Pl. Amer. t. 69. a een 
Miss Youne has kindly favoured me with a beautiful 
drawing, in which she has represented, with her usual 
ability, all the leading characteristics of this tree, with its 
changes of foliage and fruit. The flowering branch was 
drawn in March ; the fruit added in the following August, 
from the same individual tree, which grows on the ad ( 
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