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The largest of the plants (cultivated in the Eoyal Botanic Gardens 

 at Kew) from which the present description is taken, is about 7 feet 

 high, making it probable that this species attains the size of a tree. 

 Petioles and young branches purple. Largest leaves about 15 inches 

 long, and in the broadest part from 2 to 3 inches broad ; peduncles 



li inch long; calyx 1 inch long; corolla and calyx furnished with 

 glandular dots ; style and stamens as long as the corolla ; ovary uni- 

 locular. 



This species is easily distinguished from C, cucurbitina by its incras- 

 sate petioles and peculiarly-shaped leaves ; the limb of the corolla pro- 

 bably varies like that of C. cucurbitina^ where it is sometimes distinctly 

 five-lobed, and sometimes crenato-dentate or fimbriated. The native 

 country of C, macropJiylla is still unknown, but, judging from the 

 habit of the plant, I think it must be Tropical America. 



§ 2. Folia fasciculata. Corolla rubesceus vel viresceiis purpureo etfiavo 



variegata, 



3, Crescentia Cujetes Linn, ; arborea, foliis fasciculatis ex axilla 5 om- 

 nibus simplicibus lanceolato-obovatis breviter acuminatis versus ba- 

 sin longe cuneatis, supra glabris nitidis^ subtus pubemlis glabrisve, 

 fnictibus pleramque globosis, cortice lignoso duro. — C. Cujete, Linn. 

 Sp. p, 872; SwartZy Ohs. p. 234; Lam. Diet. r. 1. p, 557; Jacq, 

 Amer. p. 175. t. 111. Hook. Bat. Mag. t. 3430, Fdl. II. Flam, 

 V. 6. t. 103; Plum, et Buim, t, 109^ Jig. infer, Conim. Hort. v. 1. 

 t. 71 ! C. cuneifolia, Gard. in Booh. Journ. of Bot. t?. 2. p. 422 ! 

 C. acuminata, H.B.K., Nov. Gen, Amer. v. 3, p, 157 ! — ^Nomina 

 vemacula Americana, **Tutumo," ''Turtumo," "Palo de Tutuma," 

 "Palo de Turtuma," "Calabazo," "Calabash-tree." 



A tree, about 30 feet high, growing wild in woods, but very gene- 

 rally cultivated in tropical America, in gardens, and around human ha- 

 bitations, in open exposed situations. I have seen specimens of it 

 from Jamaica (P. Browne in Herb, Linn, prop. I W. Wright !), Cuba 

 (Humboldt et Bonpland !), Santa Lucia (Herb. Mus. Brit. !), Quiana 

 (Aublet !), Brazil (Blanchet !), Isthmus of Panama (Seemann !). 



4. Crescentia alata, H. B. K. ; arborea, foliis fasciculatis ex axilla 3, 

 medio longe petiolato trifoliolato, lateralibus simplicibus minoribus 

 sessHibus, petiolo foliolorum trifoliolatorum late alnto, fructibus glo- 

 bosis, cortice lignoso duro. — C. alata, ff. B. K. Nov. Gen. Anier, 



