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I. 91. t. 200. f. 1. — Clusia arborea, foliis crassis nitidis obovato- 

 subrotundis, floribus solitariis, Browne, 236. — C, flava, Jacq. 

 Amer. 272. t. 1G7. 



HAB. Common, on rocks. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



A tree, seldom more than 20 feet in height, usually parasitic, 

 of an irregular growth. Fruit size and shape of a fig ; and 

 hence it is commonly called the wild Jig by the Negroes. A 

 viscid yellow juice flows from every part of the plant when cut ; 

 but it is not known to possess any useful property, with the 

 exception that it has been employed as a dressing to sores in 

 horses, and by the Indians, mixed with tallow, to paint their 

 boats. 



II. Mammea. 



Calycine sepals 2, coloured. Petals 4, coriaceous. 

 Stamens numerous, very short, with minute oblong 

 anthers. Style 1, terete, persistent. Stigma capi- 

 tate. Berry fleshy, generally crowned with the re- 

 mains of the style. Seeds 4, or by abortion 2-3. 



Trees: flowers hermaphrodite or male. — Name, hova. the 

 American designation of the fruit. 



1. Mammea Americana. American Mamee-tree. 



Leaves oval acute at the base very obtuse at the 

 apex entire, fruit large 4-seeded. 



Mains Persica maxima, foliis rotundis splendentibus glabris, 

 fructu maximo scabro rugoso, Shane, II. 123. t. 217. f. 3. — 

 Mammea foliis ovalibus, Broione, 248. — M. Americana, Jacq, 

 Amer. 268. t. 181. f. %2.— Vahl, Eclog. II. 40. 



HAB. Not uncommon ; wild and cultivated. 



FL. June. 



A spreading tree : branches scabrous. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, oval, rounded and sometimes emarginate at the apex, 

 attenuated at the base, very entire, coriaceous, very glabrous, 

 shining, transversely and parallelly striated: petiole about 

 an inch in length, terete, plane above. Peduncles distributed 

 along the branches ; in the hermaphrodite trees solitary, in the 

 barren 3-4 together, about an inch in length, 1-flowered. 

 Flowers large, white, fragrant. Calycine sepals oval, concave, 

 coriaceous. Petals 4 ; (sometimes 5 and then uneqnal), ellip- 

 tic, rounded at the apex, concave. Stamens numerous, inserted 

 on the torus ; filaments short, cohering at the base : anthers 

 club-shaped. Pistil, in the barren flowers, awanting ; in the 

 fertile, the ovary globose : style thick, cylindrical : stigma 

 capitate. Fruit size of the largest orange, of a russet colour; 

 seeds rarely 4 ; usually, from abortion 3-2. 



