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outside, and each bears at ia^ summit 4 

 sessile, obtuse, spreading anthers. Aublet's 

 figure of this genus, which Schreber and 

 Willdenow seem to have followed, repre- 

 sents but 2. The fruit is perhaps most 

 properly a berry with a hard coat, whose 

 seeds, when roasted, make chocolate. 

 Bubroma of Schreber, Guazuma Lamarck, 

 t. 6*37, confounded by Linnaeus with the 

 preceding genus, has similar filaments, but 

 each bears 5 anthers ; Jussieu and Cava- 

 nilles say 3. The fruit is a woody capsule, 

 with 10 rows of perforations. Abroma, 

 Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 3. t.h Miller Illusir. 

 t. 63, has 5 parcels of anthers, nearly 

 sessile on the outside of the nectary, be- 

 tween its obtuse, reflexed, notched lobes. 

 It is difficult to say how many anthers 

 compose each parcel, for the different ac- 

 counts on record are totally irreconcileable* 

 We have found 3 ; the drawing sent to 

 Linnseus represents 6 ; and Miller has a 

 much greater number. Perhaps they may 

 vary. In this uncertainty the genus in 

 question is best placed with its natural al- 

 lies in this order, with a reference to it in 

 italics at the end of Polyadelphia Poly an- 



