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fruit is perhaps most properly a berry with a hard 

 coat, whose seeds, when roasted, make chocolate. 

 Buhroma of Schreber, Guazuma Lamarck^ t, 6^7, 

 confounded by Linnseus with the preceding genus, 

 has similar filaments, but each bears live anthers ; 

 Jussieu and Cavanilles say three. The fruit is a 

 woody capsule, with ten rows of perforations. 

 Abroma, Jacq. Hort. Vind. v. 3, t, 1. Miller 

 Illustr, t. 63, has tive parcels of anthers, nearly 

 sessile on the outside of the nectary, between its 

 obtuse, reflexed, notched lobes. It is difficult to say 

 how many anthers compose each parcel, for the dif- 

 ferent accounts on record are totally irreconcileable. 

 AV'e have found three; the drawing sent to Linnaeus 

 represents six ; and Miller has a much greater num- 

 ber. Perhaps they may vary. In this uncertainty 

 the genus in question is best placed with its natural 

 aUies in this order, with a reference to it in italics at 

 the end of Polyadelphia Polyandria. Its fruit is a 

 membranous winged capsule, opening at the top. 

 Monsonia, Curt, Mag. t, 73, Lamarck t. 638, re- 

 moved by Schreber and Willdenow to Monadelphia, 

 rather, I think, belongs to this class, where Linnaeus 

 placed it. The five filaments, bearing each three 

 long-stalked anthers, are merely inserted into a short 

 membranous cup, or nectary, for so the analogy of 

 the three preceding genera induces us to call it ; and 

 if we refer Monsonia to Monadelphia, we fall into 

 the error of Cavanilles mentioned p. 333. Lastly^^ 



