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Jainbosa otcaricnsis. Waree Rose Apple. This is a stiiali tree, 

 about twenty feet high ; cymes panicled, terminal; branches oppo- 

 site, three-flowered, especially at the apex ; calyxes turbinate, 

 shortly and bluntly four-lobed ; leaves oval, acuminated, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, surty beneath ; the veins of the leaves are parallel in the 

 figure and rather prominent ; they are three inches long and about 

 one and a half broad ; the stamens very numerous, exserted ; 

 branches furnished with super-axillary, opposite tubercles ; fruit 

 unknown, but in the form of the calyx this plant agrees Avith cam- 

 b:)sa. Native of the west coast of Africa^ in the Kingdom of Waree. 



Junihosa ohlusissima. Obtused-leaved Rose Apple. This tree 

 rises about twenty-five feet in heigiit ; panicles corymbose, terminal 

 or latteral ; branches three-flowered ; calyx four-cleft, attenuated at 

 the ba.se; leaves almost sessile, oblong, obtuse, somewhat cordate at 

 the base, coriaceous and glabrous. It is a native of Java. 



Jamhosa densajlora. Dense-flowered Rose Apple. This species 

 rises about twenty feet in height; corymbs terminal, coarctate ; 

 pedicles three-flowered ; calyx four-cleft, very much attenuated at 

 the base ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, acuminated 

 at both ends. Native by the .sea-side, in the Island of Nusa-Kam- 

 banga, in the East Indies, where it is called by the inhabitants 

 Jumbon. 



Jarnhosa glabrata. Smooth Rose Apple. This is rather a dwarf- 

 ish tree; peduncles filiform, one to three-flowered, glabrous and 

 shorter than the leaves; ovarium clavate; calyx four-cleft; leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, bluntly accuminated, finely veined, quite glabrous; 

 calyx attenuated at the base. This dwarfish and shrubby looking 

 tree is a native of Java on the mountains. 



Propagation and Culture. This is a genus of fine trees, witji 

 large foliage, beautiful flowers, and eatable fruit. They thrive well 

 in a mixture of sand, loam, and peat; and flower freely when the 

 plants are of good size. Ripened cuttings strike root readily in 

 sand under a hand-glass. 



