2 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
ROSACEZ. 
The generic name, from ypvods and BdAaros, was established by Linnzus, who discarded Plumier’s 
name of Iecaco.1 
America ; the seeds, too, are well suited to float, their structure 
protecting them for a long time from the influence of salt water, 
and as the species inhabits the shores of the ocean the seed washed up 
on such shores would find suitable diti ti The 
t ly in Africa only on the 
for ger: 
Cocoa Plum, 
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west coast, or opposite America, while in the New World it is as 
common on the Pacific as on the Atlantic seaboard. On the other 
hand, the fact that the French in Senegal call it Prune d’ Amérique 
might indicate that it had first been carried to Africa by man, and 
then, having become naturalized, had gradually spread along the 
coast. 
1 Nov. Pl. Am. Gen. 43, t. 5. 
