APPENDIX, No. V. 475 
Two remarkable plants, the Akee* and the Jamaica or American Nutmeg,+- 
now cultivated in the West India colonies; and the former undoubtedly, 
the latter probably, introduced from Africa by the Negroes, were neither met 
with on the banks of the Congo, nor haye they been yet traced to any part of 
the west coast. 
The relation which the vegetation of the Eastern shores of equinoctial 
Africa has to that of the west coast, we have at present no means of determin- 
ing; for the few plants, chiefly from the neighbourhood of Mozambique, included 
in Loureiro’s Flora Cochinchinensis, and a very small number collected by 
Mr. Salt on the same part of the coast, do not afford materials for comparison 
The character of the collections of Abyssinian Plants made by Mr. Salt in 
his two journeys, forming part of Sir Joseph Banks’s herbarium, and 
amounting to about 260 species, is somewhat extratropical, and has but little 
affinity to that of the vegetation of the west coast of Africa. 
To the Flora of Egypt, that of Congo has still less relation, either in the 
number or proportions of its natural families: the herbarium, however, 
* Blighia sapida, Konig in Annals of Bot. 2, p.511. Hort. Kew. ed. 2da. vol. 2, p. 350. 
Al the moment that this sheet was about to have been sent to the press, Sir Joseph 
Banks received a small collection of specimeus and figures of plants, observed in the 
late Mission to Cummazee, the capital of Ashantee ; and among them a drawing of the 
fruit and leaf of a plant, there called 4tiweah or Altuah, which is no doubt the A4kee, 
whose native country is therefore now ascertained. 
+ Monodora myristica, Dunal Annonac. p. 80. Decand. Syst. Nat. Reg. Poget. 1, 
p. 4717. Anona myristica, Gert. Sem. 2, p. 194, t. 125, p.1. Lunan Hort. Jamaic. 2, 
p.10. This remarkable plant is very properly separated from Anona, and considered as a 
distinct genus by M. Dunal in his monograph of Anonacez. The character given of this 
new genus, however, is not altogether satisfactory, M- de Candolle’s description, from 
which it is derived, having probably been taken from specimens which he had it not in 
his power to examine completely. Both these authors have added to this genus Annona 
microcarpa of Jacquin (Fragm., Bot p. 40, t. 44,f. 1), established by that author from 
the fruit of my Cargillia australis(Prodr. Flor. Nov. Holl. 1, p. 521) which belongs to the 
very different family of Ebenacez. 
Long, in his History of Jamaica (vol. 8, p. 135.) has given the earliest account of 
Monodora Myristica, under the name of the American Nutmeg, and considers it to have 
been probably introduced from South America: according to other accounts, it comes 
from the Mosquito shore; but there is more reason to suppose that it has been brought 
by the Negroes from some part of the west coast of Africa, 
