Plate 2512. 



CALVARIA MAJOR, Gcertn./. 



- \POTACE/E. 



C. major, Gcertn. /, Fruct., SuppL p. 116. t. 200; inter Sapotaceas 

 aftines ob semen horizontale insignis. 



Arbor ramulis floriferis crassis novellis cito glabrescentibus. Folia 

 ad apices ramulorum conferta, distincte petiolata, petiolis ferrugineo- 

 puberulis 6-12 lin. longis, coriacea, obovato-oblonga, 4-7 poll, longa, 

 apice obtusa vel rotundata emarginata vel interdum obtuse subacumi- 

 nata, basi cuneata, leviter undulata, venis primariis lateralibus nume- 

 rosis haud conspicuis, venis ultimis crebre reticulars, costa supra 

 impressa subtus elevata. FJores secus ramulos elongatos infra folia 

 fasciculati, breviter pedicellati, 3-4 lin. longi. Sepala 5, crassa, 

 coriacea, ferrugineo-pubescentia, rotundata, valde imbricate. Corolla 

 tubus brevissimus ; lobi 5 rotundati. Stamina 5, inclusa, glabra, starai- 

 nodia 5, angusta, tenuia, induplicata, intus leviter pilosa, stamina 

 paulo superantia. Ovarium hirsutum, 5-loculare, ovula in quoque 

 loculo solitaria. Fructus pyriformis vel ovoideus, circiter 2h poll, 

 longus, 1-spermus, pericarpio tenui carnoso-fibroso. Semen horizon- 

 tale, hilo maximo inferiore ; testa crassissima, densissima, vasis fibrosis 

 perforata et intus fibrosa ; albumen parcum ; embryo magnitudine fere 

 albuminis, horizontalis, axilis, cotyledonibus orbicularibus planis, radi- 

 cula brevi. 



Mauritius : Montagnes des Immortelles, A. Daruty, communicated 

 by Bouton ; without special locality, W. Scott. 



This is the ' Bois de Natte,' or at least one of the trees bearing that 

 name in Mauritius. It is also called the ' Tambolacoque,' and it is 

 doubtless the Calvaria major of Gsertner the younger ; but its synonymy 

 cannot be given with certainty. Bouton sent two different plants to 

 Kew on different occasions, which he confused. He correctly identi- 

 fied one of them with Calvaria, and sent both fruits and flowering speci- 

 mens ; but he appears to have been wrong in supposing that Calvaria 

 major, Gsertn. f., was the same as Sideroxylon boutonianum A. DC. 

 (Proclr. viii. p. 179). Baker (Flora of Mauritius, p. 193) places Cal- 



