a 
Puares 2618 and 2619. 
MOQUILEA PLATYPUS, Hemsi. 
Rosacex, Tribe CurysoBALANEX. 
platypus, base? Diag. Pl. Nov. Mex. pars 1, p. 9, et Bivl. 
Centr. Am: Bot. i. p. 366 ; ab omnibus speciebus hucusque descriptis 
inflorescentiz aint crassis compressis et magnitudine fructus 
recedit. 
Arbor usque ad 150 ped. alta, ramulis floriferis crassiusculis primum 
puberulis. ola distincte petiolata, crassa, coriacea, glaberrima, 
oblonga vel anguste lanceolata, 6—10- pollicaria, acuta vel subobtusa, 
basi rotundata vel cuneata, supra nitida, venis primariis lateralibus 
numerosis leviter curvatis ; Dg rade crassus, 6-7 lin. longus. ores 
racemoso-paniculati, 3-4 lin. diametro, distincte pedicellati, solitarii 
vel fasciculati ; panicule Pe 9-12 poll. longe (forsan interdum 
multo majores), ramulis crassis compressis primum puberulis. Calyx 
dense cano-tomentosus, lo ate ovatis obtusis demum reflexis, — 
caducissima. Stamina sepius 15, subeaqualin, filamentis ee villosis, 
} tus 
llos 
pro genere maximus, drupaceus, compresso-ellipsoideus, “Teele? obli- 
quus, 6-7 poll. longus, 4— 5 poll. pes ala grosse irregulariterque tuber- 
culatus vel verrucosus, sepius unispermus, mesocarpio fibroso, endo- 
carpio tenui. Semen eilfpeoideats vel oblongo- ovoideum, circiter 3 poll. 
aia cotyledonibus magnis valde fibrosis, plumula cum radicula 
par 
oui America: Panama(?) Cuming, a 2; neighbourhood of 
Granada, Nicaragua, “haga Levy, 222; Botanical Station, 
British Hbndarin, Campbell 
Kew is indebted to Mr. E. J. F. Campbell, par g of the Botanic 
Garden, British Honduras, for a number of of this remarkable 
of ‘monkey apple,’ and that it is edible. The fruit is an uncouth- 
looking object, and by no means suggests an apple. Mr. Campbell 
describes the tree as thirty to forty feet high ; Mr. Levy as 50 metres. 
It does not appear certain that any of the specimens are from wild 
trees.—W. Borrina Hemsiey. 
Plate 2618. Fig. I, a ple sine hie the gp oe ei As trig ci 
section of the same in arlier e; 3, sectio vary ; neukt ryo, with o 
cotyledon removed ; . bat ail “or embryo, 29 ie Ardy 6, axis of the 
om sinl 7, fibrous nite “of cotyledon, Figs. 4 and 5 natural size; all the rest 
PE He 2619, Flowering branch and feuit, natural size. 
