Melicocca. 823 



Knippa P. Herrn. Parad. Bat. Prodr. (1689) 344. — Nux americana foliis alatis bifidis 

 Kiggelar. Hort. Beaum. Cat. (1690) 31, ex synon.; J. Commel. Hort. Amstelod. I. (1697) 

 183 t. 94 ex Linn. et Jacq., perperam a Rieht, ad Quassiam amaram recens. et a Linn. 

 (Sp. ed. 1 et 2) ad Sapindum Saponar., ut (Sp. ed. 2) ad Melicoccam, citata. — Nux 

 americana costa foliorum appendieibus aueta, Tackboom Belgarum Pluk. Almag. (1696, 

 reimpr. 1769) 265 ex Linn. et Jacq., excl. vero Phytogr. III. (1692, reimpr. 1769) t. 207 

 f. 4 (a L. quoque in Ind. Pluk. a Giseke 1779 ed. perperam huc recens.), vix dubie Ingae 

 folium (4-jugum) exhib., ut Pluk. ipse opinatur. — Pistacia spec. J. Commel. 1. c. (1697) 

 183. — Pistaciae species fruetu magno Rajus, Hist. PI. III. (1704) lib. XXVIII (Dendro- 

 log.) 52 ex synon. — Melicoccus foliis ut plurimum bijugatis, ovatis, per pinnas alatas 

 dispositis P. Browne Hist. Jam. (1756) 210! — Sapindus Melicoccus L. Amoen. acad. V. 

 (1760, Sandmark, Fl. Jam. 1759) 378! — Schinus? Melicoccus L. (Sandmark) ibid. 379 

 (387). — Melicoccus bijugatus Jacq. Enum. (1760) 19 n. 1 et Stirp. Am. Hist. (1763) 108 

 t. 72, Ed. pict. (1780) 55 n. 1 t. 109 (quam vidi in Bibl. Mus. Brit.), Ed. Manhem. (1788) 

 136; W. Popenoe, Economic Fruit-bearing PI. of Ecuador, in Gontrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 

 XXIV. 5. (1924) 121. — Melicocca carpoodea Juss. in Mem. Mus. d'Hist. nat. III. (1817) 

 187 t. 4; Poir. in Lam. Enc. Suppl. V. (1817) 715 n. 1. — Stadmannia bijuga D. Dietr. 

 Synops. PI. II. (1840) 1304 n. 5. — Vulgo: Tackeboom P. Herrn. 1. c; Tackboom 

 Pluk. — Knippel boomt. Commel. 1. c, Knippen (Batavis) Jacq., Keneppy-tree 

 Eggers, Kanappy-tree West, Ganopy-tree Mart., Genip-tree P. Browne, Mayc. 

 (c. obs. »of Jamaica, not G.-tree of America = Gardenia«); Genipe t. Cook et Collins, 

 Econ. pl. Portor. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. VIII. (1903) 190; Ginep angl. t. Harris in 

 sched.; Gunepe angl. t. Saldanha I.e. (an recte?); Quanepas Bello; Quenepas 

 Stahl, Sintenis in sched.; Quenepa Krug in sched.; Quenepe Grosourdy (El medico 

 criollo II. [1864] 399); Kinnuptree et Keneepa Boldingh ll.ee; Kenepier s. Ke- 

 nettier Duss I.e., s. Guenettier id. in sched., Knepier Lam. — Monos Hispanis 

 t. Jacq. — Mamon t. Triana, Ernst (Famil. etc. [1881] 51), Mammon t. Humb. B. ap. 

 Kunth (a fruetus figura mammiformi), Mamoncillo t. Ramon de la Sagra (Hist. etc. 

 de Guba [1831] 349), A. Rieh., Griseb., Grosourd. 1. c, Amoncillo Grosourd. 1. c. — 

 Mambiara t. Splitgerb. in sched. — Maco in ins. Trinit. t. Grosourd. 1. c. — Guayo 

 t. Herrera (in La NaturalezaV. [1880-1881] 125); Guayat. H. Fink (ibid. IV. [1877- 

 1879] 72). — Arvore de docel t. Oliveira 1. c. — Bullace-plum t. Don. — Honey- 

 berry t. Aiton (Hort. Kew. Ed. 2. II. [1811] 350 n. 1), Halliday (West Indies [1837] 

 397), A. Rieh. — Arbor elata, glabra; folia pari-pinnata, 2-juga, raro 3-juga, petiolo 

 rhachique in apiculum filiformem brevem deeiduum terminata complanatis striatis vel 

 (praesertim rhachi) alatis, folia ramulorum infima interdum simplicia; foliola opposita 

 vel subopposita, inferiora minora ovata acuta, superiora majora elliptico-lanceolata sub- 

 acuminata, omnia basi paullulum inaequilatera, latere exteriore latiore, petiolulis per- 

 brevibus complanatis suffulta, integerrima, saepius undulata, nervo mediano quodam- 

 modo dilatato, nervis lateralibus sat approximatis oblique patulis, laxe reticulata, glabra, 

 ad paginam superiorem hypodermate instrueta; inflorescentiae masculae pluriramosae, 

 femineae saepius subsimplices; flores generis, calycis segmentis laxius ciliolatis, petalis 

 esquamatis, basi prope margines plus minus barbatis, ceterum ciliatis; fruetus generis 

 major. 



Arbor procera, comosa,ramosa, elegans ( Jacquin), 5-6 m et ultra alta (P.Browne) 

 — 15-metralis (Sintenis) — cortice griseo vel fusco, ligno duro ad aedes construendas 

 apto (Duss). Rami teretiusculi, subfusci, internodiis 1 — 3 cm longis. Folia circ. 16 cm 

 longa, 12 cm lata, petiolo circ. 6 cm, rhachi 3 cm longa; foliola inferiora circ. 8 cm longa, 

 4 cm lata, superiora circ. 11 cm longa, 5 cm lata, petiolulis 2 mm vix excedentibus. 

 Inflorescentiae folia subaequantes; pedicelli 4—8 mm longi. Flores expansi diametro 

 6—8 mm, in aliis odorem plus minus gratum exhalantes (Duss), in aliis inodori (Jac- 

 quin). Calycis segmenta subglabra. Petala laxe ciliata. Discus glaber. Stamina 

 3 — 4 mm longa, glabra (floris feminei rudimentaria). Germen 3 mm longum, 2 mm 



