ANON ACE*;. 11 



A. maxima, Sloane, Jam. II. 167. t. 226 A. reticulata, De 



Cand. Syst. I. 473. Prod. I. 85 Hooker, Bot. Mag. 2911 



and 2912. 



HAB. Port-Royal mountains. St Thomas in the East. 

 Not uncommon. 



FL. June. 



A tree 15 20 feet in height : branches spreading, virgate, 

 subflexuose, towards their extremities albido-papillose, and 

 appresso-pubescent. Leaves 68 inches long, nerved, some- 

 what rugulose, obtuse at the base, to the glass minutely puberu- 

 lous especially the under surface of the nerves. Peduncles 

 lateral, branched, bearing about 3 pedicelled flowers. Flowers 

 pendent. Sepals minute, subcordate, acute. Outer petals large, 

 linear, obtuse, greenish, thick, 3-quetrous, excavated and stained 

 with purple internally at the base : inner petals minute, lineari- 

 oblong, green, stained with red near the apex. Fruit rather 

 larger than a full-sized orange, of a brownish colour with dots 

 of a darker shade, marked with angular reticulations whose 

 areolse are constituted by the enlarged and united pistils : pulp 

 yellowish-white : seed numerous, oblong, compressed, of a dark 

 shining brown colour : albumen horny, marked with numerous 

 transverse lines. 



This would be a very excellent fruit w.ere it not that it is rather 

 too luscious to the taste. It is very common in the plain of 

 Liguanea ; the fruit however is seldom brought to market. It is 

 said to be a remedy for diarrhoea and dysentery. I suspect how- 

 ever that it can only pretend to tins character from being light 

 and easily digested. The French colonists give it the name 

 of CffiUR DE BCEUF, Ox-heart ; to which in shape it bears some 

 resemblance. 



For a full description, and for an accurate figure, the reader 

 is referred to Vol. III. of the New Series of the Botanical 

 Magazine. 



II. MONODORA. 



Calycine sepals 3, united at the base. Petals 6, 

 united at the base ; 3 exterior, oblongo-lanceolate, 

 imdulato-crisped ; 3 interior, cordiform, connivent. 

 Anthers numerous sessile, surrounding the base of 

 the ovary. Ovary single : stigma sessile. Berry 

 smooth, subglobose, 1 -celled: seeds oo, imbedded in 

 pulp. 



A genus first established by Dunal. Name, from povot one, 

 and dugov a gift, in allusion to its solitary fruit. 



1. Monodora Myristica. Calabash-Nutmeg. 



