APPENDIX. Xo. 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 

 vnxh on the banks of the Congo, nor have 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 tiie 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 famlHes : the herbarium, however, 



* Blighia sapida, Konig in Annuls of Bot. 2, p.blX. Hart. Kew. ed. Srfa. vof. 2, p. 350. 



Al the iiKiment that this sheet was about to have been sent to the press, Sir Joseph 

 Banks received a small colleclion of specimeus and figures of plants, observed in the 

 late Mission to Cummazee, the capital of Ashantee ; and among thcra a drawing of the 

 fruit and leaf of a plant, there called AHueuh or Alluah, which is no doubt the Akee, 

 whose native country is therefore now ascertained. 



+ Monodora myristica, Dunal Annonac. p. 80. Decand. Syst. Nat. Reg. Figet. 1, 

 p. in. Anona myristica, Gcert. Sem. 2, p. \9i, t- 125, p. I. 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 Anonaces. The character given of this 

 new genus, however, is not allogelher 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 

 raicrocarpa of Jacquin (Fragm. Bot. p. 40. 1. 44,/. 7), established by that author from 

 the fruit of my Cargil/ia auslralis(Prodr. Flor. Nor. Holl. 1, p. SST) which belongs to the 

 very different family of Ebenaces. 



Long, in his History of Jamaica (vol. 3, 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. 



