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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



VIII. COCOA-PLUM SERIES. 



a. OyncEceum central. 



Tlic Cocoa-plums' (Fr., Icaquiers — figs. 486-488) have hermaphro- 

 dite rcular flowers. The receptacle forms a hollow inverted cone 

 lined by a i^Mandular disk. In the bottom of the cone is inserted 

 the g}'na?ceum, while its edges bear the androceum and perianth. 



Chrysohalanns Icaco. 



Fig. 486. 

 Habit (I). 



The calyx consists of five free sepals quincuncially imbricated in the 

 bud. The alternating petals are also imbricated in the bud, longer 

 than the sepals, and caducous. The androceum consists of from 

 fifteen to fifty stamens, arranged in whorls as in the Plums," and 



' Chrynohalanus L., Oen., ii. r,21.— J., Oen., 369.— Ejtdt,., Gen., n. 6407.— B. H., Gen., 606, 



440.— Lamk., Diet., iii. 224; Suppl., iii. 135 ; n. \.— Icaco Plum., Gen., 43, t. 5. 

 ///., t. 428. — Trni'., Diet. Sc. Nat.,i. 236. — * It is impossible to make out this arrangement 



IX-'. Prndr., ii. r)25. — SpArit, Suit, a Buffon, i. in the ndult flowers with very numerous stamens 



