18 DR. B. SEEMANN ON THE CRESCENTIACE^. 
rous herds of cattle. Bullocks especially, if fed with Guinea grass, Batatilla (Ipomcea 
brachypoda, Bth. = I. variabilis, Chois.), and the fruit of this tree, soon get fat. It is 
generally admitted, however, that their meat partakes in some degree of the peculiar 
apple-like smell of the fruit ; but that is by no means disagreeable, and easily got rid of 
if, for a few days previous to the killing of the animal, the food is changed. As the 
principal harvest is at a season when all herbaceous vegetation is dried up, the culti- 
vation of this tree in tropical countries is especially to be recommended : a few acres 
of it at each farm would effectually prevent that want of fodder always severely felt after 
the periodical rains have ceased." 
2. Parmentiera edtjlis; ramis aculeatis, aculeis sub foliis insertis, foliis aliis simpli- 
cibus ovato oblongis vel cuneato-lanceolatis, aliis trifoliolatis, foliolis ovato-oblongis 
utrinque attenuatis integerrimis, petiolo superne anguste alato vel nudo, corolhe 
(virescentis) lobis undulato-crispis, fructu angulato tuberculato. (v. sp. s.) 
Parmentiera edulis, De Cand. Rev. Bignon. p. 19; Prodr. ix. p. 244. Seem, in Hook. Journ. and Kew 
Misc. vi. p. 273. 
Parmentiera aculeata y Seem, in Bot. Herald, p. 183. 
Crescentia aculeata, Humb. BonpL et Kunth, Nov. Gen. Amer. iii. p. 158; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 247- 
Crescentia edulis, Desv. Journ. Bot. iv. p. 112; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 246; M09. Fl. Mex. ined. fide DC. 
Crescentia musacarpa, Zaldivar, Fl. Mex. ined. nov. ; Heller, Reisen in Mexiko, p. 414. 
Quauxhichotl seu arbor Cucumeris rnoschati, Hernandez, Mex. p. 90. 
Nomina vernacula Mexicana : * Quauxhichotl," " Quaunuxilotl," w Quaxilote " et * Cuajilote" teste 
DeCand. et Heller. 
r. Distr. Mexico (Schiedel n. 1207* Coulter !). According t< 
according to Desvaux, in Guaxaca ; according to Humboldt 
catepic ; and according to Coulter, at Zinapan. 
Hernandez, it is found in Y 
5. Crescentia, Linn. 
Calyx deciduus, bilabiatus, lobis integerrimis. Corolla subcampanulata, tubo elongato, fauce magna 
ventricosa, limbo inaequaliter 5-fido vel crenato aut fimbriato-laciniato. Stamina 4, cum rudimento 
quinti. Ant her a biloculares, loculis divergentibus. Discus glandulosus ovarii basin cingens. Stylus 
elongatus; stigma bilamellatum. Ovarium 1-loculare, multiovulatum. Fructus globosus, ovatus 
vel ellipsoideus, cortice lignoso, spurie 2-locularis, intus pulposus. Semina plurima. Albumen 
nullum. Embryo magnus. 
Arbores vel frutices arborescentes in America tropica indigenae, in Asia et Africa cultae, foliis alternis 
solitariis vel fasciculatis, simplicibus vel trifoliolatis, pedunculis e trunco ramisve ortis, corollis 
rubentibus, virescentibus, vel virescentibus purpureo et flavo variegatis, fructibus virescentibus vel 
flavescentibus. 
Crescentia, Linn. Gen. n. 772 ; Endl. Gen. Plant, n. 417 ; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 246 excl. sp. ; Seem, in 
Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. vi. p. 273. 
Cujete, Plum. Gen. 1. 16. 
Crescentia Cujete, linn., the species upon which the genus Crescentia was founded, is 
distinguished from its congeners by its fasciculate leaves, all of which are simple, and its 
fruit, the shell of which is so hard that it can be broken only by the application of an axe 
or some other sharp instrument. To this species C. cuneifolia, Gardn. must be added as 
a synonym, as the latter is in no way distinct from the former, some of the specimens in 
