20 DR. B. SEEMANN ON THE CRESCENTIACE^E. 
Herb 
Nomina 
Birschel, " Coco de mono" dicitur. 
in Venezuela, teste 
Geogr. Distr. Jamaica (Swartzl in Herb. Willd. n. 11486, W. Wright ! Purdiel Distinl) ; St. Vincent 
(Anderson !) ; Cuba (Ed. Otto !) ; St. Thomas (Moritz ! C. Ehrenberg !) ; Chagres (Fendler, n. 120) ; 
San Juan (Moritz !) ; Topo, Venezuela (Birschel !) ; St. Domingo (teste Tussac) ; Pacific shores of the 
Isthmus of Panama (Seemann !) ; Island of Gorgona (Barclay !). Commonly growing close to the 
sea, with Hibiscus tiliaceus and Hippomane Mancinella, Linn. 
A shrub about 15 feet high. 
2. Crescentta mackophylla ; arborea ; glaberrima, foliis alternis solitariis omnibus 
simplicibus obovato-lanceolatis breviter acuminatis, basin versus longe cuneatis, 
nervo (medio) utrinque acuto, petiolis basi valde incrassatis, corolla (virescente) sub- 
eampanulata, tubo elongato curvato ventricoso, limbo subregulari fimbriato-laciniato, 
lamellis stigmatis fimbriatis, fructu elliptico utrinque rostrato cortice lignoso duro. 
(v. sp. s. et v. cult.) 
Kew 
Mag 
Crescentta regia, Hort. 
Ferdinanda superba, Hort. Germ. 
Geogr. Distr. Teapa, Tabasco (Linden, n. 1608). Cultivated in Europe. 
The largest plants cultivated are about 12 feet high. Young branches and petioles 
purplish. Largest leaves 2-2^ feet long, and from 2-6 inches broad. Peduncles 1| inch 
long. Calyx and corolla furnished with glandular dots. Style and stamens as long as the 
tube of the corolla. Ovary unilocular. Fruit not unlike that of Martynia proboscidea ; the 
specimens ripened at Kew 6-8 inches long, and in the thickest part about 1 inch in 
diameter. The limb of the corolla probably varies like that of C. cacurbitina, which is 
sometimes distinctly five-lobed, sometimes crenato-dentate or fimbriated. The leaves 
resemble in shape those of C. Cujete, but their size is very much larger than that of any 
of its congeners. 
§ II. Folia fasciculata. Corolla rubescens vel virescens purpureo et flavo variegata. 
3. Crescentia Ctjjete ; arborea, foliis fasciculatis ex axilla 5, omnibus simplicibus 
lanceolato-obovatis breviter acuminatis basin versus longe cuneatis, supra glabris 
nitidis, subtus puberulis glabrisve, fructibus plerumque globosis vel globoso-oblongis, 
lignoso duro. (v. sp. v. et cult.) 
87 
75 ; Swartz 
Ma 
. 246; Seem, in Hook. Journ. and Kew M 
557 ; Jacq. Amer. p. 175, t. Ill; Hook. I 
Tussac, Fl. des Ant. ii. 80, t. 19. 
7 
ifolia 
igustifolia 
H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Amer. iii. p. 157 
DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 246. 
Nomina 
» 
in America Hispana, teste Humboldt, Bonpland et Seemann, "Tutumo," "Turtumo," "Pulo de 
Turtuma," "Palo de Tutuma" vel " Calabazo" vocatur. 
