DR. B. SEEMANN ON THE CRESCENTIACEiE. 21 
Geogr. Distr. Jamaica (P. Browne ! in Herb. Linn, propr., W. Wright\); Cuba {Humboldt et Botiplandl 
Ed. Ottol); Santa Lucia (Herb. Mus. Brit. !) ; St. Thomas (C. Ehrenberg\) ; Guiana (Aublet\) ; 
Guatemala (Friedrichsthal ! n. 1186); Surinam {Splitzgerber !) ; Brazil {Blanchet !) ; Isthmus of 
Panama (Seemann !) ; Cumana (Herb. Mus. Par. !) ; Puerto Caballo (Karsten !) ; Cartago <le 
Quindiu (Boussingault !) ; Peru (Dombey !) ; Key West, Florida (Blodgett in Herb. Tomy !). Cul- 
tivated throughout the Tropics and in European gardens. 
A tree about 30 feet high, generally crowded with Orchhlea, Ferns, Bromeliacece, and 
other epiphytical plants. Fruits generally attaining the size of 32-pounder cannon-balls. 
4. Crescentia alata; arborea; foliis fascieulatis ex axilla 3, medio longe petiolato 
trifoliolato, lateralibus simplicibus minoribus similibns, pctiolo foliorum foliolatorum 
late alato, fructibus globosis, corticc ligno duro. (v. sp. v. et cult.) 
Crescentia alata. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Amer. iii. p. 158: DcCand. Prodr. ix. p. 247; Seem, in Hook. 
ind Kew Misc. vi. p. 275 j Seem. Parad. Vindobonens. ii. t. 87 
ifolia, Blanco, Fl. Filipin. p. 489 ; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 247- 
Nomina vernacula : in M 
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Hoj 
Geogr. Distr. Common on the western coast of Mexico, from Acapulco to Mazatlan [Humboldt and 
Bonplandl Gregg ! n. 944 ; Seemann !) ; Itztoluca {Ehreuberg !) ; Central America {l/erm. WerullandX). 
Cultivated in Veraguas (Seemann\), Mariana Islands (Gaudichaudl in Herb. Berol.), Manilla 
(Perrottet\ in Herb. Par.), and in European gardens, having been introduced by me in 1850 to 
Kew. 
The size of the fruit is that of a large orange. 
Species exclusce 
C. aculeata, H. B. K. = Parmentiera edidis, DeCand. 
C. edulis, Desv., Moz.= Parmentiera edulis, DeCand. 
C.jasminoides, Lam. = Gardenia clusiafolia, Jacq. 
C.pinnata, Jacq.=Kigelia pinnata, DeCand. 
6. Kigelia, DeCand. 
Flos resupinatus. Calyx deciduus, tubuloso-campanulatus, bilabiatus, labiis irregulariter fissis et hinc 
calycem spurie 5-fidum constituentibus. Corolla tubo brevi, fauce lata campanulata, limbo sub- 
sequaliter 5-lobo, lobis ovatis acuminatis. Stamina 4, didynama, cum quinto sterili. Anthera 
biloculares, loculis basi longe discretis. Discus 
Stylus staminum 
fere longitudine ; stigma bilamellatum. Ovarium uniloculare, multiovulatum, glabrum, placentis 
parietalibus. Bacca elongato-ellipsoidea seu cylindracea, 2- 4-plove latitudine longior, cortice 
corticato, intus pulposa, spurie 2-locularis. Semina in pulpa nidulantia, subrotunda vel ovoidea, 
testa fuscescente. Albumen nullum. Cotyledones (fide DC.) rotundatae, externe longitudinaliter 
plicatae segregatae. 
Ibido, foliis oppositis imparipinnatis, foliolis (5-11) 
us, terminali obovato, integerrimis vel subrepando- 
Afi 
paniculis 
ramis v 
am 
uric, lat.) pendulis, albidis. 
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Seem, in Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. vi. p. 276. 
Bignoniae, Tecoma, Crescentice, Tancecii et Tripinnaria spec. auct. 
Sotor, Fenzl, Vortrag liber eine Crescent.-Gattung, p. 1. 
