_BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 79 
Azarole (Crategus azaroleus.):—The best varieties bear no or few seeded 
fruit. Duvets, An. & Pl. he 
Banana +A, sindlees teu 
arberry :—Has a eye variety. 
Breadfruit :—The cultivated varieties usually seedless; the wild fruit and 
the <et varieties bearing seed. 
Cherries: —The cultivated varieties in part seedless. Of five varieties ex- 
amined in 1882, 140 pits had 62 abortive, and one variety 28 out of 30 abort- 
ive 
meerops stauracantha :—Has the character of producing sterile fruit, but 
mixed with fertile in the same panicle. The pulp of the fruit is of a peculiar 
The fruit is oblong, about one inch in largest diameter. It has probably been 
brought under a certain amount of cultivation from very remote times. (H. 
Prestoe, ot Trinidad Bot. Gard. 1880, p. 39.) 
Citron :—Gallesio mentions the Long orange, and the Chinese orange citrons 
as Seiten or near] 
mbers :—Are faaneuly seedless, aa when grown under glass. 
cads :—In Focke’s work, Die Pflanzen Mischlinge, he states that female 
pints. often produce apparently as cones in green-houses of Europe. yet 
their seeds contain no embryos. 
ve : —Seedless varieties are named by a number of writ 
iospyros Kaki:—V arieties often seedless, and Brandis aaeeryal a cultivat- 
ed ot of D. melanozylon, Roxb. a as without stones 
Fig:—This bears seedless ee in one crop at joke, and Brandis says many 
varieties attain maturity with sterile seed. 
rapes :—So far as I have examined, diminution of seed accompanies pro- 
gressive improvement in the grape. Many varieties of Vitis vinifera are abso- 
lutely seedless; the cultivated varieties of the American Vitis bear fewer seed 
in general, sad smaller seed, and more variable in number, than the wild spe- 
cies from which they have origin 
Guava :—This is frequently coi 
Lemon :—Seedless varieties are mentioned by several writers. 
ime :—Seedless varieties mentioned by Gallesio. 
Lueuma bifera, Mol. of Chile, bears fruit twice a year. The early set have 
no kernels, the autumn set have two kernels (Molina, Hist. of Chile, I, 129). 
Mangosteen : -—In its wild state contains four seed ; in the cultivated, much 
larger fruit, rarely more than one seed (Burbridge). 
Medlar:—A stoneless variety is advertised by a French nurseryman, and 
is mentioned by Loudon ae 
Mulberry :—Seedless varieties are mentioned i in the Orient, where the fruit 
is appreciated. 
Opuntia Davisii, Engelm.:—All the fruit seen on the route on the Upper 
Yanadian, eastward and westward of Tucumcari hills, near the Llano Esta- 
cado, were ey (Engelmann, Pac. R. R. Rept. IV, 49). 
Orange:—Seedless varieties mentioned by numerous observers. 
