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rent on the petiole, elliptic to oblanceolate or linear-oblong, 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 0.8-2.5 

 cm. broad, obtuse and occasionally emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire 

 or sometimes irregularly crenate, coriaceous, pellucid-punctate, puberulent on the veins 

 beneath, glabrous and lustrous above; inflorescence 1.5-6 cm. long; calyx sparingly 

 hairy; sepals 5, rarely 6. triangular, pointed or blunt, ciliate ; petals 5, sometimes 6, 

 elliptic or oblong, 4-4.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. broad, pointed of obtuse ; ovary 5-celled or 

 occasionally 6-celled and lobed, subglobose ; drupe about 5 cm. in diameter, sweet and edible, 

 2- or sometimes only 1-seeded. 



Type collected near Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, September 5, 1891, C. G. PringleSS61. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



5. Casimiroa Pringlei (S. Wats.) Engler, in E. & P. Nat. 

 Pfl. 3 4 : 178. 1896. 

 Sargentia (?) Pringlei S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 26 : 134. 1891. 



A shrub, 3-5 m. tall, with grayish bark and puberulent branchlets ; petioles 1-3.5 cm. 

 long, puberulent ; leaves unifoliolate or sometimes digitately 2-3-foliolate, the lateral leaf- 

 lets, when present, short-petioluled or sessile, obloug-oblauceolate, elliptic, orobovate, 2.5-9 

 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, acute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, the terminal 

 leaflet somewhat longer and broader, all coriaceous, entire, pellucid-punctate, pubescent on 

 the veins beneath, glabrous, or when young with few scattered hairs above, the midrib 

 glandular, the margin often revolute in drying ; staminate flowers in short terminal panicles ; 

 disk inconspicuous or wanting ; calyx glabrous, the sepals 4 or 5, triangular ; petals 4 or 5, 

 greenish-yellow, narrowly oblanceolate, 4-5 mm. long, 1.4-2 mm. broad ; stamens 4 or 5, 

 the filaments inserted at the base of the small abortive ovary, the anthers ovate or oval ; 

 pedicels short, stout ; drupe subglobose or oval, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, 12-18 mm. broad ; seeds 

 oblong-obovate to oval, 10.5-12 mm. long, 6-8 mm. broad. 



Type locality : San Jose Pass, mountains of San Luis Potosi. 



Distribution : Mexico. 



22. GLYCOSMIS Correa, Ann. Mus. Par. 6 : 384. 1805. 

 Unarmed evergreen trees or shrubs with alternate leaves. Leaves pinnate or uni- 

 foliolate. Calyx 4-5-parted, the sepals broad, imbricate. Petals 4 or 5, free, in aestiva- 

 tion imbricate. Stamens S or 10, free, the alternate ones shorter ; filaments subulate, 

 dilated below; anthers small, often bearing a dorsal or apical gland. Disk stipitiform or 

 pillow-shaped. Ovary sessile on the disk, 2-5-celled ; style very short, thick and persis- 

 tent ; stigma simple or somewhat discoid. Ovule solitary in each cell, pendulous. Berry 

 pulpy or nearly dry, 1-3-seeded. Testa membranous; cotyledons equal ; radicle short. 

 Type species, Limonia arborea Roxb. 



1. Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) DC. Prodr. 1: 538. 1824. 



Limonia pentaphylla Retz. Obs. 5: 24. 17S9. 



Toluifera cochinchinensis Lour. Fl. Coch. 262. 1790. 



Limonia citrifolia Willd. Enutn. 448. 1809. 



Glycosmis citrifolia Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. 6 : 72. 1826. 



Glycosmis helerophylla A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cuba 231. 1842. 



Glycosmis amencana Sagot ; Oliver, Jour. Linn. Soc. 5: Suppl. 2: 37, as synonym. 1861. 



Amyris axilliflora Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 66. 1866. 



Glyi'tisiiiii ('(>< Jiiitchinensis Pierre Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 21 : 611. 1896. 



A glabrous shrub, 2-3 m. in height, or a small tree, with flattish or angled twigs ; 

 leaves 1-5-foliolate, petioled ; leaflets ovate-elliptic, ovate-lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, or 

 sometimes oblanceolate, 8-18 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad, occasionally larger, petioluled, 

 entire or crenulate, rather membranous, pale, reticulate-veined, acute to long-acuminate 

 or sometimes obtuse at the apex, more or less inequilateral and cuneate at the base ; pani- 

 cles very variable in size, thinly tomentulose with brownish hairs ; flowers small ; calyx 

 about 2 mm. broad, the sepals fringed; petals white, narrowly ovate to oval, 3-4 mm. long; 

 berry whitish or pale-pink, 7-10 mm. in diameter. 



Tyee locality : India. 



Distribution : Cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions and becoming naturalized. 

 Introduced from Asia. 



Illustrations : Bot. Mag. pi. 2416 (as Limonia parviflora) ; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 3* : /. 106. 



