20 DR. B. SEEMANN ON THE CRESCENTIACE^. 



Crescentia palustris, Forsyth Herb. 



Nomina vernacula : in Isthmo Panamensi, teste Seemann, " Calabaza de playa ;" in Venezuela, teste 



Birschel, " Coco de mono" dicitur. 

 Geogr. Dish: Jamaica {Swartz \ in Herb. Willd. n. 11486, W. Wright \ Purdie\ Distinl) ; St. Vincent 



{Anderson !) ; Cuba {Ed. Otto !) ; St. Tiiomas {Morits ! 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. Crescentia macrophylla ; arborea ; glaberrima, foliis alternis solitariis omnibus 



simplicibus obovato-lanceolatis breviter acuminatis, basin versus longe cuneatis, 

 nervo (medio) utrinque acuto, petiolis basi valcle incrassatis, corolla (virescente) sub- 

 campanulata, tubo elongato curvato ventricoso, limbo subregulari fimbriato-laciniato, 

 lamellis stigmatis fijnbriatis, fructu elliptico utrinque rostrato cortiee liguoso duro. 

 (v. sp. s. et V. cult.) 



Crescentia macrophylla, Seem, in Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. vi. p. 274 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4822. 



Crescentia regia, Hort. 



Ferdinanda superha, 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 

 pvirpUsh. 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. 3Iartynia proboscidect ; 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. cuciirbitina, 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 purpurea ei flavo variegata. 



3. Crescentia Cujete ; 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, 

 cortiee bgnoso duro. (v. sp. v. et cult.) 

 Crescentia Cujete, Linn. Spec. 872; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 246; Seem, in Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. 



vi. p. 275; Swartz, Obs. p. 234; Lam. Diet. i. p. 557; Jacq. Amer. p. 175, t. Ill; Hook. Bot. 



Mag. t. 3430 ; Veil. Fl. Flum. vi. t. 103 ; Plum, et Burm. t. 109. fig. infer. ; Com. Hort. i. t. 71 ; 



Tussac, Fl. des Ant. ii. 80, t. 19. 

 Crescentia cuneifolia, Gardn. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. ii. p. 422; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 246, 

 Crescentia acuminata, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Amer. iii. p. 157; DeCand. Prodr. ix. p. 246. 

 Crescentia angustifolia, Willd. Herb. n. 11485. 

 Nomina vernacula: in Cuba, teste E. Otto, "Guido;" in Colon. Brit. Indiaj Occident., "Calabash-tree;" 



in America Hispana, teste Humboldt, Bonpland et Seemann, "Tutumo," "Turtumo," "Palo de 



Turtuma," "Palo de Tutuma" vel " Calabazo" vocatur. 



