rather longer than the calyx. Catyx very short, the divisions rounded 
and obliquely overlapping each other by their membranous margins. 
Coroita of a rich orange; the tube about twice the length of the 
calyx; the limb of five oval convex and reyolutely spreading divisions, 
between which are placed the sterile petaloid stamens, having the 
appearance of five inner and smaller divisions of the corolla. Sra- 
MENS slightly projecting from the tube; the anthers ovate, heart- 
shaped at the base; the connectivum projecting above the cells into a 
short blunt point. Ovary terminating gradually in a style rather 
shorter than itself. Stigma small, simple. Fruit a kind of berry, 
about nine or ten lines in diameter, with a thick leathery rind, which 
becomes almost woody in drying, of an orange colour, with a few dark 
brown seeds about three lines long, lying upon a large fleshy placenta. 
Poputar AND GeoarapuicaL Notice. This genus appears to be 
confined to tropical America, and especially to the West Indies and 
Spanish Main, for it is probably owing to a garden mistake that the 
present species has been said to have been also brought from the 
Sandwich Islands. It is curious that so remarkable a mistake should 
have been made by so many authors in describing the ovarium as 
one-ovulated, and the fruit as monospermous, which induced them to 
place it in Sapotaceve instead of Myrsinacez, although Brown, in his 
Prodromus, had long since indicated its true structure and affinities. 
There are but few species, the most remarkable of which, the Jac- 
quinia armillaris, is known in the French islands by the name of 
Bracelet wood, it being the custom of the inhabitants to string its 
shining brown and yellow seeds into bracelets. The flowers of some 
species have a very sweet smell. G B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CutTureE. A stove plant, long 
since introduced into continental collections, from whence it probably 
found its way into ours, although it is said to have been received into 
the Kew collection through Mr. Menzies, from the Sandwich Islands. 
Our drawing was made from the specimen at the Kew Garden. Cut- 
tings of this interesting shrub may be struck under glass, in clean 
white sand, with bottom heat. Soil, peat and loam. 
DERIVATION OF THE Nam 
Jacoutnia, named by Linneus after et celebrated palesas botanist, the elder 
Jacquin. Macrocarpa, large-frui 
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JACQUINIA ig a Cayanilles, [cones Med v. 5, p. 55, t 
Jacquinia AvRANTIACA, Hortus Kewensis, 2nd Edit. y. 2, p. 6. etiioal Wig 
zine, t. 1639. 
