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with the petals, which are oblong with a small dilatation at the 

 base. Stamens none. Ovary ovoid, one-celled, five-lobed, bear- 

 ing five fleshy accrescent prolongations at the base, alternate 

 with the stigmas and lobes of the ovary, and opposite and cover- 

 ing the petals at the base. Placentae five, the numerous ovules 

 inserted on long funicles. Style small, accrescent, the stigmas 

 five, papillose, at first horizontal then ascending. 



Berry one-celled, ellipsoidal, with the basal appendages and 

 style accrescent, the former enclosing a basal concavity. Seeds 

 numerous, rugose after the separation of the sarcotesta. Embryo 

 straight. Cotyledons plane, the caulicle apparent and cylindrical. 

 Endosperm abundant, peripheral. Funicles spongy, filling the 

 cavity of the ovary. The fruit, when cut, exhales the odor of 

 lemon and citron. 



Flowers from June to September. The plant occurs at various 

 places in Jallisco and Guana juata. 



The difference between this and /. hctcrophylla (Mocinna 

 heterophylla Cerv. ex. La Llave) appear to me clearly specific. 



REVIEWS 



Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants* 



When, six years previous to his death in 1893, Dr. E. Lewis 

 Sturtevant, the distinguished first Director of the New York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, retired to private 

 life, he left at the Station a voluminous series of notes compris- 

 ing a compilation of then-existing knowledge concerning the 

 edible plants of the world. For twenty years this valuable manu- 

 script, the work of nearly a quarter of a century on the part of 

 Dr. Sturtevant, remained untouched. Now, thanks to the able 

 efforts of Dr. Hedrick, Sturtevant's Notes are made available in 

 what, without question, represents one of the most generally use- 

 ful reports ever issued* by a State Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. 



* Hedrick, U. P., Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Pp. vii -f 686, 

 Report New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 1919, Pt. II. Also Twenty- 

 seventh Ann. Rep. New York State Dept. Agr., Albany, Vol. 2, Part 2, 1919. 



