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PERSEA, Enneandria Monogynia. 



2. P Gratissima, Spr. syst. 2, p 268 ; Lauriis persea, Willd. 

 sp. 2, p 480 ; Pluk. Aim. t. 267, /. 1 ; Sloanes Jam. 2, t. 222, /. 

 2. — The Alligator or Avocado Pear of the West Indies. The fruit 

 is of the size and shape of a large pear, and is esteemed in the 

 West Indies ; grows in gardens at Belgaum, but the specimens of 

 the fruit as seen by us are by no means delicate. 



LXXIX.-MYRISTICE^, Sweet. Hort. Brit, p 345. 



THE NUTMEG TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 23. 



1. Mybistica, Dioecia Monad elphia. Native of the Eastern 

 Islands ; is said to have been successfully cultivated at Sion and 

 Poway. Away from the sea air the tree immediately languishes. 



2. Laueus Camphora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2, p 304. — In the first 

 edition of this work it is stated that the Laurus camphora tree had 

 been introduced by the late Mr. Nimmo. We have, however, 

 been unable to trace it : information on the subject is solicited. 



LXXX.—ARISTO LOCHIA, Brown's Prod, p 349. 

 THE BIRTH-WORT TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 72. 



ARISTOLOCHIA, Gynandria Hexandria. Of this family we 

 can only as yet reckon as introduced one of the several very orna- 

 mental species found in tropical America. Some of these have 

 flowers so large that they are used as coverings for the head, for 

 which their coal-scuttle-like shape well adapts them. Ours is — ■ 



1. A RiNGENS. — An extensive climber, with round, deeply cor- 

 date, leaves, and large 4-inch flowers of the lasual yellow, mottled 

 with purple. The plant has not seeded ; it does not possess any of 

 the bitterness of two of our Indian species — A indica and A brac- 

 teata, therefore we infer that it has none of the medicinal virtues 

 which both of these are known to possess ; the powdered seeds of 

 A bracteata being in particular a powerful remedy in intermittent 

 fever. For A ringens we are indebted, as in many other instances, 

 to the kindness of J. S. Law, Esq., C.S. To this gentleman, as 

 well as the late Colonel G. R. Jervis, we owe many valuable 

 exotics to the garden. 



LXXXL— EUPHORBIACEiE, Sw. Hort. Brit, p 355. 

 THE EUPHORBIUM TRIBE, Lind. Nat. Syst. p 102. 



EUPHORBIA, Dodecandria Trigynia. Named after JEuphor- 

 bus, Physician to Juba, King of Mauritiana. 



