230. 
Jan. 
od he emale” Flower has no Corolla, a | 
ween compos’d of aCup, with the Rudiment of the F ruit 
— low Top of the Style catches it. 
into a broad Rim, and. divided ey eve ve obtule + 
and Parts of Impregnation. » 
The Cup is form’d of a fingle Piece, and is 
hollow, of a cylindric Figure, furrow’d on the 
Outfide, and undivided Qt theRdge. . jj “ 
From the Rudiment of the Fruit Gontain’ d 
within the Cup, rifes a fingle and long Style, on 
which is plac’d a hollow Stigma, or Top, fo 
large and confpicuous, that TourNEFORT con- | 
fider’d it as a Flower compos’d of one Petal. 
To this is owing his Defcription of a Funnel- 
Gpndeners Dietionary. 
This great and hollow Top’ to’ whe Style, is a. 
fingular. Provifion of Nature for the Impregnation 
of the Fruit; the Male Flowers being fewer in 
Number than in many other Trees in which they 
are diftinct. Their Dutt is {eattered, and this hol-— 
‘It is fpread out 
Seoments. | 
The Male Flowers fallen, the p ruit fwells un- 
der the Female; 3 and, when ripen’d, is large, 
woody, and of a rounded but: deprefs'd Form: 
“wrought as it were with an ‘Inftrument, in twelve 
_ deep Furrows, which feparate fo many diftiné Cells.” 
Thefe fly afunder with a violent Crack when the 
Air is hot, and they are thoroughly ripe ; and each 
contains a fingle, comprefs’d, and fomewhat 
rounded Seed. | is | | 
The Student, initiated fo far into the Science 
as we have brought him in the preceding Num- 
bers, will know cae Tree belongs to the Monecious - 
Clafs, the Twenty- firft in the Linn van Syftem, 
that Tribe comprehending all thofe Plants whofe 
Male and Female Flowers are feparate, but on the sh" 
fame Individual. 
- Under this ‘Tribe the Marks which’ reba’ as 4 
Characters of the Clafs in othérs, can ‘be us’d | 
only asthe ‘Terms of a Sub- diftinction. If there 
had been Female: Parts: in this Male Flower, and | 
confequently no diftin& “Female Flowers, ‘the 
Tree would have been ‘one -of ‘the’ Mondbelpboas 
Kind, becaufe the Filaments éalefce at their’ Bot- 
toms into one Common Body. 
> This Mark, tho’ fubordinate- to the general AG 
| Yangement of the Plant, which is taken from a - 
fuperior Mark, the feparate: ‘Male ‘and “Female | 
| wrote of it. 
| «ite a Crack like a Piftol, festtering the feparated- yan. 
Parts about like Bullets. i 
This Fruit we were acquainted with in Eur Ope, 
long before we knew any thing of the Tree which 
bears it.. ee | 
Ciusivs d ferib’d and faut: it and from 
him, all, tall HERNANDEZ, copy’d. what they 
- Hernanpez’s Defcription of the Tree is imper- 
. feét, and his Figure faulty: he has agreed with C1.v- 
s1us and News attributing to five Fruit Virtues, 
_ which, upon better Authority, appear to be ime- - 
ginary. They fpeak of the Effects of it. by Vomit 
and Stool, and mention two Seeds as-a common 
- Dofe: but Sir Hans SLtoaneE, whofe Memory is 
too facred to admit Difpute of his Veracity, fays, 
he had himfelf eaten feveral of thefe Seeds, sachs 
gut the leat Eeftect of either Kind. 
SIDI ; eudeere of the Hura. 
It is to be ais’ from- Seeds, which are.eafily 
obtain’d, and grow freely. °Tis beft to have 
them from the Spanifh W eft-Indies, if an Oppor- 
tunity fhould offer of obtaining them frefh from, 
that Part of the World: if otherwife, they may be 
had. in, Plenty from Famaica and Barbadaoes, where 
the Tree ‘is cultivated by many People, and they 
will fucceed very well. 
‘For the Reception of thefe, fill two or three Pots — 
with any of the light rich Compotlts which we have 
‘directed to lie in “Readynefs for other Occafions. 
In the Beginning of March fow half a dozen 
Seeds, at regular Diftances, in each Pot, and 
cover them reat an Inch with the Compott. ; 
Give the Pots a very flight Sprinkling of Wa-' 
‘ter, and fet them up to the Rim in a Bark-Bed 
of moderate Fieat.. | | 
Draw. Mats. over the elite in cold Nights, 
Once in five Days fprinkle qn the Earth in the _ 
Pots. avery little Water ; and in the Middle. if 
every | tolerable. Day, raife the Glafles by. a notch’d 
| Stick, for about an Hour: in this Manner the 
“Seeds. will. grow regularly. When. the Plants 
are-come up, -the Glafies, muit be open’d more 
frequently, and kept up longer, obferving the 
middle Conduct between. ftarving them with ( Cold; 
and drawing . them up. too tender, 
Logt them be water’d once in three Days; and 
when they are, by this Conduct, rais’d to -fome 
Plowers, yet places it ina ‘particular Sub- divifion, Height, ‘and a little. harden’d, let as many of 
the ‘Ninth: sander this Clals, the Moncecia Monodel- 
phia. 
The Fruit, which*we: have teprefented at large 
near the Branch of this’ ‘T'ree, in our “Twentieth © 
by cutting it | 
wer where the’Stalk ‘is inferted, Ry taking’ out | 
after this, being fet on the -Bottom, | 
it holds Sand, and feemis ‘a wooden Utenfil turn’d | ) 
Plate, is prepar’d for a SandBox, 
the Seeds : 
for this Purpofe. 
'The Way to ‘keep it from burfting, ” js to 
over the Bottom with Sealing- Wa aX 5 ‘but this is 
not fecure. 
I femember at the late Duke of Richmond’s to — 
have feen one fly to Pieces, in Spite of this Security, as 
them be tranfplanted as. it is intended to keep. 
ot Fill fo many Pots with | the fame Compoft, 
and. take up one Plant for each. Leave in each 
of the original Pots one good Plant which ftands — 
near the Middle for thefe not having the Check ’ 
of a Removal, will be better than bee others. 
The reft muft be planted with great Care, and 
the Pots fet up to the Rim in a Bark-Bed; and 
} they muft be there fhaded and water'd. till they 
‘have taken Root. - : 
Here they mutt be Ae with the fame Care 
we have. directed, during Summer; and ‘at the 
End of September they prt be remoy’d into the 
Bark-Stove, and kept in the warmeft Part of , 
‘it lay on a Mantle-Piece in the Dining-Parlour, 4 watering them lightly in Winter; and in Summe 
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