By Mr. Donald Munro. 



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31. Black Sugar-loaf Pine. 

 Syn. Black Sugar-loaf. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 80. 



Copper-coloured Barbadoes. ib. No. 25. 



The fruit is of the same form as the other varieties of Sugar-loaf, the colour is darkish 

 purple, and slightly mealy before ripening ; when ripe light orange. Pips rather above 

 the middle size and flat, sometimes a little depressed in the centre, and covered to the 

 extent of one third by the scales, which end in a very short blunt point. Flesh very 

 pale lemon-colour, rather stringy, very juicy, and sweet with an agreeable pleasant acid. 

 Crown rather large, leaves few and erect. 



This is readily distinguished from all other varieties of the Pine 

 Apple, by the purple colour of its leaves, which are long and erect ; 

 it is tolerably good during summer but does not swell freely in 

 winter. 



32. Striped-leaved Sugar-loaf Pine. 

 Syn. Striped Sugar-loaf. Brook shaws Pom. Brit. t. 46. 



Prickly striped Sugar-loaf. NicoTs Gard. Kal. 4th Ed. p. 304. 

 Green-leaved with purple stripes and spines on the edges. 



Speedily, 2nd Ed. p, 10. 

 Purple Striped Queen. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 88. 

 Green Sugar-loaf. ib. No. 82. 



Green striped Sugar-loaf. ib. No. 83. 



White Sugar-loaf, -n 

 Striped-leaved, from Jamaica, 

 Bird's Eye Bahama, 

 Brown striped Sugar-loaf, J 



Flowers very pale lilac. Fruit of the same form as the other Sugar-loaves, of a clear 

 palish green colour and rather mealy ; when ripe of a bright yellow. Flesh deep yellow, 

 semi-transparent, lightly stringy, veryjuicy and sweet with a slight aroma, but without 

 Tiim'li acidity. Crown middle-sized, leaves rather numerous. 



It is readily distinguished by its broad pale green leaves, with 

 dark purple stripes ; it generally weighs from three to four pounds, 

 and is a fruit of considerable excellence. 



It has been received from Jamaica by Sir Simon Houghton 

 Clarke, Bart, under the erroneous name of Ripley. 



of some Gardens. 



