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ON THE CULTURE OF VARIOUS SPECIES OF STAR-APPLE. 
The Michino Star-Apple {Chrysopliyllum Michino). — This species is stated 
by Don to be a native of Bracamoras, near Cavico and Matam. It there forms a 
tree forty or fifty feet high, with tapering, smooth, rusty-looldng hranclies. The ; 
leaves are about three inches long, thickly set upon the branches, smooth and of the ^ 
same colour on both surfaces, ohovate, and somewhat blunt. Flowers small, white, 
and produced both from the axils of the leaves, and also at the termination of the j 
young branchlets. Fruit when ripe, of a bright yellow outside, whitish and clammy j 
inside ; pulp full of juice, sweet, and with a grateful flavour. 
The Damson Star-Apple {Chrysophyllum monopyrenum). — This is the Chry- j 
sophyllum oliviforme of “Lam., Encyclop.,” v. i., p. 552; C. Cainito of “Miller’s 
Dictionary;” and C. Cainito, variety /3 of Willd,, Spec. 1, p. 1083. It is a native | 
of Jamaica, St. Domingo, Martinico, and many other parts of the tropics, growing 
in thickets, and forming a tree about thirty feet high, “ with a trunk not exceeding i 
a foot in diameter, covered with a cracked, and roughish, hut otherwise pretty even 
or equal ash-coloured bark. The head is thick, close, and bushy in the middle, 
but not of a regular-formed shape ; and the outer branches, projecting into the air 
with a certain fan-shaped regularity, have a very light and elegant appearance when 
seen from beneath, in relief against the sky. The general aspect and shape of the 
whole somewhat resembles a fine young vigorous Hawthorn tree. Terminal or 
young leaf-bearing branchlets growing out in a regular, flattened, horizontal, fan- like i 
form, as if they had been regularly trained against a wall, densely clothed with a 
coat of ferruginous adpressed hairs, which easily rub off, and ultimately disappear. 
Young leaves clothed on both sides with similar hairs, which disappear from the i 
upper surface in a short time. Petioles short, about an inch long, densely ferrugineo- 
pubescent. All parts of the tree, while young, are milky when cut or broken. 
Leaves alternate, oval, approaching to oblong, four or five inches long, and two 
broad ; shortly acuminate, sometimes retuse, entire, with simple, parallel, equi- 
distant, inconspicuous nerves above, when adult, smooth and shining; beneath, 
beautifully satiny, with pale, ferruginous, close-pressed, silky hairs ; the midrib and ' 
nerves deeper ferruginous than the rest. Before they fall, the leaves turn to a , 
beautiful deep rich red, variously marbled and mottled with yellow or white, i 
Pedicels axillary all along, and at the ends of the branchlets, and even coming out 
here and there on the older, thicker branches ; aggregated, very irregular in 
number, shorter than the petioles, round, densely ferrugineo-pubescent. Flowers ! 
very small, scentless. Buds globose, ferrugineo-pubescent. Calyx of five, or often 
six, rarely four, rounded, imbricated sepals ; the two or three outer ones densely ' 
ferrugineo-pubescent. Corolla sub-campanulate, pale greenish or yellowish-white, | 
clothed outside with shining close-pressed hairs of the same colour ; tube longer than 
the calyx ; limb in five or often six, rarely four, shallow, ovate-obtuse, patent, sub- | 
revolute lobes. Fruit a shining, purplish- black, ovate-oblong drupe, about an inch : 
long, and half-an-inch broad, narrowed, and almost pointed at the top, but other- | 
wise much resembling a Date in figure, tipped with the dry remains of the short ' 
