agree with the C. diversifolia of the same author, pubHshed in 
his Stirpes Americance, that I have no hesitation in adopting 
that specific name. The germen is, for the greater portion of 
its length, inferior, in at least this species of the genus ; and 
the fruit is described by Jacquin as a roundish drupe, about 
the size of a small cherry, umbilicated and furrowed at the 
top by the connivent segments of the calyx or perianth. This 
fruit is of a beautiful purple colour within, possessing a flavour 
similar to that of C. uvifera, but more austere, and is eaten 
only by children and the Negroes. 
The annexed delineation was taken in the month of Ja- 
nuary. 
Fig. 1. Front view of a flower. Fig. 2. Stamen. Fig. 3. Upper part of the 
Germen and Styles. Fig. 4-. Two flowers surrounded by the bractea ; 
a, Inferior portion of a germen ; b, Unexpanded stamens of the calyx. 
Fig. 5. Pistil ; the calyx and stamens being removed. — All more or less 
magnified. 
