X IMENI A,t 
(Plumier.) 
Natural Order , Olacineje. Linnsean Classification , 
OcTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
Calyx 4-toothed, minute, persistent, not enlarging. Petals 4, 
densely pilose within, connivent, above revolute. Stamens 8, 
the filaments capillary, anthers adnate, long and linear, not 
exserted. Ovary 4-celled, 4-seeded. Style 1 . Drupe ovate, 
1-seeded. — D ec and. 1 . p. 533. 
Tropical trees or shrubs, with smooth, alternate, entire, ellip- 
tical or ovate, exstipulate leaves; flowers mostly in small axillary 
umbels. 
MOUNTAIN PLUM. 
XXMENIA Americana, spinosa , foliis oblongis , pedunculis 
multi floris . — Linn. Sp. PL Hort. Cliff. 1193. Swartz, Obs. p. 
149. Decand. Prod., vol. 1. p. 533. 
^ ovata , foliis ovatis. X multiflora, Jacquin, Amer. p. 106. t. 
277. fig. 31. Lamarck, Illust. tab. 297. fig. 1. 
Ximenia montana . Macfadyen, Flora of Jamaica, p. 121, a 
variety, however, without thorns. 
Ximenia aculeata , flore villoso , fructu luteo . Plumier, 
Gener. p. 6. Ic. 261. fig. 1. 
This plant forms a small tree with an erect stem and 
spreading, grey, verrucose and somewhat angular 
branches. It is indigenous to the mountains of Jamaica, 
t Named in honour of Francis Ximenes, a Spanish naturalist 
and missionary. 
