MOUNTAIN PLUM. 
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Key West in Florida, where it was found by Dr. Blod- 
gett, and is also met with in the neighbourhood of 
Carthagena, in Hispaniola, and many years ago it was 
collected in the interior of East Florida by John Bar- 
tram, as Mr. A. Gray saw specimens of it in his collec- 
tion still extant. According to Drs. Wight and Rox- 
burgh it is also indigenous to the coast of India. 
It bears a drupe the size of the Plum of Europe, or of 
a pigeon’s egg, yellow, smooth, and shining, 1-seeded, 
with a thin rind and watery pulp of a pleasant sweet 
subacid taste. The seed is large and white. This 
Plum is of an agreeable flavour, and not inferior to the 
common varieties of that of Europe; it has a slight 
degree of astringency with a pleasant acidity. The 
flowers have a fragrant odour said to be like that of 
frankincense. The wood is as yellow as that of the San- 
dal, and, in India, its powder is often substituted for it 
by the Brahmins in their religious ceremonies. 
The leaves grow 2 or 3 together, on short, lateral, 
tuberculoid branchlets; they are petiolate, oblong-lance- 
olate, obtuse and narrowed below, smooth, obscurely 
veined, about 2 or 2J inches long, and less than an inch 
broad. The flowers are disposed in small pedunculated 
axillary and subterminal umbels, the umbels 3 or dr- 
flowered. The calyx is minute and 4-toothed. Petals 4, 
linear-oblong, conniving into a tube below, recurved at 
the apex, and covered with rather long and dense 
brownish-yellow hairs within. Stamens 8, as long as 
the petals, the filaments like the most delicate threads, 
the anthers long and linear, ovary 8-angled at the base, 
conical and subulate, with the style as long as the sta- 
mens. 
Plate XXXVI. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The fruit. 
