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SAPOTILLA or NASEBERRY BULLY TREE. 
ACHRAS z apotilla j foribus aggregatis, foiiis ellipticis utrinque obtusis , 
floribus hexandris . 
Achras sapota. /3. ( Zapotilla ) brachiatus diffusus, fructu subrotundo , 
cicatricula mucrone breviori . Browne, Jamaic. vol. 2, p. 200. 
Anona maxima , foiiis laurinis glabris viridifuscis , fructu minimo. 
Sloane, Jam. 206. Hist. vol. 2, p. 172, tab. 169, f. 2. Ray. Dendr. 
p. 79. Catesby’s Carol, vol. 2, p. 87, t. 67. 
Sapota fructu turbinato minori. Plumier, Gener. p. 43. 
/3. # parvifolia foiiis ellipticis brevibus utrinque obtusis submar ginatis, 
fructibus majoribus. 
The small islands, or keys as they are called, at the 
southern extremity of East Florida, afford in this tree, one 
of the fine fruits of tropical America, indigenous also to 
Jamaica, St. Domingo, the straits of Panama, and some 
other of the warmer parts of the continent of South Ame- 
rica. 
According to Dr. Blodgett, it is common on Key West, 
where it becomes a tree of 30 feet in height, bearing an 
agreeable, wholesome fruit, about the size of a pigeon’s 
egg, which is larger than the small naseberry plum of 
Jamaica. When the fruit is green or first gathered, it is 
hard and filled with a milky or white juice as adhesive as 
glue, but after being gathered 2 or 3 days, it grows soft 
and juicy, the juice, being then clear as spring water, is 
very sweet. 
The fruit of the true Sapota is said to be round, bigger 
than a quince, and covered with a brownish, more or less 
grooved skin; before maturity the flesh is greenish, milky, 
