AN ON ACEiE. 
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A. maxima, Sloane, Jam. II. 167. t. 226. — A. reticulata, De 
Cand. Syst. I. 473. — Prod. I. 85. — Hooker, Hot. Mag. 2911 
and 2912. 
HAB. Port-Royal mountains. St Thomas in the East. 
Not uncommon. 
FL. June. 
A tree 15 — 20 feet in height : branches spreading, virgate, 
subflexuose, towards their extremities albido-papillose, and 
appresso-pubescent. Leaves 6 — 8 inches long, nerved, some- 
what rugulose, obtuse at the base, to the glass minutely puberu- 
lous especially the under surface of the nerves. Peduncles 
lateral, branched, bearing about 3 pedicelled flowers. ’Flowers 
pendent. Sepals minute, subcordate, acute. Outer petals large, 
linear, obtuse, greenish, thick, 3-quetrous, excavated and stained 
with purple internally at the base : inner petals minute, lineari- 
oblong, green, stained with red near the apex. Fruit rather 
larger than a full-sized orange, of a brownish colour with dots 
of a darker shade, marked with angular reticulations whoso 
areolaj are constituted by the enlarged and united pistils : pulp 
yellowish-white : seed numerous, oblong, compressed, of a dark 
shining brown colour: albumen horny, marked with numerous 
transverse lines. 
This would be a very excellent fruit were it not that it is rather 
too luscious to the taste. It is very common in the plain of 
Liguanea ; the fruit however is seldom brought to market. It is 
said to be a remedy for diarrhoea and dysentery. I suspect how- 
ever that it can only pretend to this character from being light 
and easily digested. The French colonists give it the name 
of CasuB de Bceuf, Ox lieart ; to which in shape it bears some 
resemblance. 
For a full description, and for an accurate figure, the reader 
is referred to Vol. III. of the New Series of the Botanical 
Magazine. 
II. Monodora. 
Calycine sepals 3, united at the base. Petals 6, 
united at the base ; 3 exterior, oblongo-lanceolate, 
undulato-crisped ; 3 interior, cordifonn, connivent. 
Anthers numerous sessile, surrounding the base of 
the ovary. Ovary single : stigma sessile. Berry 
smooth, subglobose, 1 -celled: seeds oo, imbedded in 
pulp. 
A genus first established by I^unal. — Name, from ,aovo; one, 
and dwgov a gift, in allusion to its solitary fruit. 
1. Monodora Myristica. Calabash- Nutmeg. 
