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3-sulcate above, pubescent. Peduncles making tlieir appear- 
ance in the axils of the leaves of the former year which have 
dropt off, subsolitary, not an inch in length, subsimple: flowers 
many, tinged with red ; on pedicels 2 lines in length, terete, 
puberulous, furnished at their insertion with 3 ovate scale-like 
bracteoles (the middle one the largest). Minute pellucid glo- 
bules on the peduncle and pedicels. Calyx small, 5-fid ; divi- 
sions bluntish, minutely ciliated. Petals 5, much longer than 
the calyx, oblong, acute, tinged with red towards the apex. 
Stamens 10, inserted on a 10-crenulated disk; filaments erect, 
subulate : anthers small, yellow. Ovary green, 5 (or fewer 
by abortion) -pointed at the apex. Drupe oval, size of the 
common Hog-plum, yellow with an orange tinge. 
The leaves of this species are shed about the month of Feb- 
ruary, leaving the tree naked. After some weeks the flowers 
make their appearance, and, as the fruit forms, they are suc- 
ceeded by the young leaves. The fruit ripens about the month 
of July. It is of a sweet taste, with more astringency than 
that of the S. ruupuitKA. It is very subject to worms, from 
insects depositing their ova in its pulp, as soon as it begins to 
ripen. Hence, it must be collected before it is half ripe, in 
order to eat it free from maggots. Were it not for this, it 
would be in some esteem as a fruit, as it is very palatable. This 
tree has a great resemblance in the mode of growth, and in the 
appearance of the leaves, to the following species. 
2. Spondias purpurea. Leather-coat or Lied 
Spanish-Plum . 
Leaves impari-pinnate, leaflets S-10-paired lanceo- 
late acuminate at both ends serrated towards the apex, 
petiole sub-3-gonal, racemes short. 
Myrobalanus minor fructu purpureo, Slocnie , II. 1*26. t. 219. 
f. 3, 4, 5. — Spondias diffusa, floribus praecocibus, jBrowne, 228. 
— S. Mombin, Gccrtn. Fnict. II. 102. ti 104. — S. Myrobalanus, 
Jacq. Amer. 139. t. 88. 
HAB. Common in the plains. 
FL. April. 
A tree, 10-15 feet in height, of irregular growth. Leaves 
impari-pinnated : leaflets subopposite, petiolulated, lanceolate, 
acute, acuminate at the base, unequilateral, serrated towards the 
apex, subentire towards the base, glabrous, obscurely pellucido- 
punctulated, nerved : petiole sub-3-gonal, 3-sulcate above, with 
the ridges as well as the petiolules puberulous. Racemes in 
the axillae of the leaves of the former year, scarcely more than 
an inch in length, subsolitary, subsimple. Calycine segments 
5, minute, coloured. Petals 5, oblong, incurved at the apex. 
Stamens 10, unequal in length (the 5 which alternate with the 
