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Chrysophyllum (This genus comprises about)

This genus comprises about sixty species, mostly tropical American, a few being found in Africa, tropical Asia, Australia, and the Sandwich Islands. To those described on p. 325, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. imperiale (imperial). fl. yellowish-green, fascicled at the sides of a branch as thick as the finger, pedicellate; corolla sub-rotate, five-lobed. April. fr. the size of a small apple, obtusely five-angled. l. 3ft. long, 10in. broad, petiolate, obovate-oblong or oblong-oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, deeply serrated. Brazil. (B. M. 6823.) SYN. Theophrasta imperialis (I. H. xxi. 184; R. G. 1864, 453.)