Melicocca
(from meli, honey, and kokkos, a berry; the taste of the fruit is very sweet). ORD. Sapindaceae. A genus comprising two or three species of stove trees, generally very glabrous, natives of the West Indies, Brazil, and Venezuela. Flowers regular, polygamodioecious; racemes elongated, simple or paniculately branched, many-flowered. Drupe ovoid, edible. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, abruptly pinnate; leaflets two or three-jugate, almost opposite, sessile, membranaceous. The species thrive in a compost of loam and peat. Propagated by ripened cuttings, placed in sand, under a bell glass, in heat. M. bijuga (two-paired). Honey Berry. fl. yellow; racemes terminal and axillary, simple, spike-formed. fr. as large as a bullace, jet-black, with a very sweet, pleasant taste. l. with two pairs of leaflets. h. 40ft. to 50ft. West Indies, &c., 1778.