Pentadesma
(from pente, five, and desma, a bundle; the stamens are disposed in bundles of five). ORD. Guttiferae. A monotypic genus, the species being a tall, stove tree, yielding a yellow, greasy juice (whence the popular name). It succeeds best in a mixture of loam and peat, and in a strong, moist heat. Propagation is effected by ripened cuttings (with their leaves not shortened), inserted in sand, under a glass, in a moist heat.
P. butyracea (buttery). Butter-and-Tallow-tree. fl. red, large, handsome, solitary and terminal; sepals passing gradually into the petals, which are imbricate, but scarcely contorted. November. fr. an edible berry. l. opposite, coriaceous, and elegantly marked with numerous parallel veins. Tropical Africa, 1822.