Pourouma
(the native name in Guiana). ORD. Urticaceae. Of this genus of trees, about thirty species have been enumerated, natives of tropical South America. Flowers dioecious, numerously disposed, the males in glomerules or cymose-paniculate heads, the females in cymes; peduncles axillary, solitary or twin. Mature fruit distinct, erect, much larger than in allied genera. Leaves alternate, long-stalked, undivided or sometimes on the same tree palmately three to five-fid or parted; stipules large, very caducous. P. edulis, the only species which calls for mention here, requires culture similar to Artocarpus (which see).
P. edulis (edible). fr. in clusters, of the form and taste of Hazel nuts (much esteemed by the natives of Columbia). l. green above, bluish-white beneath, as large as those of Wigandia imperialis. Cold regions of Columbian Cordilleras, 1873. Greenhouse.