Hooker's Icones Plantarum Volume 27 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... basi cohserentibus. Drupeol apice tantum liber; semina magnitudine ac forma variabilis, testa glabra l vi.--Castilloa no. 4, Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. series 2, ii. p. 212, t. 28, ff. 7-9; W.B.H. in Kew Bull. 1898, p. 141. British Honduras: Belize Estates Company, fruits only, received May, 1885; R. W. Cater, imperfect leaves, received April, 1896. Costa Rica: Quebrada de Potrero Grande, H. Pittier. In consequence of the misapplication of the native name tumi or toonu in Morris's British Honduras, p. 74, and the absence of adequate specimens, this species was formerly confused at Kew with Castilloa elastica, Cerv. This mistake was rectified in the Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 141; and now, through the courtesy of Prof. E. Bureau, and Messrs. Godefroy-Lebeuf and Jules and Eugene Poisson, we are able to figure C. Tunu, Hemsl. almost fully (young female flowers alone being wanted to complete the material) from specimens SERIES IV. VOL. VII. PART III. N collected by M. H. Pittier. As long ago as 1885 Sir Joseph D. Hooker published a good figure of the fruit of C. Tunu, in the place cited above, but he gave it no name. In an article on trees that yield caoutchouc (Boletin de Agricultura, etc., ano 8 (1899) num. 12, p. 6), M. Pittier alludes to this species as el hule macho, or mule caoutchouc, 'which yields rubber in abundance and of excellent quality.' M. J. Poisson, to whom we communicated the name we proposed giving to this species, published (Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1900, and in the Revue des Cultures Coloniales, vi. (1900) p. 302) some further particulars of this tree. But, as pointed out in the Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 141, Mr. Rowland W. Cater was the first to furnish Kew with satisfactory evidence of C. ...