. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Black Calabash ^Zl The name is in commemoration of Pietro de Crescenzi (i233-1320), an Italian agricultural author. The 2 species found in our area are: Leaves oblanceolate to spatulate; fruit over 12 cm. long, shell very hard. i. C. Cujete. Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong; fruit under 12 cm. long, shell not very hard. 2. C. latijolia. I. CALABASH TREE — Crescentia Cujete Linnaeus This interesting tree is occasionally met
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Black Calabash ^Zl The name is in commemoration of Pietro de Crescenzi (i233-1320), an Italian agricultural author. The 2 species found in our area are: Leaves oblanceolate to spatulate; fruit over 12 cm. long, shell very hard. i. C. Cujete. Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong; fruit under 12 cm. long, shell not very hard. 2. C. latijolia. I. CALABASH TREE — Crescentia Cujete Linnaeus This interesting tree is occasionally met with in sandy soil on the Florida Keys; it is a native of the West Indies and is also planted in all tropical American countries. Its maximum height is 10 meters, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm. The branches are long, wand-like and httle divided, forming a very open, irregu- lar head. The bark is about 6 mm. thick, close and silvery gray. The twigs are stout, somewhat angular, light green be- coming silvery or creamy white. The leaves are evergreen, leathery, clustered at the ends of the twigs, spatulate or oblanceolate, to dm. long, rounded and abruptly taper-pointed at the apex, gradually nar- rowed to the short, stout, winged leaf-stalk, sometimes slightly wavy-margined, bright green above, paler and smooth with promi- nent veins beneath. The flowers are on short, stout pedicels; the calyx is thick and broad, 2 to cm. long, its lobes blunt, a little longer than broad; the corolla is yellowish marked with purple, short-tubular, 5 to 6 cm. long, the lobes crisp, usually sharp-pointed and much shorter than the tube; the fruit is subglobose or oval, to 3 dm. in diameter, the rind very hard, its pulp thicl^ and filled with many seeds. The wood is rather soft, close-grained and flexible; it is sparingly used for saddles, chairs and other furniture. The juice of the unripe fruit is used as a purgative; the pulp of the ripe fruit is made into poultices and is also
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