This fruit tree, of the order Sapotaceæ and a native of tropical America, has been the subject of several mistakes in works on botany.[1419] There exists no satisfactory and complete illustration of it as yet, because colonists and travellers think it is too well known to send selected specimens of it, such as may be described in herbaria. This neglect is common enough in the case of cultivated plants. The mammee is cultivated in the West Indies and in some warm regions of America. Sagot tells us it is grown in Venezuela, but not in Cayenne.[1420] I do not find that it has been transported into Africa and Asia, the Philippines[1421] excepted. This is probably due to the insipid taste of the fruit. Humboldt and Bonpland found it wild in the forests on the banks of the Orinoco.[1422] All authors mention it in the West Indies, but as cultivated or without asserting that it is wild. In Brazil it is only a garden species. +Sapodilla+—_Sapota achras_, Miller. The sapodilla is the most esteemed of the order Sapotaceæ, and one of the best of tropical fruits. “An over-ripe sapodilla,” says Descourtilz, in his _Flore des Antilles_, “is melting, and has the sweet perfumes of honey, jasmin, and lily of the valley.” There is a very good illustration in the _Botanical Magazine_, pls. 3111 and 3112, and in Tussac, _Flore des Antilles_, i. pl. 5. It has been introduced into gardens in Mauritius, the Malay Archipelago, and India, from the time of Rheede and Rumphius, but no one disputes its American origin. Several botanists have seen it wild in the forests of the Isthmus of Panama, of Campeachy,[1423] of Venezuela,[1424] and perhaps of Trinidad.[1425] In Jamaica, in the time of Sloane, it existed only in gardens.[1426] It is very doubtful that it is wild in the other West India Islands, although perhaps the seeds, scattered here and there, may have naturalized it to a certain degree. Tussac says that the young plants are not easy to rear in the plantations. +Aubergine+—_Solanum melongena_, Linnæus; _Solanum esculentum_, Dunal.