Hedrick, U.P. editor. 1919. Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J.B Lyon Company, State Printers. [References Available]
is a plant of equatorial Africa. The fruit is globose-ovate, as large as a lemon, and not edible but is cultivated for its strong and plesant odor. it has a very fragrant, musky smell and a whitish, flaccid, insipid pulp.