Lucuma.

Botanical name: 
Pouteria

Related entry: Monesia

Lucuma.—This Brazilian genus of the fam. Sapotaceae yields a number of species, which are used in Brazil as medicines or articles of diet. For an account of them, see Ph. Rund., 1888. See also Monesia.

The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.