globose

Shell globose, smooth, beneath the epidermis white with brown bands; spire elevated, tip obtuse; margin of the aperture thick, white; umbilicus none.

Shell globose, very smooth, olive; spire depressed; margin of the aperture thick, fulvous, grooved; umbilicus small, contracted, placed near the base; operculum shelly.

Trees, with alternate palmately lobed leaves, sheathing stipules, and monœcious flowers in separate globose heads.

The other is of a more globose form than the bitter sort, and has a very obtuse hinge and margin.

The fruit is of a globose fleshy berry, of the size, shape, and colour of a hen’s egg, from whence its name.