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ANON A* laurifdlia. 



Laurel-leaved Custa?'d Apple. 



POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Anonace^. 



ANONA AdTim.^ Calyx 3-partitus 3-lobusve, lohis concavis sub- 

 cordatis acutiusculis, Petala 6, crassiuscula, interiora minora aui nulla. 

 Antherce plurimse subsessiles apice angulatee dilatatae torum obtegcntes. 

 Carpella plurima coalita in baccam unicam sessilem cortice muricato squa- 

 moso aut reticulato, intils pulposam ad ambitum multilocularem, loculis 



monospermis. Arbores aut frutices, cortice scepe reticulato glnnduloso 



aromatico ; folia integra interdilm pellucido-punctata ; pedunculi axillares 

 aut oppositifolii, scep^ solitarii, mi- aut pauciflori, interdum bracteulati.— 

 Decand. syst. 1. 466. 



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laurifolia 



pendulis, 'petalis exterioribus cordatis acutis, interionbus rotundatis, 



fructibus mammaeformibus laevibus. Dec. I. c 

 A. fructu Isevi viridi pyri inversi forma. Cateshy carol. 2. p. bl . t b/. 

 A. glabra, var. /3. Lam. diet. 2. 125, ! 



A. laurifolia. Dunal monogr. p. 65. Dec. prodr. \. Si. 



Sepala tria, ovata, acuta, persistentia. Petala cortacea, aurantiaca ; 

 tria exteriora U unciam longa, oblonga, plana, suhcordata (Estivatione 

 valvata; tria interiora breviora, subrotunda, unguiculata, cucullata,utnnque 

 maculA pallidd. Stamina indcfinita, in torum hypogynum convexum ptlosum 

 densi aggregata: antherae adnatcB, extrorh, lineares, bilocularcs, poUtms 

 granulis in utrogue loculo serie duplici coharentibus. Ovaria tndejimta, 

 densissimh aggregata et agglutinata, villosa, recta, subulata, apice stigma 

 viscidum, camosum , cylindraceum gerentia, unilocularia ; ovulum sofifanMm, 

 erectum. ' ' 



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A small tree, found wild in St. Domingo, Uatera, Andros. 

 and other islands of the Caribean Sea ; and also upon the 

 continent of America, from the most southern to the most 



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• Apparently a corr^m of merigna or manoa; names which some of 

 Aese plants bear in the Malayan archipelago. The word has no reference 



to the Latin anyioyiay provision. 



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