184 USEFUL PLANTS OF GUAM. 
which open by aslit down the side. Leaves 2 to 5 meters long, mostly bipinnate, with 
swollen ‘rachises; leaflets 10 to 30 em. long, 1.5 to 4 em. wide, the margin entire or 
slightly toothed. 
This species is common on many Polynesian islands. It grows in the Philippines, 
India, Japan, Madagascar, and Queensland. It is easily propagated by the fleshy 
scales at the base of each frond, each scale containing at least two dormant buds. In 
Samoa the name by which the natives distinguish it is also applied to Marattiu 
fraxinea, an allied species with the same habit of growth. 
REFERENCES: . 
Angiopteris evecta (Forst.) Hoffm. Com. Goett. 12: 29. t. 5 
Schenck & Luerssen, Mittheilungen aus der Botanik 1:25 
Polypodium evectum Forst. Prod. 81. 1786. 
874. 
Ango (Samoa). See Curcuma longa. 
Anilao (Guam), See Grewia multiflora. 
Afnilis (Guam). See Jndigofera anil and J. tinctoria. 
Anis hinojo (Philippines, Guam). See Moeniculum foeniculum. 
Annatto. See Biwa orellana. 
Annona muricata. Soursop. PLATE XXXII. 
Family Annonaceae. 
Loca NAMEs,~-Laguand (Guam); Guandbano (Philippines, Mexico, Peru). 
A small tree bearing large oblong or conical, dark green fruit having a rough spiny 
skin and filled with soft white juicy acid pulp. The leaves are elliptical, pointed, 
glossy above and rusty beneath, becoming glabrous; young growth scurfy-pufescent; 
flower with six petals, the three outer ones acute, greenish, the three inner ones more 
conspicuous, obtuse, yellow or red; pistils many, each with one erect ovule, uniting 
to form the fleshy fruit or synearpium. 
In Guam this species is not so commonly cultivated as the sugar apple (A. syuamosa). 
Tt has a pleasant acid flavor. The natives make jelly of it and preserve the fruit. 
In the Kast Indies it is used for flavoring ice cream and puddings. It is of American 
origin and was introduced into Guam at least a century ago. The vernacular name, 
laguand, is probably derived from La Guandbana, the Spanish-American name of 
the fruit. 
REFERENCES: 
Annona muricata L. Sp. Pl. 1: 536. 17538. 
Annona reticulata. BULLOCK’s HEART, CuSTARD-APPLE. 
LocaL NAMEs.—Anonas (Guam, Philippines); Corazon (Porto Rico). 
A tree of American origin, 4 to 8 meters high, bearing a smooth, heart-shaped 
fruit with small depressions on the surface, yellowish before maturity and often 
becoming a deep red at length, which gives to it its appropriate English name. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong and pointed, glabrous above and rough, at length becom- 
ing smooth beneath; flowers with the three exterior petals oblong-linear and keeled 
on the inside, acute, greenish, with purple spots at the base; inner petals minute; 
pistils many, united into the fleshy syncarpum (multiple fruit). 
In Guam this species has established itself more fully than the others of the genus. 
It is found growing wild in the woods and along roadsides. The fruit is long in 
ripening, the plant yielding but one crop a year, while ripe fruit of the sour-sop and 
sugar-apple can be found during most months of the year. The flavor of the fruit 
of Annona reticulata growing in Guam is not nearly so good as that of the other 
species. It is sweet but insipid, and the pulp has a tallow-like consistency. The 
natives do not esteem it highly, but it isa favorite food of the ‘‘fanihi,” or fruit- 
eating bat of the island (Pteropus keraudreni). 
REFERENCES: 
Annona reticulata L. Sp. Pl. 1: 587. 175A: 
