Tab. 5854 

 ASIMINA TRILOBA. 



North American Papaw or Custard Apple. 



Nat. Ord. Anonace^. — Polyandria Polygynia. 



Gen. Char. — >Sepala 3, ovata, valvata. Petala 6, biseriatim valvata, mox 

 aperta et producta, sub&qualia v. interiora minora. Stamina oo, lineari- 

 cuneata, connectivo ultra loculog dorsales discretos pulvinato-dilatato. 

 Torus subglobosug. Carpella 3-15, stylo oblongo intus stigmatoso, ovulis oo 

 biserialibus. Baccm oblongae, crassae, inter semina haud conatricta?. 

 Semina arillo membranaceo-succoso inclusa. — Frutices v. arbores parvce, 

 America? borealis incolce. Folia decidua, pennivenia. Flores laterales v. 

 axillares, solitarii, breviter pedunculati, nutantes. Fructus magnus. 



Asimina triloba ; foliis membranaceis obovato-oblongis lanceolatisve abrupte 

 acuminatis, junioribus ferrugineo-tomentosis cito glabratis, floribus 

 cum foliis coetaneia solitariis subsessilibus, petalis ovato-rotundatis 

 luride purpureis venoais, exterioribus sepalis bis terve superantibus, 

 carpellis maturis breviter cylindricis. 



Asimina triloba, DunaL Anonac. p. 83. DC. Syst. Veg. vol. i. p. 479.— 

 Prod. vol. i. p. 87. A. Gray, III. Gen. N. Am. PL vol. i. p. 67, t. 26 

 and 27. 



Uvaria triloba. Tor. and Gr. FL N. Am. vol. i. p. 45. 



Okchidocarpa arietinum, Mich. FL i. p. 329. 



Anona triloba, Linn. Sp. PL p. 578. Schkuhr, Handb. vol. i. p. 95, t 149. 



Michaux, Arb. Amer. vol. v. p. 161, t. 9. Poit. and Turp. Arbr. 



Fruit, p. 54. 



A very curious plant, and rare in cultivation, a native of 

 the banks of streams in the Middle, Southern, and Western 

 States of 1ST. America, where it forms a small tree, fifteen to 

 thirty feet high, flowering in March and April; and bearing 

 in Autumn a yellow, fragrant, fleshy, eatable fruit called 

 both " Custard Apple/' and "Papaw" in the States, (though 

 equally widely different from the fruit of the Custard Apple 



AUGUST 1st, 1870. 



