proper, Anona reticulata, and of the true Papaw, Carica 

 Papaya.) " Asiminier," was the name applied to it by the 

 early French colonists of America. 



Asimina triloba was introduced into England by Peter 

 Collinson in 1736, and probably old trees of it may still 

 linger in Botanic and other Gardens. The plate here given 

 is from plants raised from seeds presented to the Royal 

 Gardens by Professor A. Gray, of Cambridge, U.S.A., which 

 were trained against a wall, and flowered in June of the 

 present year. 



Descr. A small deciduous-leaved shrub or small tree, with 

 dark brown bark and foetid wood. Leaves six to twelve 

 inches long, very membranous, shortly petioled, obovate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, slightly pubescent 

 beneath, young buds covered with shining ferruginous pu- 

 bescence, nerves slender, spreading. Flowers appearing with 

 the young leaves, but from separate buds, solitary, shortly 

 peduncled, drooping, two inches diameter, young clothed 

 with small deciduous scales ; peduncle cylindric, one inch long. 

 Sepals three, broadly ovate obtuse or orbicular, concave, de- 

 ciduous, green. Outer petals two or three times as long as the 

 sepals, twice as long as the inner, broadly ovate, spreading, 

 and recurved, obtuse, green at first and crumpled, then dull 

 brown, deeply reticulated and rugose ; inner similar, with a 

 yellowish interrupted band across the middle. Stamens in a 

 globose mass on the torus, minute, yellow. Ovaries five, green. 

 Fruit of one to three cylindric berries, two to five inches long. 

 Seeds one inch long, oblong, compressed, imbedded in a fleshy 

 aril ; testa crustaceous, shining. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower with petals removed; 2, torus and ovaries; 3, stamen; 

 4, fruit : all but f. 4 magnified. 



