ca 
Guanazanvs fructu purpureo. Plum. ed. Burm. v. 2. p. 134. 
t. 143. f. 2. 
(8.) areolis angulatis subpentagonis. 
Annona reticulata. Jacg. Obs. v. 1. p. 14. t. 16. f. 2. 
Descr. A shrub, or small tree, from ten to fifteen feet 
high, or more, with spreading, tuberculated branches, 
tubercles brown. Leaves numerous, alternate, on short, 
channelled petioles, oblongo-lanceolate, six to eight inches 
long, submembranaceous, dark green, quite entire, penni- 
nerved, obtuse at the base, rather acuminated at the point, 
yielding like its congeners, a very disagreeable smell. Pe- 
duncles lateral branched, bearing about three flowers, and 
drooping. Pedicels swollen upwards. Calyx of three mi- 
nute, subcordate, acute leaflets. Three exterior petals 
large, linear, obtuse, broader at the base, of a greenish 
color, thick texture, and trigonous; at the base of each is 
a hollow to receive, as it were, the body of stamens and 
pistils, and there of a deep purple colour, externally paler: 
the inner side of the petals is almost white. Three interior 
tals, very minute, alternating with the outer, linear ob- 
ong, green, with red on each side near the top. Mass of 
Stamens and Pistils roundish, springing from an hemi- 
Bea torus, or fleshy receptacle. Anthers oblong; 
almost sessile, having a capitate appendage at the point. . 
Pistils minute. Germen oblong, green. Stigma. linear, 
brownish, sessile. As the fruit advances to maturity, the 
stamens fall away, and leave that part of the torus naked, 
above which the mass of pistils become enlarged, con- 
glomerated, and united into a globose, inclining to heart- 
shaped, pulpy Berry, as large as a good-sized orange, 
whitish within, externally ofa reddish-brown colour, sprink- 
led with dots of a darker colour, and marked with more oF 
less angular reticulations, whose areole are constituted by 
the enlarged and united pistils. Seeds numerous, oblong, 
compressed, dark, shining brown. Albumen horny, white, 
marked with numerous transverse lines. 
A native of the West India Islands, thence introduced 
into Malabar, and the Mal : aye © 
stoves of the alay Archipelago, and in 
Royal Garden at Hampton Court, in 169, 
It does not appear, however, ever to have produced flowers 
with us: hence I am glad to have the opportunity of repre 
senting the plant both in this state and in fruit, from dried 
specimens 
