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hand, it is unknown on the continent of Asia except as a culti- 
vated plant, and there universally regarded as a colonist from 
the W. Indies. It is not, however, the less valued on account 
of its foreign origin, for we read of it as, in seasons of famine, 
proving the staff of life to the Hindoos, whilst its acrid seeds 
are used to clean vermin from the body, for which purpose they 
Je powdered and mixed with the flour of Cajana or Ervum 
ens. 
3. Anona cherimolia, Mill.; DC. Prodr. v. 1. gp. 85.—A. tri- 
petala, Ait. (Cherimolia.) —Cape de Verds and W. Africa, 
(cult.) 
A very abundant plant, and quite naturalized in the Cape de 
Verd Islands. In a dried state it is with difficulty distinguished 
from the preceding, and chiefly by the more pubescent leaves. 
This plant is an undoubted native of the New World. 
4. Anona palustris, L. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4226, (Alligator 
apple.)—Grand Bassa Cove, Vogel. 
Not alluded to by Vogel as in a state of cultivation, though 
we cannot doubt that such was the case. It is a native of the 
West Indies, and common along the Brazilian coasts. Its fruit 
is hardly edible, and certainly not palatable. Hitherto it has 
not been introduced into Asia, though it is one of the few 
Species of this genus that has flowered and ripened its fruit in 
England. 
5. Anona Senegalensis, Pers. DC. l: c. Guill. et Perr. Fl. 
P. 5. Deless., Ic. Sel. 1. p. 28, t. 86.—A. arenaria, Schum. 
et Thonn. Beskr. p. 257.—Senegambia, SierraLeone, Bight of 
Benin, Congo River, Perrottet, Afzelius, Don, Christ. Smith. 
Doubts have been thrown upon the Asiatic and even African 
Origin of any of the species of Anona, from the fact of none 
having been hitherto found in Asia, and from those épecies 
Which that continent shares with Africa being assuredly natives 
of the New World. The number of stations, however, assigned 
to A. Senegalensis, from between localities so widely apart as 
the Congo and Sierra Leone, is in favour of the genus being 
African, as is the fact that neither this nor 4. glauca and chry- 
