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socarpa have been found in any part of America, We are 
inclined to cite Anona as an instance of the greater affinity 
existing between W. Africa and E. America, than the latter 
shares with any other part of the Old World. 
6. Anona glauca, Thonn. et Schum. Beskr. p.959. Guill. e 
Perr. Fl, Seneg. 1. p. 5.—Senegambia and Cape Coast Castle, 
Brunner and Brass (in Mus. Brit.) 
A seventh species is A. chrysocarpa. Guill. et Perr. 
It is singular that the Anona reticulata (Bullock’s heart, 
of the West Indies) is nowhere mentioned as cultivated in 
"Tropical Africa; it is a far from unpalatable fruit, and very 
abundantly spread over the East and West Indies. 
The Monodora myristica, Dun. (Calabash nutmeg), does not 
exist in any of our W. African collections, but is probably a native 
of the continent of Africa. It is always quoted as an inhabitant 
of Jamaica, where, according to Me. Fadyen, (Flora of Jamaica, 
p. 12), but one tree of it exists, and where the generally-received 
opinion is, that it was introduced from the continent of South 
America. Mr. Brown, on the other hand, argues for its African 
origin, and the probability of its having been carried by the 
negroes to Jamaica. 
l. Hablitzia Æthiopica, Alph. DC. Mem. Anon, p. 31.—West 
coast of Afriea, from Senegambia to the Bight of Benin. 
It was with considerable anxiety that this, the Guinea" or 
* Malaghata pepper,” was sought for, but in vain, amongst the 
collections of the Niger Expedition, for it is a plant of which 
we know but little botanically ; though its seeds were an article 
of export for upwards of two centuries, and were once highly 
prized as a condiment, it is now never seen and seldom 
heard of, except by the curious. 
So important an article of commerce was it, that the name of 
** Grain Coast” was given to a long tract of land in the Bight of 
Benin, and the establishment of the towns of Grand Bassa and 
Cape Palmas was due to its importance. Up to the close of the 
18th century, the Guinea pepper was in great request ; when 
the still more aromatic and pungent grain of the Eastern 
