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companied Sir Francis Drake, during his celebrated circumnavigation, 
inthe year 1578. Returning in 1579, he brought home some of the 
bark, which Clusius named after him Winteranus cortex. 
Drimys Granatensis, L. fil. Bark. Venezuela and New Granada 
(Mr. Waagner) In Brazil called Casca d'4futa. Apparently only a 
variety of Winter’s bark, extending into the tropics of South America, 
and possessing the same properties. 
Star-Anise. Illicium anisatum, Z. Fruit. Japan and Cochin-China. 
Anisum stellatum of the shops. Aromatic and carminative. The oil is 
often substituted for that of common Anise. Used in the fabrication 
of liqueurs. 
Ord. ANONACEJ. CusTARD-APPLE FAMILY. 
Mostly tropical trees and shrubs. The fruits of many are esculent, 
and much prized; properties aromatic. The Zancewood is said to be 
the Duguetia Quitarensis of Schomburgk. 
Soursop, or Rough Custard-apple. Anona muricata, L. Fruit. West 
Indies and South America (Mr. N. Wilson). The fruit, as large as a 
Shaddock, is readily known from the other kinds of Custard-apple by 
being muricated with soft prickles. It is much eaten, often mixed with 
sugar, and wine and nutmeg, and possesses a grateful acid. Cultivated 
in Western Africa, whence a necklace, formed of the seeds of this fruit, 
has been brought to the Museum by Dr. W. Mackenzie Skues. 
Sweetsop, or Scaly-fruited Custard-Apple. Anona squamosa, Z. Na- 
tive, it would appear, of the Malay Islands, but abundantly cultivated 
in the East and West Indies (Hort. Soc. and Dr. Rattan). A good 
figure of it is given in the ‘Botanical Magazine, tab. 3095. Fruit 
warted, as it were, with large, convex, adnate scales. It has a sweet 
flavour, and is much esteemed at table by some, spoken lightly of by 
others. The Creoles are exceedingly fond of it, but Dr. M‘Fadyen 
says he never knew a European who was partial to it.—(We do not 
possess the Cherimoya or Cherimolia of Peru, Anona Cherimolia, Lam., 
A. tripetala of Aiton. It seems to be cultivated only in Peru, and, 
judging from the figure of Feuillée, Per. vol. iii. p. 17, it must be very 
nearly allied to 4. sguamosa. The fruit is, like it, scaly, and, as just 
E observed of that species, is excessively prized by the Creoles, and vaunted ; 
as the most delicious in the world; Father Feuillée remarks, and pro- 
bably other Europeans would agree with him, “il est certain qu'une de 
