Annona triloba, 

 THE THREE-LOBED-CALYXED ANONNA. 



Synonymes. 

 Annona triloba, 

 Anona triloba, 



Asimina triloba, 

 Uvaria triloba, 



Anone a trois lobes, Asiminier de Vir- ) pj^^jj^^j. 

 ginie, j 



LiNNJEus, Species Plantarura 



De Candoli.e, Prodromus. 



MicHAux, North American Sylva. 



Don, Miller's Dictionary. 



Loudon, Arboretum Bntannicum. 



ToRREY AND Gray, Flora of North America. 



Dreylappiger Flaschenbaura, 



Annona, 



Anona, 



Asiminier, 



Papaw, 



Germany. 



Italy. 



Spain. 



French Louisiana. 



Britain and Anglo- America. 



Engravings. Blichaux, North American Sylva, pi. 60; Loudon, Arboretum Britannicum, i., figure 39; and the figuref 

 below. 



Specific Characters. Leaves oblong-obovate, acuminate ; petals dark-purple ; the exterior orbicular. 

 3 or 4 times the length of the sepals. Torrey and Gray, Flora. 



Descrijition. 



HE Annona triloba is a 

 small tree, seldom ex- 

 ceeding thirty feet in 

 height, densely cloth- 

 ed with long leaves, lying over one another, in 

 such a manner as to give a peculiarly imbricated 

 appearance to the entire plant. The trunk is 

 covered with a silver-gray bark, which is smooth 

 and finely polished. The leaves are borne on 

 short petioles, and are alternate, five or six 

 inches in length, and of an elongated form, 

 widening from the base to the summit. They 

 are of a fine texture, and the upper surface is 

 smooth and brilliant. The flowers appear in 

 South Carolina and Georgia in March, and a 

 month or six weeks later farther north. They 

 are campanulate and drooping, and put forth 

 before the leaves ; the outer petals are purple, 

 and vary in colour in different plants ; in some they are very dark, and in others 

 light, inclining to yellow. The fruit ripens in August, and is about three inches 

 long, and one and a half inches thick, yellow, ovate, oblong, irregular, and 

 swelling into inequalities. It contains a yellow pulp, of a sweet, luscious taste, 

 in the middle of which lie, in two rows, twelve seeds, or triangular stones, 

 divided by as many thin membranes. 



Geography and History. Michaux did not observe this tree north of the river 

 Schuylkill ; and it appears to be unknown, or extremely rare, in the low and 

 maritime parts of the southern states. It is not uncommon in the bottom- 

 lands which stretch along the rivers of the middle states, where, at intervals, it 



