soch HOttTUS JAMATCENSIS. 171 



diameter; segments wide, very bluntly waved, crenulate at the edge, almost equa<f, 

 the upper ones being scarcely larger. Filaments inserted into the base of the tube, yel- 

 low ; anthers large, ferruginous ; germ smooth ; style ascending at the top and yellow ; 

 lobes of the stigma roundish, green; very often the size of a hen's egg, but thicker 

 fcelow, acuminate with the permanent base of the style, smooth, and even, white, 

 pulpy, and red within ; seeds black. The very handsome sweet flowers appear in the 

 months of January and February ; the fruit ripens in August, and is of a sweet sub- 

 acid flavour. Native of Jamaica, on very large trees, or in the fissures of rocks, scan- 

 dent, and sub-parasitical, and is known there by the name of peach-coloured trumpet- 

 flower. Swartz. The following curious circumstance is related in Dr. Smith's Intro- 

 duction to Botany : " The solandra grandiflora, a Jamaica shrub, was for a number of 

 years cultivated in the English stoves, and propagated extensively by cuttings, each] 

 -plant growing many feet in length every season, from abundance of moisture and nou- 

 rishment, without shewing any sign of fructification At length a pot of the solandra 

 was accidentally left without water in the dry stove at Kevv ; and, in consequence of this, 

 unintentional neglect, the luxuriant growth of its branches was greatly checked, and a 

 flower came forth at the extremity of each. By a similar mode of treatment the same 

 effect has been frequently produced. 



SoitrcEi., CLtMftfere See Climbing Sorrel. 

 Sorrel, India - See Indian Sorrel. 

 Sorrel Rose See Rose, Wild. 

 Sorrel, Switch See Switch Sorrel. 

 Sorrel Vine See Vine-Sorrel, 

 Sorrel, Wood See Wood-Sorrel. 

 Sour Grass See Mountain Grass. 



SOUR AND SWEET SOPS. ANNONA. 



Cl. 13, or. 7. Polyandr ia poli/gynia. Nat. or. Ccadunatx. 



<5en. Char. See Alligator Apple, v. 1, page 11. 



1 MURICATA. ROUGH. 



Annona maxima, toliis latis splendentibus fructu maximo virit/i co* 

 nnide, tuberculin sen spiny/is innocentibusaspr.ro. Sloane, v. 2, p. 

 166, t. 225. Foliis oblongo ovatis nitidis, fructibus spinis mollibus 

 tumentibus obsitis. Browne, p. 255. 



Leaves oval -lanceolate, smooth, acute ; fruits muricate ; petals ovate, the in- 

 terior ones obtuse, shorter. 



The sour sop is a middle sized tree, rarely above twelve or fourteen feet high, ur a t 

 most twenty. Trunk upright, with stiff, round, smooth, branches, and a brownish 

 ash- coloured bark. Leaves petioled, alternate, sparse, oblong, acuminate, entire, 

 shining, firm, stiffish ; petioles short. Peduncles axillary, solitary, thick, longer thaa 

 the petioles, one-flowered. Flowers coriaceous, yellow. Calyx one-leafed, triangular- 

 [ corolla tliree-petaled, petals acuminate, thick, concave, coriaceous, smooth, scabrous 

 on the outside, pale green. Nectary three-leaved, leaflets alternate with the petals, 



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