N. ORD.-ANONACE. 13 
GENUS.—ASIMINA,* ADANS. 
SEX, SYST.—POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA, 
ASIMINA TRILOBA. 
PAWPAW. 
SYN.—ASIMINA TRILOBA, DUNAL.; ASIMINA CAMPANIFLORA, SPACH.; 
ANNONA TRILOBA, LINN.; ORCHIDOCARPUM ARIETINUM, MICHX. ; 
PORCELIA TRILOBA, PERS.; UVARIA TRILOBA, TORR. AND GRAY. 
COM. NAMES.—PAWPAW, PAPAW,+ AMERICAN CUSTARD-APPLE; (FR.) 
ASIMINIER; (GER.) DREILAPPIGE ASIMINE. 
A TINCTURE OF THE RIPE SEEDS OF ASIMINA TRILOBA, DUNAL. 
Description.—This curious-fruited tree attains a height of from 10 to 30 feet, 
with about the same diameter of foliage. Bark smooth, grayish. Leaves long, 
thin, and membraneous, entire, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, and are 
covered with a rusty-hairiness upon the nether surface when first expanding, but 
soon become entirely glabrous. /#florescence solitary in the axils of the previous 
year’s leaves ; flowers dull purple, appearing with, or just before, the leaves. Sepaés 
3, ovate, much shorter than the petals. Veta/s 6, spreading, veiny, rounded-ovate, 
their upper third more or less recurved; they are arranged in two rows, the outer 
larger, all enlarging after anthesis. Stamens indefinite, arranged in a globular 
head, thus concealing the ovaries and styles. ists few, their stigmas projecting 
beyond the stamens than which they are longer. /vwz¢s 1-4, developed from each 
flower, they are oblong, rounded, pulpy, several-seeded, and resemble in shape 
the shorter red bananas. Seeds oval, horizontal, flattish-compressed, and sur- 
rounded by a fleshy aril. 
Anonacess.—This chiefly tropical order consists of d¢vees or shrubs having 
naked buds and aromatic or fetid bark. eaves alternate, entire, pinnate-veined, 
and usually punctate; stipules wanting. stivation valvular ; flowers large, dull 
colored. Sepals 3, often connected at the base. Petals 6, thick, arranged in two 
rows. Zorus rounded, hypogynous; stamens numerous OF indefinite ; filaments 
very short, sometimes just perceptible; anthers adnate, extrorse ; connectivum 
fleshy, somewhat quadrangular, often nectariferous. Pistils numerous, crowded, 
and sometimes coherent, especially in fruit; s¢y/es short or wanting ; s@gmas sim- 
ple, capitellate. Fut fleshy or pulpy; seeds anatropous, one or more in each 
Ovary; ées/a brittle ; emdryo basal, minute; a/dumen hard, ruminated. 
* Asiminier, the name applied by the French Colonists, 
+ This name more properly applies to the West Indian Carica Papaya (Papayacex). 
