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ANON A'' laurifolia. 

 Laurel-leaved Custard Apple. 



POLYANDRIA POLVGVNIA. 



Nat. ord. Anon ac ex. 



ANONA Adans. — Calyx 3-partitus 3-lobusve, lohis concavis sub- 

 cordatis acutiusculis. Petala 6, crassiuscula, interiora minora aut nulla. 

 AnthercB plurimae subsessiies apice angulatee dilatatse torum obtegentes. 

 Carpella plurima coalita in baccam unicam sessilem cortice muricato squa- 

 moso aut reticulato, intils pulposam ad ambitum multilocularem, loculis 



monospermis. Arbores aut frutices, cortice scBpe reticulato glanduloso 



aromatico ; folia integra interdUm pellucido-punctata ; pedunculi axillares 

 nut oppositifoliij scepe solitarii, uni- nut paucifiori, interdiim bracteolati.—^ 

 Decand. svst. 1. 466. 



A. laurifolia; foliis ovato-lanceolatis glabris, pedunculis solitariis unifloris 

 pendulis, petalis exterioribus cordatis acutis, interioribus rotundatis, 

 fructibus mammseformibus Isevibus. Dec. I. c. 

 A, fructu laevi viridi pyri inversi forma. Cateshy carol. 2. p. 67. ^ 67. 

 A. glabra, var. /3. La7n. diet. 2. 125. 

 A. laurifolia. Dunal monogr. p. 65. Dec. prodr. 1. 84. 



Sepala tria, ovata, acuta, persistentia. Petala coriacea, aurantiaca : 

 tria exteriora li unciam longa, oblonga, plana, suhcordata, (EStivatione 

 valvata; tria interiora breviora, subrotunda, unguiculata, cucullata, utrinque 

 macula pallida. Stamina indcjinita, in torum hypogynum convexum pilosum 

 dense aggregata ; antherae adnatce, extrorsoB, lineares, biloculares, pollinis 

 granulis in utroque loculo serie duplici cohcsrentibus. Ovaria indejinita, 

 densissime aggregata et agglutinata, villosa, recta, subulata, apice stigma 

 viscidum, carnosum, cylindraceum gerentia, unilocularia ; ovulum solitarium, 

 erectum. 



A small tree, found wild in St. Domingo, Ilatera, Andros, 

 and other islands of the Caribean Sea ; and also upon the 

 continent of America, from the most southern to the most 



* Apparently a corruption oi menona or manoa ; names which some of 

 these plants bear in the Malayan archipelago. The word has no reference 

 to the Latin annona, provision. 



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