“a " ANONACEE. 
thinate odour. The bark of the branches and younger stems 
is uniformly pale brown, less bitter, and more aromatic. 
Chemical composition.—The powdered bark gave 10°6. 
cent. of moisture, and left 9°7 per cent. of ash. It contained 
volatile and a fixed oil, acrid resins, tannin, giving a greeni 
. black colour with ferric salts, sugar, a bitter principle, mu 
lage, starch, calcium oxalate, &c. Search was made for al 
loids and maunite with negative results. A decoction did 
give the usual blue colour with‘iodine until a considera’ 
quantity of the reagent had been’ added, a reaction pee 
to cinnamon and cassia barks, 
" Commerce.—The oil of Michelia nilagirica which was sta 
epee Journ. Oct. 22, 1887, p. 344,) to be obtained fr 
_ this bark, was in reality “distified from the bark of Cinnam 
Wightu, a tree Ee on the = of Southern India. | 
_ANONACESE. | : 
ANONA SQUAMOSA, on 
‘Fig. —Rheede, Hort. Mal. tii., 29; Bot. Mag. 8095 ; ‘ie 
Fruct, it., t. 188. The Custard Apple tree ae ), Cacbi 
(F r.). 3 
Hiab tes America, Suiiveted | in India, The see 
leaves and bark. 
Vernacular. —Sitéphal (Hind., Mar.), Sita-pollins (Tam 
Ata, Liina (Beng.), Sita-pundu oi ), Atta (Cing. x 
‘History, Uses, &e. — The custard-apple has been : 
naturalized in India, and has received the Sanskrit 
Gandhagatra. The seeds, leaves, and immature fruit, c 
an acrid principle which is destructive to insect life ; 
are much meee me the natives fa removing lice-from 
