Annona ANNONACEiB 199 



Wild Cherimoya, 



Near Bath, Purdie\ Wilsonl Marchl Priori Sheldon Road, 2500 ft.; 

 Berwick, Blue Mts. ; Peckham, Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; Harris 1 PI. Jam. 

 6861, 11,058 ; Hampton, St. Cruz Mts., Britton, 1196. 



A small tree, 20-25 ft. high. Leaves 10-20 cm. 1., 5-9 cm. br. Petals 3, 

 11-12 mm. 1., 8 mm. br. Fruit globose, 4-5-5'5 cm. in diam. ; tubercles 

 hooked at the apex. Seeds 14-15 mm. 1., 6-7 mm. br. 



2. XYLOPIA L. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves leathery. Flowers axillary, sessile 

 or shortly stalked. Petals, the outer long and narrow, thick, 

 connivent or scarcely open, the inner included, narrower, 3-angled 

 above, slightly shorter than the outer. Stamens on the outer 

 side of the cup-shaped receptacle which encloses the carpels ; 

 connective dilated, truncate beyond the anther. Carpels 1-5, 

 distinct, with the long styles exserted ; ovules 2-6, ventral. 

 Berries somewhat oblong or ellipsoidal. Seed with scale-like aril 

 at base, sometimes hairy. Bitter Wood. African Pepper. 



Species about 100, natives of tropics in America, including 

 the West Indies, West Africa, Madagascar, Ceylon, Malaya, 

 New Caledonia. 



Leaves glabrous, elliptical, 4-7 cm. 1 1. X. glabra. 



Leaves strigose on midrib beneath, lanceolate, 7-8 cm. 1. 2. X. muricata. 

 Leaves glabrous above, sericeous beneath, lanceolate, 



9-13 cm. 1 3. X. grandiflora. 



1. X. glabra L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1367 (1763) non SyaL ed. 10, 

 1250 (1759) ; leaves elliptical, apex acute, obtuse or shortly 

 acuminate, glabrous. — Dun. Anon. 121, t. 19; Macf. Jam. i. 13; 

 Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 6. Xylopicron foliis &g. Browne Hist. 

 Jam. 251. 



White Lancewood. 



Hills near Bull Bay, Browne; Masson\ Wright \ Marchl Priori neat 

 Troy, 2000 ft., " While Lancewood " ; Peckham, Clarendon, 2500-2800 ft. ; 

 Harris! PI. Jam. 9438, 10,869, 10,943, 10,945, 11,067; Union Hill, 

 Moneague, Britton d Hollick, 2792 1 



A tree, 15-40(-60) ft. high. Leaves 4-7 cm. 1., 2-3 cm, br. Flowers 

 2-4 in a cluster, shortly stalked. Calyx about 2 mm. 1. Petals white, 

 outer about 8 mm, 1. Berries nearly 2*5 cm. 1. (incl. short stalk), about 

 •5 cm. br., narrowly oblong, with about three seeds in each. Seeds about 

 8 mm. 1. 



According to Browne, the wood, bark and berries have a warm bitter 

 agreeable taste. The wild pigeons are said to feed much upon the berries, 

 and owe to them the delicate bitterish flavour, so peculiar to them. The 

 wood is easily worked, and is considered a useful timber where it is not 

 exposed to the weather. The fruits of many species of the genus are 

 used as aromatics and condiments. 



Linnaeus founded his X. glabra Syst. ed. 10 on Pluk. Phyt. t. 238 

 (errore 234), f. 4, the original of which in Herb. Sloane xcviii. 177 is 

 however a specimen of Anona sqtiamosa L. X. glabra L. must therefore 



