174 ORIGIN OF CULTIVATED PLANTS. 



but he does not say they were wild, and I see that 

 Triana {Prodr. Fl. Granat) only mentions it as culti- 

 vated. 



Custard Apple in the West Indies, Bullock's Heart 

 in the East Indies — Anona reticulata, Linnaeus. 



This Anona, figured in Descourtilz, Flore Medicale 

 des Antilles, ii. pi. 82, and in the Botanical Magazine^ 

 pi. 2912, is wild in Cuba, Jamaica, St. Vincent, Guade- 

 loupe, Santa Cruz, and Barbados,^ and also in the island 

 of Tobago in the Bay of Panama,^ and in the province 

 of Antioquia in New Granada.^ If it is wild in the last- 

 named localities as well as in the West Indies, its area 

 probably extends into several states of Central America 

 and of New Granada. 



Although the bullock's heart is not much esteemed 

 as a fruit, the species has been introduced into most 

 tropical colonies. Rheede and Rumphius found it in 

 plantations in Southern Asia. According to Welwitsch, 

 it has naturalized itself from cultivation in Angola, in 

 Western Africa,^ and this has also taken place in British 

 India.^ 



Chirimoya — Anona Cherimolia, Lamarck. 



The chirimoya is not so generally cultivated in the 

 colonies as the preceding species, although the fruit is 

 excellent. This is probably the reason that there is no 

 illustration of the fruit better than that of Feuill^e 

 {Ohs.y iii. pi. 17), while the flower is well represented in 

 pi. 2011 of the Botanical Magazine, under the name of 

 A. tripetala. 



In 1855, I wrote as follows, touching the origin of 

 the species : ^ "The chirimoya is mentioned by Lamarck 

 and Dunal as growing in Peru ; but Feuillee, who was 

 the first to speak of it,*^ says that it is cultivated. Mac- 



* Eicliard, Macfadyen, Grisebach, Eggers, Swartz, Maycock, 1%, 

 Barhad., p. 233. 



* Seemann, Bot. of the Herald, p. 75. 



* Triana and Plauchon, Prodr. Fl. Novo-GranaUf p. 28L 



* Oliver, Fl. Trap. Afr., i. p. 15. 



» Sir J. Hooker, Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 78. 

 « De Candolle, G^ogr. Bot. Rais., p. 863. 

 ^ Feuillee, Ohs., iii. p. 23, t. 17. 



