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10' long, greenish, with many fleshy recurved processes, the pulp white and 

 acid, much used for cooling drinks. It is commonly planted. 



Amiona squamosa L., Sugar Apple, Tropical American, has narrowly 

 oblong leaves pubescent beneath, at least when young, or nearly glabrous; the 

 fragrant flowers have 3 linear petals, greenish with a purple base within; the 

 fruit is subglobose, more or less irregular, bluntly tubercled or nearly smooth, 

 2 J '-4' in diameter, the pulp whitish and sweet and delicious. It is commonly 

 planted and appears in places as if spontaneous. 



Annona Cherimolia Mill., Cherimoya, of tropical America, occasionally 

 planted, is a small tree, up to about 15° high, with elliptic, short-pointed 

 leaves 4'-8' long, glabrous or nearly so above, pubescent beneath; the flowers 

 have 3 oblong, velvety petals, and the ovoid fruit is slightly tubercled. 



Annona reticulata L., Custard Apple, West Indian, a free up to 30° 

 high, with oblong-lanceolate leaves 5-8' long, becoming nearly smooth, the 

 flowers with 3 linear-oblong, keeled petals, the globose fruit areolated, greenish- 

 yellow, about 4' in diameter, has occasionally been planted. 



Artabotrys odoratissima (Eoxb.) R. Br., Ylang-ylaxg, East Indian, a 

 straggling or climbing shrub, with rather thin, short-petioled, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate leaves 5'-10' long, the brownish fragrant flowers about 

 8" wide, few together on curiously bent and hooked peduncles, with 3 sepals 

 and 6 petals, is occasionally grown for ornament and interest. [Uvaria odora- 

 tissima E-oxb.] 



Rollinia Sieberi A. DC, Sieber's Rollixl\, of Trinidad and continental 

 tropical America, recorded by Jones in 1873 as grown in Bermuda, is a tree 

 with oblong, entire, pinnately veined leaves 4'-6' long, the 1-seeded carpels 

 united into a syncarp. 



Family 5. RANUNCULACEAE Juss. 



Crowfoot Family. 



Herbs, or rarely climbing shrubs, with acrid sap. Leaves alternate 

 (except in Clematis and Atragene). Stipules usually none, but the base 

 of the petiole often sheathing. Pubescence, when present, composed of 

 simple hairs. Sepals 3-15, generally caducous, often petal-like, imbricate, 

 except in Clematis and Atragene. Petals about the same number (occa- 

 sionally more), or wanting. Stamens <^, hypogynous, their anthers innate. 

 Carpels ^ or rarely solitary, 1-celled, 1-many-ovuled. Ovule anatro]ious. 

 Fruit aehenes, follicles or berries. Seeds with endosperm. About 35 

 genera and 1100 species, distributed throughout the world, not abundant in 

 the tropics. 



1. RANUNCULUS [Tourn.] L. 



Herbs, with alternate simple entire lobed or divided or dissected leaves, 

 and yellow white or red flowers. Sepals mostly 5, deciduous. Petals equal in 

 number or more, conspicuous or minute, provided with a nectariferous pit and 

 a scale at the base of the blade. Carpels co, 1-ovuled. Aehenes capitate or 

 spicate, generally flattened, tipped with a minute or an elongated style. [Latin 

 for a small frog, in allusion to the marsh habitat of many species.] Some 275 

 species, widely distributed in the temperate and cool regions of both hemi- 

 spheres and on mountain tops in the tropics. Type species: Banunculus auri- 

 comus L. 



