Anona. 



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2. ANONA, Linn. 



Flowers bisexual. Sepals 3, small, valvate. Petals 3 or 6. Stamens 

 indefinite, crowded round a hemispherical torus, top of connective ovoid, 

 overtopping the cells. Carpels united into a large fleshy fruit, with 

 numerous seeds embedded in a soft pulp. 



1. A. squamosa, Linn. ; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 78 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3095. 

 Custard-apple (Sweet-sop or Sugar-apple in America). Vern. Ata, 

 Bengal ; Sharif a, behli, North- West ; Sit a phal, Bandelkhand. 



Leaves petiolate, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, glaucous be- 

 neath, pellucid-dotted, with a peculiar heavy smell. Flowers solitary or 

 in pairs, on pedicels as long as the flower, inserted on short, leafless, ter- 

 minal or extra-axillary branchlets. Sepals triangular, acute, united at base. 

 Petals, 3 exterior an inch long, lanceolate, triquetrous, thick and fleshy \ 

 3 interior minute or wanting. Fruit large, from 2 to 4 inches across, 

 yellowish green, embossed with prominent oblong, obtuse, adnate scales, 

 filled with as many pulpy cells as there are united carpels, some abor- 

 tive, the rest one-seeded, all radiating from the central conical torus, 

 from which, when ripe, the pulp readily separates. Seeds oblong, deep 

 brownish black, with a pale swelling at the hilum. 



Indigenous in the West Indies, but completely domesticated over a great 

 part of India ; cultivated as far north as Gurdaspur in the Panjab. Almost 

 wild in Central Provinces and Bandelkhand (near old forts), and in swamps 

 near Burmdeo in the Kamaon Bhabar. 



A shrub or small tree with an erect short trunk. Nearly evergreen in the 

 Panjab ; the new leaves appear about March. Flowers in the hot season ; the 

 fruit ripening from July to Oct. Chiefly valued for its fruit ; seeds acrid, 

 fatal to insects. 



Other species cultivated in India : Anona muricata, L. ; Sour-sop ; Anona 

 reticulata, L. \ Bullock! s-heart or Custard-apple of the West Indies. 



3. MILIUSA, Leschenault. 



Flowers bisexual or dioecious. Sepals 3, small. Petals 6, 3 outer 

 minute, conform to the sepals, 3 inner much larger ; aestivation valvate. 

 Stamens loosely imbricated on a cylindrical torus ; anthers extrorse, dis- 

 tinct, attached to a thick connective which scarcely overtops the cells. 

 Ovaries numerous, style oblong ; ovules one or two, rarely more. 



1. M. velutina, H. f. & Th. Tab. II Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 37; 



Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 87; Hook. Fl. Ind. i. 87. Syn. Uvaria villosa, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 664. Vern. Gidar-rukh, gwlya, god-sal, dom-sal, 

 N.W.P. ; Bari Kdri, Kajrauta, Kharrei, Oudh; Kdri, C.P. ; Thabutgyi, 

 Burm. 



Young branches, leaves, and flowers densely tomentose. Leaves on 

 short petioles, ovate or oblong with cordate base, softly tomentose or pu- 

 bescent on both sides, softly ciliate, 3 to 6 inches long. Flowers greenish 

 yellow, on slender pedicels 2-4 in. long, in lax 3- to 6-flowered racemes on 

 peduncles J-l in. long. Sepals and 3 outer petals small, ovate ; 3 inner 

 petals three times their length, broad-ovate, outside densely tomentose, 



