42 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Ang-ophora subvelutina, F. v. Mueller. 



Queensland and New South Wales. Attains a height of 100 feet. 

 The wood is light and tough, soft while green, very hard when 

 dry ; used for wheel-naves, yokes, handles and various implements ; 

 it burns well, and contains a large proportion of potash [C. Hart- 

 mann]. Dr. Bancroft lauds the Kino as particularly effective in 

 diarrhoea. 



Axiona Cherimolia, Miller.* 



Ecuador to Peru. One of the " Custard-Apples." This shrub 

 or tree might be tried in frostless forest-valleys, where humidity 

 and rich soil will prove favorable to its growth. It is hardy in 

 the mildest coast-regions of Spain, also in Chili. In Jamaica it is 

 cultivated up to nearly 5000 feet [W. Fawcett]. Grows readily 

 from seeds. It yields the Cherimoyer-fruit. The flowers are very 

 fragrant. A. muricata L. (the Sour Sop), A. squamosa L. and A. 

 sericea Dunal (the Sweet Sop) and A. reticulata (the Custard- 

 Apple), all natives of the Antilles, can probably only under excep- 

 tionally favorable conditions be grown in any extra-tropic countries, 

 though they produce fruits still in Florida, A. reticulata and A. 

 squamosa produce just outside the tropics in East-Australia still 

 heavy crops of fruit [Edgar], and may ripen also yet at Port 

 Jackson [Fred. Turner]. These two are reared in Jamaica up to 

 3500 feet" elevations [W. Fawcett]. 



Anthemis nobilis, Linne. 



The true "Chamomile." Middle and Southern Europe, Northern 

 Africa. A well-known medicinal plant, frequently also used as 

 edgings for garden-plots. Flowers in their normal state are 

 preferable for medicinal use to those in which the ray florets are 

 produced in increased numbers. They contain a peculiar volatile 

 oil and two acids, similar to angelic and valerianic acid. Hardy 

 in Norway to lat. 63 52 ; [Schuebeler]. Use of the flowers thera- 

 peutically indicated in light nervous and spasmodic affections ; 

 they act also as a diuretic, and are renowned in popular medicine 

 variously otherwise. 



Anthemis tinctoria, Linne. 



Middle and Southern Europe, Orient. An annual herb. The 

 flowers contain a yellow dye. 



Anthistiria avenacea, F. v. Mueller. (Thetneda avenacea, F. v. M.) 



Extra- tropical and Central Australia. A nutritious, perennial 

 pasture-grass. Called by Mr. Bailey " one of the most productive 

 grasses of Australia"; it produces a large amount of bottom-fodder, 

 and it has also the advantage of being a prolific seeder, while it 

 endures a hot, dry clime ; grows to a height of over 6 feet. Mr. 

 C. J. Macfarland considers it for pastoral purposes superior to the 



