ANONACEA:. 7 



Browne, Jam. 254. Sloane, Jam. II. 166. t. 225. Swartz, 

 Obs. 220. De Cand. Syst. I. 467. 



HAB. Common every where. 



FL. April August. 



A tree, seldom more than 15 feet in height, with suberect 

 branches : branchlets ferruginous, rimuloso-verrucose, glabrous. 

 Leaves oblong, sub-obovate, acuminate, glabrous, shining and 

 deep green above, minutely puberulous albido-punctulated and 

 paler beneath, 6 inches long and l|ths broad: petiole short, 

 terete. Peduncles in the axilla of a leaf which has fallen off, 

 or arising from naked portions of the stem or branches, either 

 solitary, or two or three together, thick, 1-flowered. Flowers 

 large. Calycine segments short, deltoid, thickish. Petals ; the 

 3 outer ones ovate, sub-cordate, concave, coriaceous, externally 

 yellow : the 3 inner somewhat smaller, orbiculate rounded and 

 obtusely apiculate below the apex, concave. Torus hemisphe- 

 rical, puberulous. Anthers subsessile; locules 2; pollenary 

 globules arranged in two rows, connected together in a bead- 

 like manner. Ovaries linear, angulose, sericeo-pubescent : stig- 

 mata sessile, linear, angular, glabrous, accrete to one another, 

 deciduous. Fruit size of a Shaddock, ovoideo-cone-shaped, in- 

 curved at the apex, green, glabrous, muricated ; spinules ovato- 

 subulate, acute, recurved : pulp white: seeds oblong, compressed, 

 black. 



This is a very common tree in all parts of the Island. .The 

 fruit is gratefully acid, and may be eaten plain, or mixed with 

 sugar and water, to which wine and nutmeg are sometimes added. 

 Horses, cows, hogs, and indeed every description of stock are- 

 fond of it. The flowers have a grateful but somewhat heavy 

 odour. The smell of the leaves is rather disagreeable, and has 

 some resemblance to that of the leaves of the Currant. The 

 wood is said to be hard. 



2. Anona montana. Mountain or Wild Sour- Sop. 



Leaves oblong acuminate at both ends glabrous 

 and shining above with the axils of the nerves ex- 

 cavated and ciliated beneath, peduncle opposite to a 

 leaf twice the length of the petiole, outer petals 

 rotundo-ovate acuminate, inner orbiculate obtuse, fruit 

 subglobose muricated with the spinules straight. 



A. muricata, Var. /3. Dunal ? 



HAB. Orchard, Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. May October. 



A lowly tree, branches terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, oblong, .acuminate at both ends, nerved, with the axils 

 of the nerves beneath excavated and ciliated, reticulato- venose, 

 subcoriaceous, glabrous, shining above, about 5 inches in length, 





