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SECT. 2. Inner petals minute. Flowers pendent. 



4. Anona squamosa. Sweet- Sop. 

 Leaves lanceolate sub-glabrous minutely albido- 

 punctulated beneath, peduncles generally 2 together 

 lateral, outer petals lanceolate, inner minute, fruit 

 rounded obtusely squamose. 



Sloane, II. 168 t. 227 Browne, 256. Jacq. Obs. I. 13. t. 



6 Sicartz,Obs. 221 Gcert. Fruct. II. 193. t. 138. De Cand. 



Syst. I. 472. Prod. I. 85. Hooker, JBot. Mag. 3095. 



II AB. Cultivated; growing spontaneously in the dry plains 

 on the south side of the Island. 



FL. May September. 



A tree, about 15 feet in height, of a stunted irregular growth : 

 branches spreading; branchlets subflexuose, pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, oblongo-lanceolate, subacuminate, sub- 

 glabrous above, glaucous minutely puberulous and albidd-punc- 

 tulated beneath, 6 inches long and 1 broad : petiole terete, pu- 

 berulous. Peduncles generally 2 together, subopposite to a leaf, 

 an inch in length, terete, puberulous, thickened towards the 

 flower. Flowers pendent. Segments of the calyx short, deltoid, 

 externally sericeo-pubescent. Outer petals an inch long, lan- 

 ceolate, triquetrous, of a thick coriaceous texture, externally un- 

 der the glass velutino-pubernlous, internally at the base with a 

 purple-coloured excavation : inner petals minute, spathulate, 

 keeled on the back, thick. Fruit size of an Orange, roundish, 

 or ovoideo-cone-shaped, glaucous, of a yellowish green colour, 

 squamose : scales mamilloso-tuberculated : pulp white with a 

 tinge of yellow, very sweet. Seeds elliptic, compressed or 

 obsoletely angulated, of a chestnut colour: albumen filled with 

 numerous transverse brown lines or clefts. 



This tree was formerly considered as a native of the con- 

 tinent of South America. St Hilaire has however attempted 

 to prove that it must have been originally imported from the 

 East Indies.* In this Island, it is common in every district, 

 especially in the plains. The fruit is a great favourite with 

 the Creoles ; but I have never met with a European who was 

 partial to it. In times of scarcity, I am informed that it has 

 been taken green, and, after being boiled, employed as a sub- 

 stitute for what, in the language of the country, is called 

 bread-kind. 



5. Anona Cherimolia. Cherimoya or Cherimolia. 



Leaves oblong impunctate pubescent above tomen- 

 tuloso-velutine beneath, peduncles subopposite to 



* Pluntes UsueUes des Braziliens. Livr. VI. p. 5. 



