304. ANONA GLABRA POND APPLE. 7 



and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New. Two 

 genera only are represented in North America, one in southern Florida 

 and the \Yest Indies and the other in the eastern states. 



GENUS AXOXA LINNAEUS. 



Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire, often glandular-punctate and persistent 

 or tardily deciduous. Flowers perfect, nodding; calyx small, green and with 

 3 valvate lobes, deciduous ; petajs 6 in 2 series of 3 each, thick and fleshy, valvate, 

 hypogenous, ovate, concave, white or yellow ; stamens numerous, club-shaped, 

 crowded on the sides of the hemispheric receptacle, with short filaments and con- 

 fluent anther cells; pistils numerous, on top of the receptacle, each with one- 

 ovuled ovary and style stigmatic on inner face ; the pistils coalescing after fer- 

 tilization. Fruit compound, fleshy, subglobose or ovoid, with many i -seeded cells. 



A genus of about 50 tropical species of both hemispheres and con- 

 taining several valuable fruit-bearing species, such as the Soursop 

 (A. muricata), Sweetsop (A. squamosa), Cherimoya (A. cherimolia), 

 etc. 



The name (sometimes spelled Annona) is said to be of Malayan 

 derivation. 



304. ANONA GLABRA L. 



POND APPLE. WILD CUSTARD APPLE. 

 Ger., Flaschenbautn. Fr., Anone, Corossol. 



Sp., Corazon, Cimarron, Baga (Cuba.) , Anona (Mexico.) 



SPECIFIC CHARACTERS : Leaves oblong or ovate, 3-5 in. long, entire, mostly 

 rounded or subcordate at base, acute at apex, coriaceous, bright green above, 

 paler beneath and midrib and reticulate veins prominent; petioles about y 2 in. 

 long. Flowers opening in April from 3-angled buds, solitary axillary, calyx-lobes 

 broad ovate, pointed; petals connivent, yellowish white, those of the outer row 

 somewhat larger than those of the inner row and bearing on the inner side near 

 the base a red spot. Fruit compound, fleshy, broad ovoid, 3-5 in. long, flattened 

 or depressed at the base and rounded at apex, yellow and often blotched with 

 brown when fully ripe. It contains numerous seeds about l / 2 in. long, insipid in 

 flavor. 



A tree 30 or 40 ft. (i2m.) in height, with trunk attaining a diam- 

 eter sometimes of i l / 2 ft (o.45m.) and, as is often the case with trees 

 growing in very wet soil, commonly with wide or buttressed base. The 

 bark of trunk is of a gray-brown color, with low, rather firm longi- 

 tudinal and reticulated scaly ridges. 



