ANONACE.E. — CAPPARIDACE2E. Asimina. 



ANONACEJE. 



9. Asimina triloba, Dunal. 



Papaw. Custard Apple. 



Western New York, Ontario, eastern and central Pennsylvania to 

 southern Michigan, southern Iowa, and eastern Kansas; south to mid- 

 dle Florida and the valley of the Sabine River, Texas. 



A small tree, sometimes 12 metres in height, with a trunk rarely 

 exceeding 0.30 metre in diameter, or often reduced to a slender shrub ; 

 rich, rather low woods, reaching its greatest development in the lower 

 Wabash valley and in the valley of the White River, Arkansas. 



Wood very light, very soft and weak, coarse-grained, spongy, layers of 

 annual growth clearly marked by several rows of large open ducts ; color 

 light yellow shaded with green, the sap-wood lighter ; the large fruit 

 sweet and edible. 



10. Anona laurifolia, Dunal. 

 Pond Apple. 



Semi-tropical Florida, — Cape Malabar to Bay Biscayne, west coast, 

 Pease Creek to the Caloosa River; in the West Indies. 



A small tree, sometimes 'J metres in height, with a trunk 0.30 metre 

 in diameter, or toward its northern limits and on the west coast often 

 reduced to a stout, wide spreading shrub; common, and reaching its 

 greatest development, within the United States, on the low islands and 

 shores of the Everglades in the neighborhood of Bay Biscayne. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, rather close-grained, compact, containing 

 many scattered open ducts ; color light brown streaked with yellow, the 

 sap-wood lighter. 



The large fruit scarcely edible. 



CAPPARIDACE^E. 



1 1 . Capparis Jamaicensis, Jacq. 



Semi-tropical Florida. — Cape Canaveral to the southern keys ; in 

 the West Indies and southward to Brazil. 



A small tree, sometimes 6 metres in height, with a trunk 0.15 metre 

 in diameter, or reduced to a low shrub; common and reaching its 

 greatest development, within the United States, on Upper Metacombe and 

 Umbrella Keys. 



Wood heavy, hard, close-grained, compact, satiny, containing many 

 evenly distributed large open ducts ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; 

 color yellow tinged with red, the sap-wood lighter. 



