PLANTS CULTIVATED FOR THEIR FRUITS. 173 



3. In the new African floras already quoted, A. 

 squamosa and the others of which I shall speak presentl}' 

 are always mentioned as cultivated species. 



4. McNab, the horticulturist, found A. squamosa in 

 the dry plains of Jamaica,^ which confirms the asser- 

 tions of previous authors. Eggers says^ that the species 

 is common in the thickets of Santa Cruz and Virgin 

 Islands. I do not find that it has been discovered wild 

 in Cuba. 



.5. On the American continent it is given as culti- 

 vated.^ However, M. Andr^ sent me a specimen from a 

 stony district in the Magdalena valley, which appears to 

 belong to this species and to be wild. The fruit is want- 

 ino-, which renders the matter doubtful. From the note on 

 the ticket, it is a delicious fruit like that of A. squa- 

 mosa. Warming * mentions the species as cultivated at 

 Lagoa Santa in Brazil. It appears, therefore, to be 

 cultivated or natuialized from cultivation in Para, 

 Guiana, and New Granada. 



In fine, it can hardly be doubted, in my opinion, 

 that its original country is America, and in especial the 

 West India Islands. 



Sour Sop A nona muricata, Linnseus. 



This fruit-tree,^ introduced into all the colonies in 

 tropical countries is wild in the West Indies ; at least, 

 its existence has been proved in the islands of Cuba, 

 St. Domingo, Jamaica, and several of the smaller 

 islands.^ It is sometimes naturalized on the continent 

 of South America near dwellings.'' Andre brought 

 specimens from the district of Cauca in New Granada, 



> Grisebach, Fl. of Brit. W. I. Isles, p. 5. 



* Eggers, Flora of St. Croix and Virgin Ides, p. 23. 



' Triana and Planchon, Prodr. Fl. Novo-Granatensis, p. 29; Sagot, 

 Journ. Soc. d'Hortic, 1872. 



* Warming, SymbolcB ad. Fl. Bras., xvi. p. 43 1. 



* Figured in Descourtilz, Fl. Med. des. Antilles, ii. pi. 87, and in 

 Tnssac, Fl. des Antilles, ii. p. 21-. 



* KichsiTd, Plantes Vasculaires de Culit,p. 29; Swartz, Ohs.,y. 221; 

 P. Brown, Jamaica, p. 255 ; Macfadyen, Fl. of Jam., p. 7 ; Eggers, Fl. 

 of St. Croix, p. 23 ; Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. T.. p. 4. 



7 Martius, Fl. Brasil, fa.sc. ii. p. 4; Split^erbcr, PI. de Surinam, in 

 Nederl. Kruidk. Arch., i. p, 226. 



