62 ANOXACEJ:. Anona. 



Order III. ANONACE^. 



By a. Gray. 



Trees or shrubs ; with herbage as of the preceding order, but no stipules ; the 

 flowers all hermaphrodite and equally 3-merous (by occasional variation 4—5- 

 nierous) and hypogyuous; a calyx of 3 sepals valvate in the bud, corolla of 

 6 petals iu two unlike series ; indefinitel}^ numerous stamens imbricated on an 

 enlarged receptacle, their anthers extrorsely adnate and longer than the fila- 

 ments ; carpels either distinct or when imbricated on a prolongation of the 

 receptacle cohering to form an aggregate fruit; ovules anatropous, and large 

 seeds with a crustaceous coat, ruminated albumen (in the manner of a nutmeg), 

 and a minute embryo. Sepals and petals deciduous. A tropicU order, except 

 in the Atlantic United States. 



1 . ANONA. Petals valvate in the bud, thick aud fleshy, those of the inner series smaller 

 but little different from the outer. Anther-tips convex. Carpels numerous, one-ovuled, 

 imbricated over the elongated receptacle and more or less confluent iu a mass, forming a 

 fleshy aggregate fruit. 



2. ASIMINA. Petals of each scries imbricated in the bud (at least the outer or the inner 

 distant), accrescent, membranaceous or thinnish, veiny, commonly rugnlose, more or less 

 dissimilar ; the outer plane aud spreading ; inner smaller aud erect, mostly thicker, concave 

 at base. Stamens densely covering the globose torus : anther-tips depressed and pulvinate. 

 Carpels few or several, distinct, sessile or very short-stipitate, few-many-seeded, only one to 

 three or four (or rarely six) maturing into oblong baccate fruits. Seeds horizontal, encased 

 iu a tliin membranaceous arillus. 



1. ANONA, L. Custard Apple. (Corruption of a Malayan name, 

 menona or manoa, not from the Latin annona, provision or annual produce.) — 

 Tropical American trees, early carried found the world: the following natural 

 to S. Florida. — Syst. Nat. ed. 1, & Gen. no. 446; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 27. 



A. laurifolia, Dfnal. Tree 10 to 30 feet high, glabrous: leaves oval to oblong: outer 

 petals inch or two long, ovate or subcordate; inner obovate, somewhat cucullate-concave : 

 fruit (hardly edible in the manner of the cultivated custard apples) 3 or 4 iuches long, the 

 carpels all completely fused at maturity into a smooth-rinded apple-like or pear-sliaped mass. 

 — Monog. Anon. 6.5 (Catesb. Car. ii. 67, t. 67); DC. Prodr. i. 84; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 603; 

 Sargent, U. S. 10th Census, ix. 23.^ Porc.elia pnrvi flora, Audubon, Birds Amer. ii. t. 162 

 (and in 8vo ed. v. 14, t. 281). — Low islands and everglades, S. E. Florida. (W. Ind., 

 S. Am.) 



2. ASIMINA, Adans. Papaw of N. Americans. (Abbreviation of 

 Assiminier of the French colonists, who took the name from the Indians.) — 

 Consists of a small tree and three or four low shrubs of Atlantic U. S., not aro- 

 matic, but bruised herbage and bark unpleasantly heavy-scented : flowers ill- 

 scented ; solitary or few in a fascicle, produced from the axils of preceding or 



1 Add syn. 1 A. glabra, L. Spec. i. 537 (Catesb. Car. ii. 64, t. 64). The identity of this species 

 with Dunal's, of later description, has been maintained by Sargent, Gard. & For. ii. 616, & Silv. 

 i. 29, t. 17, 18; but the Linnsean species, founded solely upon Catesby's flowerless figure with obvi- 

 ously erroneous habitat, is certainly too indefinite to be satisfactorily revived. Especially is this the 

 case, as Catesby, upon whose two figures the species were founded, evidently regarded them as rlif- 

 fereut plants. 



