ANONAGE^. 



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free or cohering to a variable extent, valvatc in aestivation. The 

 corolla consists of six petals, that may be narrow, acute, and thick, 

 as in most species of Xt/lopia ; a character found in the highest degree 

 in some American species, as A. Llehniamiiana,^ qidnduensis,- &c. In 

 others, such as A. Cherimolia, cherimolloides;, reticulata, squamosa, &c., 

 the corolla, less elongated and acute in the bud, comes nearer that 



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A)W»a muricntn. 



Pig. 269. 



Flower. 



Fig. 271. 



Loiio-itudinal section of fruit (\] 



of several species o'i Mclodonon. In others, again, the bud is ovoidal 

 and more or less trigonous, as in A. sericca, Plsonis, coruifolia, coriacea, 

 &c., or globular, as in different forms of y^. senegalensis, or even de- 

 pressed and of greater breadth than height, as in A. tcnuifolia {for/i- 

 foUa)^-^ In several species the inner petals become much shorter than 

 the outer ones, and are only represented by very short spoon-shaped 

 scales ; and in some others they finall}^ disappear entirely.'' But despite 



' n. 15n., Adamonia, viii. 260, n. 4. '' On those chnracters De Maktii's (f/. ^/a.?., 



- 11. IJ. K., Nov. Geii. et Spec, v. 47, ii, 12. Anonac, 3, 46) has founded a division of the 



^ Sec Adtinsonia, viii. 296, wliere the inter- genus Anona into two sections : 1st, 0-uanaha»i, 



niiKliato forms observed in many otlier species of in wliich the flowers liave six well-develoju'd 



tliis genus are reviewed more in detail. petalsj 2nd, Ada, whoie the inner petals are 



