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flowers, said to resemble that of Narcissus. Borbori, or Borriborri, 

 is a semitkiid very aromatic pomatum prepared from these flowers, 

 those of the Chanipac, turmeric, and cocoa-nut oil. This is used to 

 rub the hair and the whole surface of the body, to bring back the 

 heat of the skin, as a cure and prophylactic for fever, especially 

 during the cold and rainy season. Guibourt asserts tliat it is no 

 doubt this oil which is known or imitated in Europe, and sold under 

 the name of Macassar oil. In Malaysia this plant is cultivated around 

 dwelling's ; the flowers are used by the natives to deck their hair, 

 clothes, and beds, and triumphal arches in their marriage ceremonies. 



The Auonas, usually elegant shrubs, cultivated in nearly all the 

 warm countries of the earth, have fruits that are often prized as 

 aliments or drugs, ^ under the general name of Curossols and Cachi- 

 mans. One of the best known is the Pomme CanneUe, Atte, or Sweet-sop, 

 the fruit of A. squamosa^- a native of the Antilles, cultivated for its 

 fruit in all the tropical regions of both worlds. This is a large 

 ovoidal or nearly globular berry, with a soft white flesh and a 

 greenish, yellowish, or greyish coat, tougher than the flesh and 

 divided into a certain number of obtuse, irregularly lozenge-shaped, 

 scaly projections (figs. 267, 2GS). Its perfume is sweet and its 

 taste very agreeable. It has been compared to that of a very ripe 

 but somewhat watery pear, and possesses a more or less decided 

 aroma of cinnamon. With the expressed juice may be prepared an 

 agreeable fermented drink like cider. The young fruit is astrin- 

 gent, and the seeds are acrid ; for Koyle reports that they are used, 

 powdered and mixed with chick peas, to destroy vermin ; they are 

 employed by the Brazilians for the same purpose, as are those of 

 several Anonas and EoUinias. 



The berry of A. CherimoUa^ {CherimoUer du Peroii), a large 



' Maht., D. Anonac. vsu, in Fl. Bras., is really the fruit of A. reticulata). According 



Anonac, 59. — Guib., Drog. Simpl., ed. 4, iii. to Oviebo it is called ,-£/io». " Hence," says A. 



675. — DucH., Repert., 178. — H. Bn., Diet. de Candolle (f?(%/-. i?o<., 8G1), the generic 



Encyl. des Sc. Medic, v. 223. — KoSENTH., <S|y«. name Anona, which Linn;eus changed into 



PI. Diaphor., 592. Annona (victnals), ohjecting to any name from 



'^ L. (Spec, 757.— Jacq., Ohs., i. 13, t. (5. — barbarous languages, and having no dread of 



Dun., 3Ion., fi'J.— DC, St/st., i. 472; Frodr., i. puns." 



85, n. 14. The fruit is variably named Cachi- ^ Mill., Diet., n. 5. — DC, Syst., i. 474; 



man or Atocire, Marie-haise, Sweet-sop or Frodr., n. 17. — A. tripetala Ait., llort. Kctc, 



Sugar-apple of the Knglish colonists, Ala, Ati ii. 252. — Sijis. Bof. Maff., t. 2011. — Oiiana- 



of the Indians, Ate, Ahatede pamicho in Mexico, banus Tkew, Fl. Scl., t. 49. 

 and in India it is misnamed Custard-apjde (which 



