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ing in Bengal and Bihar than they have in the more hilly and 
more jungly parts of India. Even trees which occur only planted 
and show no tendency to spring up spontaneously may become 
prominent features in the landscape. 
RANUNCULACE. 
1. Nicetia sativa, Linn. B. P., vol.i, p. 194: “ In cultivat- 
ed ground, spontaneous, cries in the western parts. A = 
also occurring asa weed.” Watt, Ee. Dict., vol. v, p. 428: 
native of Southern Europe. Its Sanscrit name indicates its in- 
troduction at a very early period.” Voigt, H.S. C., p. 4: “ Accli- 
matized in the gardens of India. Domesticated about Seeisesons:" 
oxb., F. : “Nigella indica, R. A native of Hindoo- 
stan.” Probably originally a native of Northern Syria and the 
Eastern Mediterranean Regio on. The writer has also found it 
gr pee on the banks of the Ganges in N. Bengal. 
ANONACER. 
2. Awona Ser haw by Innn. B. P., vol. i, p. 206: “‘ Near 
ted a 
amongst the py an immediately east of Bengal, and univer- 
ANONA mii jaa B. oy te 206 : ‘“ Near villages, 
planted and sometimes self-sown, common, Custard Apple.” 
Watt, Hc. Dict., vol. i, p. 259: ‘“ Naturalised in Bengal. There 
seems to be hardly any doubt as to Anona squamosa being an in- 
troduced pe. ” Brandis Sala that it is almost Madea in the Central 
reticulata appear to sess an ancient Sanscrit name, the names 
Ramphal and Sitaphal being probably of vernacular origin. Con- 
sidering that out of sixty species of Anona, all of which are na- 
tives of Tropical America, only two or three are are doubtfully African 
and Asian, we may take it as highly. probable that both A. squa- 
mosa and A, reticulata are indigenous in America, probably in abe 
Antilles Islands.. So much appears to be certain, that if eather: of 
the two is Indian, it is rather A. reticulata than A. squamosa. 

