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"The tree is T size RE a M onde, and the 
-— * Bisse i is also Tike the leaves of the peach, and exhibits |. 
’ “s the scattered appearance which.is common to the AM t 
$ genus. The pee: i is giit and fleshy. 
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ANONA GLABRA. ph name, Mamon ; French, * 
PA inn. cour beuf. This fruit, which is natural to 
, Seems to be a variety of the Cherimoya, and 
` ag od. "The skin is brown, smooth, and downy. 
In the Dictionary of Boiste, the word “ Chirimoya” is 
defined, “te cachiment, fruit du cachimentier.” 
‘The Anonas are closely allied to the Magnolias, 
Ranunculuses, Peonies, &c. 
Arrocarpus. Of this genus there are two species 
.. cultivated, though not extensively, in Cuba ;—the Ar- 
~ ""qocanPUs INciss, Arbol del pan, or Bread Fruit, and 
d -the ARTOCARPUS INTEGRIFOLIA, or Jack Fruit... The 
leaves of the former are deeply indented, or palmate, 
and those of the latter are entire, as their specific names 
denote. The species [ saw, must have been the 
2s INCISA, | though the propriate called it the Jack Fruit ; 
pe for its large leaves were remarkably palmate. The tree 
was stout, about thirty or forty feet high ; the lowest 
branches were the longest; the foliage was not dense, 
ag free and open, each leaf having plenty of room about 
- The fruit was globular, as large as a pumpkin, 
an warty, or knobbed on the outside, and of a green 
eolor. A good idea would be given of its appearance, by 
saying that it was like the seed-ball of our buttonwood or x 
sycamore (Platànus occidentalis), magnified some hun- 
dreds of times. In — it strictly belongs to the section 
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