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It is thickly covered with {mall longifh blunt-pointed green Leaves. 
The top Branches fuftain a great manyred blunt conic husky Calpxes, 
Each of thefe is divided, at its Margin, into Six regular fharp-pointed 
Seétions. 
This Ca/yx furrounds Six Rofe-like {carlet Petals. 
Thefe likewife inclofe a great many red Stamina, tipped with yellow 
Apices. 
When the Flower drops, the Calyx becomes the Rudiment of the Fruit, 
which grows forewhat larger than a large round Crab-apple ; the Top 
decorated with a Corona, like a Pear. 
The Infide is divided, by thin membranaceous Lamine, into feveral 
larger’ partitional Cells. | 
Thefe are filled with granulated 4cini, clofely joined together ; and are 
generally too four to be eaten. 
The Soursop-TREE; Lat. GUANABANUS fructu e viridi 
lutefcente molliter aculeato. Plum. 
THIS is a middle-fized Tree, having many Branches, and thefe 
cloathed with numerous fharp-pointed Leaves. ; 
The Fruit is of an Heart-like Shape, but fomewhat longer, and gene- 
rally bending towards the Point ; the Outfide of a glaucous Green, ftud- 
ded here and there with foft-pointed Prickles. 
The Infide is a foft pulpy Subfance, which is eaten, and looked upon 
to be a good Cooler in Fevers. 
The ANCHOVEE APPLE-TREE, 
ST fae IS grows to the. Bignefs of a large Apple-tree. 
Its Branches are many, cloathed with {mooth green {harp-pointed 
Leaves, which are Six Inches long, and almoft Three in Breadth. 
Thefe are fet on the Branches alternately, whofe Summits fuftain a 
fhort conic husky yellowifh Pod, opening into Three Partitions; the 
Infide difcovering Seven other yellowifh imperfeét husky thick Leaves. 
In the Centre of thefe is the Fruit in Miniature, which is then about 
the. Bignefs of. a Button, incrufted all over with a pale-yellow granulated 
Subftance. 
When the Fruit grows fufficiently ftrong, to bear the feveral Viciffitudes 
of the external Air, the Leaves drop off, and the Fruit continues to grow 
to the Bignefs of a very large Ruffet-apple ; nor doth its outward Coat ill 
refemble that Apple in Colour. . ; 
Its Shape is rather of a very blunt Cone, than round. 
The Infide is of a fine Yellow ; and the Pulp, which furrounds a great 
many Lamine of oblong flattifh Seeds, is of an agreeable {weet Tafte. 
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