PLANTS CULTIVATED FOK THEIK FRUITS. 169 



Saint-Hilaire,^ the Portuguese feaijfeporteJ ^. squamosa 

 from their Indian to their American ppssess'ions, etc." 



Having made in 1832 a review, of the family of the 

 Anonacese/ I noticed how Mr. Brown's botanical argument 

 was ever growing stronger; foxin spite of the C0nsidera;ble 

 increase ia the number of described' Anonaeese, no Anona, 

 nor even any species of Anbnacese with united ovaries, 

 had been found to be a; native of Asia,. I admitted* 

 the probability that the species came from the West 

 Indies or from the neighbouring part of the American 

 continent ; but I inadvertently attributed this opinion to 

 •Mr. Brown, who had merely inidjcated an American origiii 

 in general.* ' ' 



Facts of different kinds have since confirmed this 

 view. : , 



"Anona squamosa has been found wild in Asia, 

 apparently as a naturalized plant ; in Africa, .and espe- 

 cially ha. America, with all the conditions of an indigenous 

 plant. In fact, according to Dr. Eoyle,^ the species has 

 been naturalized in several parts of India ; but he only 

 saw it apparently growing wild on the sideof the moun- 

 tain near the, fort of Adjeegurh in Bundleciind, among 

 teak trees. When so remarkablb a treej in a country so 

 thoroughly explored by botanists, has only been discovered 

 in a single locality beyond the limits of cultivation, it is 

 most probable that it is not indigenous in the country. 

 Sir Joseph Hooker found it in the isle of St. lago, of the 

 Cape Verde group, forming woods on the hiUs which over- 

 look the valley of St. Domingo.^ Since A. squamosa 

 is only known as a cultivated plant on the neighboutirig 

 continent ; 7 as it is not even iadicated in Guinea by 

 Thqnning,^ nor in Congo,^ nor in Senegambia,^" nor in 



' Ang. de Saint- Hilaire, Flantea lisueiles des.BnSsili^mSiVk. vi. p. 5. 

 ' Alph. de Candolle, Mem. Soe, FJiys. et d'Sist. Nat. de Gen^oe. 

 • UicJ., p. 19 of Jfero. printed separately. ' 



' See Bota;ny of Congo, and the German translation of Brown's works, 

 n-hicb has alphabetical tables. 



' Boyle, lij. Hrnial., p. 60. , , . 



' Webb, in Fl. Nigr., p. 97. ' Ibid., p. 204. 



' ThonniDg, PI. Guin, * Brown, Oonsro,. p, 6. 



" Guillemin, Penpttet, and Richard, Tentamen Fl. Beneg, 



