PLANTS CULTIVATED FOE THEIR FEUITS. 173 



3. In the new African -flotas already quoted, A. 

 squamosa and the others of which I shall spfeak presently 

 are always mentioned as cultivated species. 



4. McNab, the horticulturist, found A. squamosa in 

 the dry plains of Jamaica,^ which confirms the asser- 

 tions of preivious authors. Eggers says* that the Species 

 is common in the thickets of Santa Crilz and Virgin 

 Islands. I do not find that it has been discovered wild 

 in Cuba. 



5. On the American continent it is given as culti- 

 vated.' However, M. Andrd sent me a specimen from a 

 stony district in the Magdalena valley, which appears to 

 belong to this species and t(i be wild: The fruit is want- 

 ing, which renders the matter doubtful. From th6 note; on 

 the ticket, it is a delicious fruit like that of A. Squa- 

 mosa. Warming * mentions the species as cultivated at 

 Lagda Santa in Brazil It appears, therefore, to be 

 cultivated or naturalised frotm cultivation in Para, 

 Guiana, and New Granada. 



In fine, it can hardly be dottbted,'in my opinion, 

 that its original country is America, and in especial the 

 West India Islands, ' • 



Sour Sop — A nona muricata, Linnseus. 



This -fruit-tree,^ introduced into aU the colonies in 

 tropical countries is wild in the West Indies ; at least, 

 its existence has been proved in the islands of Cuba, 

 St. Domingo, Jamaica, and several of the smaller 

 islands,* It is'som,etimes naturalized on the continent 

 of South America near dwellings.' Andr^ brought 

 specimens from the district of Cauca in New Granada, 



• Grisebach,^. of. Brit. TV. I. Isles, p. 5. 



• Eggera, Flora of Si. Croix and Virgin Isles, p. 23. 



' Triana andrplatichon, Prodr. Fl. Novo-Qranatensis, p. 29- Saeot 

 Joum. Soc. d'Hortic, 1872. ' 



• Warming, SymhdLiB ad. M. Bras., xyi.p. .434. 



• Figared in Descoiirtilz, Fl. Med. des. Antilles, ii. pi 87, and in 

 Tnssac, j^. des Antilles, ii. p. 24. 



• Bichard, FUmtes t^asf^'t'laires de Cuba,, p. 29; Swartz, Obs,, p. 221; 

 P. Bi-own, Jamaica, p. 255 ; Maofadyen, Fl. of jam., p. 7 ; Eggei's, Fl 

 of St. Croix, p. 23 j Grisebaoh, Fl. ^rit. W. t., p. 4f, 



' Martins, Fl. Brasil, faso. ii. p. 4; Split^erber, PL de Sunnam, in 

 Nederl. Kruidle. Arch., L p. 226, 



