FOREST TREKS. 



average blade 3^x1^ in. Flowers solitary or in 

 pairs, greenisli-yellow. Fruit the size of an apple, 

 tubercled, many seeded. 



Timber soft and close-grained. "Weight 46 lb. 

 per cubic foot. Custard apples are reputed to be 

 good for the digestion. " Leaves, immature fruits 

 and seeds, contain a principle fatal to insects. The 

 leaves are often rubbed on floors, &c., in houses 

 to get rid of insects." Fawcett. 



In this country, the seed-powder is applied to the 

 head for a similar purpose. Local importance is 

 attached to the medicinal properties of the seed, 

 leaf, and bark of this well-known species. 



Cultivation.— Existing measures are, as a rule, 

 very hap-hazard, but with proper irrigation and the 

 selection of good manures the different custard 

 apples might be cultivated with much profit. Ex- 

 periment in grafting would no doubt produce good 

 results, as it has done in the case of mango, guava, 

 and othet" tropical fruits. Seedlings are easily 

 raised. 



12 Anona reticulata, Linx. Kan. Ramphal, Eamphala. 

 iig-Bot. Platen Lal-Bagh Collection. 



References— Ucon. Ft. Jamaica; Did. Econ. 

 JProd. of Ind. 



A small tree. The "bullocks heart," or proper 

 custard apple of the West Indies. Leaves alternate, 

 shortly petiolate, slightly pubescent when yojing', 

 subsequently glabrous, oblong-acute, average blade' 

 5 X 2i in. Flowers axillary, in twos or threes, 

 greenish-yellow. Fruit larger and not so prolific as' 

 in the sweet-sop. Wood indifferent in quality and 

 small in growth. Weight about 40 lb. per cubic 

 foot. Cultivated in gardens, but not so popular as 

 the foregoing species although the fruit is admitted 

 to be good. 



