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fafc. t. i6. Aubl. Guian. 6i8. (Manoa; Rumph. Am- 

 boin. V. I. 136. t. 45.) — Leaves oblong-lanceolate, fmooth. 

 Outer petals fpreading at the extremity. Fruit teiTellated, 

 with gibbous interftices. — Native of South America and fome 

 parts of the Weft Indies. Cultivated in the Molucca iflands. 

 This is faid to differ from the laft, in having the interilices 

 of the fruit tumid, (what then becomes of Plumier's t. 143. 

 f. I ?) its pulp more flimy, and not agreeably flavoured. 

 The lea'ues alfo are fomewhat narrower. 



Seft. 4. Outer petals elliptic-oblong, obtufe ; inner fmaller, 

 lanceolate, bluntijh. Calyx large, coriaceous, three-cleft, fome- 

 tuhat bell-Jhaped. Fruit conical, fmooth ? Three fpecies. 



20. A. glabra. (See Annona n. 8.) Linn. Sp. PI. 758. 

 Willd. n. 10. (" A. maxima, foliis latis, fruftu maximo, 

 luteo, conoide, cortice glabro ; Cateft). Car. v. 2. t. 64.") 

 — Leaves ovato-lanceolate, fmooth. Stalks two-flowered, 

 oppofite to the leaves. Fruit conical, obtufe, even. — Native 

 of Carolina, according to Catefty. Cultivated perhaps m 

 the Weft Indies. A tree fixteen feet high, with fmooth 

 leaves, much refembling thofe of a lemon-tree. Calyx red- 

 difh externally, of three broad, very fhort, often abrupt 

 lobes. Petals fix, nearly obovate, twice the length of the 

 calyx. 



Zl. A. grandijlora. Lamarck Dic^. v. 2. 126. Willd. 

 n. 17. " Dunal Monogr. 75. t. 6 and 6 a." — Leaves ovato- 

 lanceolate, fmooth, coriaceous ; ftiining above. Stalks axil- 

 lary, folitary. Fruit ovate, fmooth, fomewhat dotted. — 

 Native of the Mauritius, and Madagafcar. Leaves rather 

 glaucous beneath. Calyx, and backs of the petals, finely 

 downy. The inner petals are an inch long, being nearly 

 equal So the outer. Fruit of a middling fize, flightly 

 rugged. 



22. A. amplexicaulis. Lamarck Ditl. v. 2. 127. Willd. 

 n. 18. " Dunal Monogr. 76. t. 7." — Leaves oblong-heart- 

 ftaped, clafping the ftem, acute, fmooth. Stalks axillary, 

 folitary, fingle -flowered. — Found by Commerfon in the ifles 

 of Mauritius and Madagafcar. The leaves are feflile ; glau- 

 cous or purplilli beneath, at leaft when dry. Three inner 

 petab rather the fmalleft. 



SeCl. 5. Annone not fufficiently knoiun. Five fpecies. 



2T,. A. afiatica. (See Anxona n. 9.) — Linn. Sp. PI. 

 758. Willd. n. 12. — Leaves oblong, pointed, without dots ; 



downy when young Native of Ceylon. Linnaeus. A fpe- 



cimen under this name is found in liis herbarium, but there 

 is no evidence of its being what he intended in his Fl. Zeyl. 

 nor even in the firft edition of Sp. PI. There are neither 

 floiuers nor fruit, nor can we fatisfy ourfelves of this fpeci- 

 "men being the fame fpecies as the botanifts of Tranquebar 

 fend us for A. afiatica, which latter agrees beft \vith fqua- 

 mofa, n. 14. 



Zi,. A.fenegalenfis. " Perf. Ench. v. 2. 9,. Dunal Mo- 

 nogr. 75." — Leaves broadly ovate, fomewhat heart -ftiaped, 

 coriaceous, fmooth ; glaucous beneath. Footftalks finely 

 downy. Flower-ftalks two or three together, lateral, between 

 the leaves. — Native of Senegal and Guinea. Floiuers fmall. 

 Three outer petals ovate, obtufe, thick, thrice the length 

 of the calyx. 



25. A. ? uniflora.' " Dunal Monogr. 76." — Leaves oblong, 

 pointed, fmooth ; glaucous beneath. Flower-ftalks downy, 

 hoary, oppofite to the leaves— Native of Para, in Brafil. 

 Young branches downy and hoary. Leaves nearly feffile. 

 Floioers oppofite to the uppermoft leaf on each branch, 

 with one or two orbicular leafy bra^eas. Calyx in three 

 hrge, deep, ovate, coriaceous fegments, externally hoary. 

 The unexpanded pftali appear fimilar thereto. A beautiful 

 fpecies, but tlie genus is doubtful. De Cand. 



26. A. ? exfucca. " Dunal Monogr. 77."— Leaves ovate- 



oblong, coriaceous, fmooth, like the branches, on both 

 ■fides ; polilhed above. Flower-ftalks fimple or divided, 

 nearly oppofite to the leaves. — Gathered in the woods of 

 Guiana, by Mr. Alexander Anderfon, whofe fpccimens were 

 examined by profeflbr De Candolle in Mr. Lambert's her- 

 barium. A handfome tree, with a fmall, entirely 61^, fruit. 

 Branches fmooth from the firft. Leaves two and a half to 

 four inches long. Petals three-lobed ! This furely may 

 well be deemed a doubtful Annona. 



27. A. africana. (See An'NOVA n. 10.) Linn. Sp. PI. 

 758. WiUd. n. 14; excluding the fynonyms. (A. fohis 

 lanceolatispubefcentibus ; Linn. Hort.CHff. 222.) — "Leaves 

 lanceolate, downy." — This is recorded in the Hortus Clif- 

 fortianus to have fprung up from African feeds. The 

 " habitat in America" is therefore a grofs and palpable flip 

 of the pen, in the fecond edition of Sp. PI., (it is Aethiopia 

 in the firft,) which the editors of Linnjcus's writings ftiould 

 have correfted ; for fuch a contradiftion of the fpecific 

 name, might have induced fome inquiry. Nothing appears 

 for this fpecies in the Linnxan herbarium. In Hort. Chff. 

 the branches are faid to be rough with minute dots. Leaves 

 ovate, but rather elongated ; downy, and in a manner hoary, 

 on both fides, by no means pohflied. 



For other plants which have been referred to Annora, fee 

 Orchidocarpum, Asimixa, and Mosodora. 



ANOMALY, col. 4, 1. 15, for 122,441 r. 1,222,441. 



ANOMATHECA, in Botany, from a»o^.o?, oat »f rule, 

 and ir,Kr,, a cafe; becaufe the capfule is diftinguilhed by its 

 papillary roughnefs, from all the reft of the plants of the 

 fame natural order, that have hitherto been examined. — 

 Ker in Sims and Ken. Ann. of Bot. v. i. 227. Dryandr. 

 in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. i. go. — Clafs and order, Tnandrta 

 Monogynia. Nat. Ord. Enfais, Linn. Iridss, Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Sheath inferior, of two very fmall, ellip- 

 tical, concave, leafy, nearly equal valves. Cor. of one 

 petal, fuperior, falv'er-fliaped ; tube many times longer than 

 the flieath, ftraight, nearly cyhndrical, a little dilated at the 

 mouth ; limb not quite regular, in fix, nearly equal, obovate, 

 deep fegments. Stam. Filaments three, inferted mto the tube, 

 thread-ftiaped, ereft, much ftiorter than the limb ; anthers 

 vertical, oblong, converging. Pifl. Germen roundilh ; 

 ftyle thread-ftiaped, about tlie length of the ftamens ; ftig- 

 mas three, deeply divided, with linear, fpreading fegments. 

 Peric. Capfule roundifli -ovate, of three cells and thne 

 valves, its furface covered with fmall, papillary tubercles. 

 Seeds numerous, round. 



Eft". Ch. Sheath of two valves. Corolla falver -ftiaped. 

 Stigmas three, deeply divided. Capfule minutely tuber- 

 culated. 



I. A. juncea. Cut-leaved Anomatheca. Ker n. i. 

 Ait. n. I. (Lapeyroufia juncea; Curt. Mag. t. 606. 

 Gladiolus junceus ; Linn. Suppl. 94. Thunb. Glad. n. 18., 

 Cap. V. 1. 201, excluding the fynonym of Jacquin ! Re- 

 dout. Liliac. t. 141. G. polyftachius ; Andr. Repof t. 66.) 

 — Found by Thunberg, in Lange Kloof, at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, flowering from Oftober to Dece^nbcr. It 

 flowers in May in our green-houfes, where it is not uncoin- 

 mon, being eafily propagated by ofl"sets and by feed. The 

 bulb is ovate. Leaves radical, equitant, fword-lhapcd, 

 acute, dark-green, many-ribbed, with a deep Hoping notch 

 at their inner edge, from the bafe about half way up. 

 Stalk a foot high, being twice as tall as the leaves, round, 

 rather flender, branched, fmooth, bearing many fohtarv, 

 unilateral, flightly zigzag,>-/<A of elegant, roie-coloured. 

 fcentlefs>-a;.r.; the irregularity ot v.\xok corolla ,, 

 evinced by the three lower f.-gments being each marked 

 with a deep red fpot, and the middle one being moreover 

 ^ T t 2 white 



