Ord anonace^. 



1. ANONA,Lk, 

 1. Anona palustris, Linn. 



Anona palustris, Linn. Spec. ed. 2, p. 757 ? St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1 7 p. 32 ; Mart. 



Anonac. Fl. Bras. p. 11. 

 A. Americana, etc. Pluk. Aim. t. 135, f. 1. 



Hab. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil : abundant in the Mangrove swamps. 



I have not at present the means of comparing the Brazilian and 

 West Indian specimens of the Alligator-apple, Monkey-apple, or Cork- 

 wood, as it is variously called ; but our specimens evidently belong to 

 what the learned Yon Martius takes for Anona palustris, and have 

 nearly membranaceous leaves, in shape like those of the Pear, as he 

 describes them. 



2. Anona squamosa, Linn., Mart. I. c. 



Hab. St. Jago, Cape de Yerde Islands ; introduced. Dr. Pickering 

 records it, as an introduced tree, at the Society, Navigator, and Tonga 

 Islands. 



The Sour-sop or Guanabo, a West Indian species, is now widely 

 diffused throughout the tropics. For an admirable historical account 

 of the cultivated species, vide Martius, Adnotationes de Historia 

 Anonarum Cultarum, in his Flora Brasiliensis, 1. c. 



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