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ANONACKAE. 



Anona senegalensiS) Wild custard Ofple. Several Anonas come within our 

 limits, the mure frequent one being the variety of ./. seHegaltHSU distinguished 

 as u rhodesiaca" by Engler and Diels. It occurs throughout Central Africa 

 and extends southwards as far as Natal. The fruit, a compound pseudocarp, is 

 rather small, not much bigger than a good-sized walnut, and contains only a 

 little orange-coloured but strongly aromatic pulp, in which the black seeds are 

 embedded. In the tropics the plant forms good-sized bushes, but at its 

 southern limit it is only about a foot high, being too often destroyed by veld 

 fires. 



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