
          ANNONA SQUAMOSA. Sugar
Apple. Indigenous to the Malay Islands, 
but now cultivated throughout
the tropics and subtropics. Superior
varieties are readily propagated by
budding on seedlings of the same
species or on A. glabra. The roundish
fruits, about 4 inches in diameter,
contain a soft granular pulp of pleasant, 
sweet flavor, enclosing numerous 
seeds.

36088. ANTIDESMA BUNIUS.
Bignay. From Mr. O. W. Barrett,
Philippine Islands. A small, handsome 
euphorbiaceous tree with dark
evergreen leaves of bitter flavor. Fruit
about the size of a pea, dark red in
color, ripening to black, sweet sub
acid in flavor, produced in long racemes 
like the currant. It is used in
Java for preserving, but is also eaten
raw.

34695. ANTIDESMA NITIDUM.
From C. F. Baker, Los Banos, Philippine 
Islands. A fine, shapely shrub,
nearly covered with great numbers of
pendant clusters of small edible berries 
of a red color turning to black.
Valuable for its fruit and for ornamental 
planting.
        