ANNONA SQUAMOSA. Sugar 

 Apple. Indigenous to the Malay Is- 

 lands, 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 ^ inches in diameter, 

 contain a soft granular pulp of pleas- 

 ant, sweet flavor, enclosing numer- 

 ous seeds. 



36088. ANTIDESMABUNIUS. 



Bignay. From Mr. O. W. Barrett, 

 Philippine Islands. A small, hand- 

 some 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 ra- 

 cemes like the currant. It is used in 

 Java for preserving, but is also eaten 

 raw. 



34695. ANTIDESMANITIDUM. 



From C. F. Baker, Los Banos, Philip- 

 pine Islands. A fine, shapely shrub, 

 nearly covered with great numbers of 

 pendant clusters of small edible ber- 

 ries of a red color turning to black. 

 Valuable for its fruit and for orna- 

 mental planting. 



