cultivating in England, By Mr. John Lindley. 95 



Paramaribo * Rumphius says it smells and tastes of rose- 

 water, and is so delicious that one scarcely tires ofit.-f* It 

 is well figured in a volume of Drawings of Oriental Fruits 

 belonging to the Society, and a representation of it may be 

 found in Vol. i. of the Herbarium Amboinense, plate 46. 



The Sour sop (Anona muricata), is the fruit of a moderately 

 sized tree, which is common in every savannah of Jamaica, 

 flowering in the spring. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, and 

 shining; the flowers large and yellow, with an unpleasant 

 smell. The fruit is pyramidal, heavier than the largest Pear, 

 irregular, and covered over with innocuous prickles, or small 

 tubercles on the outside. The skin is of a yellowish green 

 colour, and very thin ; the pulp of a soft pithy substance, as 

 white as milk, and of a sweet taste, mixed with a most agree- 

 able acid. Among it are mixed the seeds, which resemble a 

 large Apple-kernel. In Surinam it is called Zurzack.t Of 

 this species there are two varieties, one with green, oblong, 

 heart-shaped, curved fruit ; the other with yellow spherical 

 fruit.|| The former is figured in Jacquin's Observations 

 Botanic^, Vol. i. plate 5, the latter in Plumier's Plantce 

 Americana, plate 143, fig. 1. 



Another species (Anona palustris), is called the Alligator 

 Apple, the fruit of which is said to be a strong narcotic, although 

 sweet scented, and of a flavour which is not disagreeable. § 



All the preceding are now common in collections of 

 plants in England. 



* Stedman's Surinam, Vol. ii. page 324. f Rumphius, Vol. i. page 138. 

 \ Stedman, Vol. ii. page 25 1 . 



|| De Candolle Reg. Vege. Syst. Nat. Vol. i. page 467. 

 § Browned Jamaica, page 256. 



