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in the Canaries. The fruit is spherical and simply areolate, like 

 A. Cherimolia L., not squamoso-tuberculate. It is preferred in 

 the Cape Verdes to the " Pinna." 



4. A. mueicata L. — Sour-sop. Not very common even in the 

 Cape Verdes, where it is called "Pinhao;" and in Madeira 

 stunted, starved, and never fruiting. The large obliquely cone- 

 shaped softly muricate green fruit has a fine briskly sharp rather 

 than acid taste, totally different from the creamy softness of the 

 three preceding species ; and though with a peculiar resinous or 

 crude and slightly fishy flavour, it is a very fine refreshing fruit. 



Ceucieeeace^]. 



5. Beassica oleeacea L. The various sorts of cabbage, ex- 

 cepting savoys, are very generally cultivated in each of the three 

 groups of islands, — but brocoli and cauliflowers in Madeira alone, 

 and there only occasionally. Brussels-sprouts have not yet found 

 their way ; but I cultivated successfully for some years the French 

 or Grerman Clwu-rave in Madeira. 



6. B. campesteis L. /3 (B. Bapa L.). Turnips are now com- 

 monly grown in Madeira, and more rarely in the Canaries and 

 Cape Yerdes. In the latter, especially in the interior of St. Iago, 

 I have seen them in gardens, of an enormous size and first-rate 

 quality. 



7. Baphanus sativtjs L. Badishes are not uncommon in Ma- 

 deira and the Canaries ; but I have only once seen them in the 

 Cape Yerdes, in a garden at Porto Praia in St. Iago, where, how- 

 ever, they were remarkably fine and flourishing. 



ClUSIACE^E (GrTJTTIEEEiE auct.). 



8. Mammea Aheeicana L. — Ifammee Apj)le; Mamao, Port. 

 Yery rare and scarcely fruiting in Madeira. Not seen in the 

 Canaries. G-eneral in the Cape Yerdes and fruiting regularly, 

 the fruit ripening in the summer. It is a fine evergreen tree, with 

 large Magnolia-like stiff coriaceous shining leaves and globose 

 fruit like a hard brown ball, said to be very good. 



Malvacejb. 



9. G-osstpixjm pxtkctatum Schum. et Th, This white- or pale- 

 blush-pink-flowered cotton-plant is largely cultivated and indeed 

 subnaturalized in the Cape Yerdes, but it is not known in Ma- 

 deira and the Canaries, where one or two yellow-flowered shrubby 



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