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COMMENTARY ON 
Caput XXXIX. 
Anona, p. 136, t. 45. 
Kumphius considered this as the saine with the Anona 
Maram of the Hortus Malabaricus (iii. 23, t. 30, 31) ; and 
the elder Burman, in his observation on this chapter, al- 
though he admits that the figures are somewhat different, 
persists in the same opinion, adding, as synonymous, the 
Anona maxima^ " foliis oblongis angustis, fructu maximo, 
luteo, conoide, cortice glabro, in areolis distincto " of Sloane, 
which is the Anona Oviedi of Clusius, Parkinson, and J. 
Bauhin, and which is also quoted by Catesby and Ray for 
a plant described by them. Burman also added as syno- 
nymous the Anona indica angiistifolia, " fructu coeruieo, 
cortice squamato glabro" of Plukenet (Aim. 32; Phyt. 
t. 134, f. 4). Now, I see no very great objection to the 
first set of synonyma, although Rumphius alleges, that the 
plant of Oviedo differs much from his ; but the plant of 
Plukenet, having a blue scaly fruit, cannot be that of 
Rumphius, having a yellowish or reddish fruit, like a pome- 
granate in colour. The plant of Plunkenet may, however, 
be the same with that of the Hortus Malabaricus, of which 
fructus non, uti Atamaram, e compactile lignosarum 
squamarum strue compositi, sed undique glabro, hyacin- 
thino ac tenui nitente cortice obducti sunt."" If by this 
Rheede means that the fruit is purple, like a hyacinth, 
such a plant is totally unknown to me. In other respects, 
his account of the fruit agrees very well with that of a 
plant very common in India, and which I take to be the 
Anona of Rumphius, although I must confess that its fruit 
does not exactly resemble either that delineated in the 
Herbarium Amboinense, or Hortus Malabaricus ; nor do 
the figures of the fruit, in these two works, resemble each 
other. 
