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COMMENTARY ON 
the Anona of the Hortus Malabaricus, deterred probably 
by the figure of the fruit, which is not reticulata, but im- 
bricata. 
In the Encyclopedie, the plant of Catesby alone was 
joined with that of Rumphius, and annexed to the Anona 
reticulata of Jacquin, to form the Anona reticulata 
while the plant of Sloane, notwithstanding the difference 
in the colour of the fruit, was joined with the Anona of the 
Hortus Malabaricus, to form the Anona reticulata /3 ; and 
an observation is made, that the latter seems nearly allied 
to the Anona asiatica. So far the author is certainly right, 
that the Anona of Rumphius has an undoubted claim to 
be preferred to the name reticulata, having been mentioned 
as such by Linnjeus. 
Soon afterwards Willdenow divided, in a similar manner, 
the Anona reticulata into two varieties ; but, according to 
him, the first is the plant of Jacquin, united with that of 
Sloane, Catesby, and Ray, with that of the Hortus Mala- 
baricus, and with a new synonymon from Flumier, Guana- 
banus fructu aureo et molliter aculeato, which, even from 
this short character, seems different from either the plant 
of Rheede or that of Rumphius. The second variety joins 
the Anona of Rumphius with the Anona mucosa of Jac- 
quin (considered in the Encyclopedie as the Anona glabra), 
and excludes all other synonyma. 
In the Hortus Kewensis (iii. 334), the Anona of the 
Hortus Malabaricus alone is quoted for the Anona reticu- 
lata, and no notice is taken of the Anona of Rumphius. 
Amidst such confusion I do not wonder at neither behig 
quoted in the Hortus Bengalensis ; but the plant which is 
there (p. 28) called Anona reticulata, is that which I have 
considered as the Anona of Rumphius, although I must 
admit, that our plant agrees much better with the descrip- 
tion of Rumphius than with his figure ; for I have never 
