THE HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE. 
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seen its fruit reticulated in any manner like what this re- 
presents. 
I may venture to say, that there are only two species of 
Anona in any manner common in the gardens of India. 
The one is the plant which will be next mentioned, about 
which there is no difficulty. The other is the Nona of the 
Gangetic provinces, called Anona reticulata by Dr Rox- 
burgh, which entirely agrees with the description of Rum- 
phius ; and, notwithstanding the figure of the fruit in this 
author has no resemblance to that of our plant, I think he 
meant no other ; and I strongly suspect, notwithstanding 
the differences both in the figure and description given in 
the Hortus Malabaricus, that the same plant is there meant, 
and that Rumphius was right in considering his Anona 
and that of Rheede as the same. I am also inclined to think 
that this is indigenous, and that we have no American 
Anona common in India, except the squamosa. I am not, 
however, by any means clear that Burman was right in 
considering the Indian Anona as the same with the Anona 
asiatica of Linnaeus. I never heard of its root being used 
as a dye ; and, on this account, I have some suspicion that 
the Ahughas (Lin. Fl. Zeyl. or Anona asiatica, is a 
Morinda. In the forests, however, bounding Bengal on the 
east, there has been found another indigenous species of 
Anona, named Suriffa by Dr Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 43), 
which may be the Anona asiatica, although I suppose it 
to be rather the Khi of Rumphius, to be immediately 
mentioned. 
Anona mas, p. 137. 
Perhaps our Anona ? 
