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COMMENTARY ON 
Fructus cliinensis Khi dicta, p. 137- 
This is perhaps the Anona fructu rubicundissimo of 
Linnseus (Fl. Zeyl. 509) and Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 21), 
excluding all die sjnonyma of American plants. It may, 
however, more likely be the Anona sariffa of Dr Roxburgh, 
the plants of Southern China having a great affinity with 
those from the north-east of Bengal. 
Caput XL. 
Anona tuberosa, p. 138, t. 46. 
There can be no doubt that this and the Ata Mar am of 
the Hortus Malabaricus (iii. SI, t. 29) are the same, and 
that they are the Anona squamosa of Linnaeus, and subse- 
quent authors. Notwithstanding what Plukenet says (Aim. 
32), this is what the English abroad call Custard-apple ; 
nor either in the East or West Indies did I ever hear it 
called Sweet Sop, as the Hortus Kewensis alleges (iii. 334) 
on the authority of Plukenet (Aim. 32). It is indeed im- 
possible that any person could compare the fruit of our 
other species of Anona to a custard, or any thing tolerable. 
The Sweet Sop, in Jamaica at least, I believe to be the 
Anona micricata, called Cachiman in the French Islands, 
Caput XLI. 
Cujavus domestica, p. 140, t. 47- 
Caput XLII. 
Cnjavus agrestis, p. 142, t. 48. 
Since the time of Linnaeus, the former of these has been 
called Psidium pyriferum, and the latter P. pomiferum ; 
and Willdenow has placed no less than four species be- 
tween them : but there is no real difference of species, in 
