TRAVELS IN 
a h£w and moil beautiful fpecies of Annona, bal- 
ing clutters of large whi 
diminutive but 
uegant 
te fragrant dowers ; and a 
Kalfnia. The fee ms are 
very final], feeble, and for the rnofc part undivided, 
fumifhed with little o^ate pointed leaves, and ter- 
minate with a firm pie racemi, or fpike of Bowers, 
falver formed, and of a deep rofe red. The whole 
plant is ciliated. It grows in abundance all over 
the moiit favannas, but more efpecially near ponds 
and bay-fwamps. In fimilar fituations, and com- 
monly a near neighbour to this new Kalmia, is feen 
a very curious fpecies of Annona. It is very dwarf, 
the Items feldom extending from the earth more 
than a foot or eighteen inches, and are w T eak and 
almofl decumbent. The leaves are long, extremely 
narrow, almofl lineal. However, fmall as they are, 
they retain the figure common to the fpecies, that 
is, lanceolate, Lroadefc at the upper end, and atte- 
nuating down to the petiole, which is very fhort ; 
their leaves fraud alternately, nearly ere£t, forming 
two feries, or wings, on the arcuated items. The 
flowers, both in fize and colour, refemble thofe of 
the Antrilobe, and are fingie from the axillae of 
the leaves on incurved pfdunculi, nodding down- 
wards. I never faw the fruit. The dens, or ca- 
verns, dug in the fand-hills, by the great land-tor- 
toife, called here Gopher *, prefent a very fingular 
appearance : thefe vait caves are their cattles and 
diurnal retreats, from whence they iffue forth iri 
the night, in fearch of prey. The little mounds, 
or hillocks of frefh earth, thrown up in great num- 
bers in the night, have alfo a curious appearance. 
In the evening I arrived at a cow-pen, where 
them 
* TeiVudo Polyphemus, 
