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Sect. c 2 — Inner petals minute. Flowers pendent. 
4. Anona squamosa. Sweet-Sop. 
Leaves lanceolate sub-glabrous minutely albido- 
punctulated beneath, peduncles generally 2 together 
lateral, outer petals lanceolate, inner minute, fruit 
rounded obtusely squamose. 
Sloans , II. 168 t. 227 — Prowne, 256. — Jacq. Obs. I. 13. t. 
6 — Swartz, Obs. 221. — Gcert. Fruct. II. 193. t. 138. — Be Cand. 
Syst. I. 472. — Prod. I. 85. — Hooker , Pot. Mag. 3095. 
11AB. Cultivated; growing spontaneously in the dry plains 
on the south side of the Island. 
FL. May — September. 
A tree, about 15 feet in height, of a stunted irregular growth : 
branches spreading; branchlets subflexuose, pubescent. Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, oblongo-lanceolate, subacuminate, sub- 
glabrous above, glaucous minutely puberulous and albido-punc- 
tulated beneath, 6 inches long and 1^ broad : petiole terete, pu- 
berulous. Peduncles generally 2 together, subopposite to a leaf, 
an inch in length, terete, puberulous, thickened towards the 
flower. Flowers pendent. Segments of the calyx short, deltoid, 
externally sericeo-pubeseent. Outer petals an inch long, lan- 
ceolate, triquetrous, of a thick coriaceous texture, externally un- 
der the glass velutino-puberulous, internally at the base with a 
purple-coloured excavation : inner petals minute, spathulate, 
keeled on the back, thick. Fruit size of an Orange , roundish, 
or ovoideo-cone-shaped, glaucous, of a yellowish green colour, 
squamose : scales mamilloso-tuberculated : pulp white with a 
tinge of yellow, very sweet. Seeds elliptic, compressed or 
obsoletely angulated, of a chestnut colour : albumen filled with 
numerous transverse brown lines or clefts. 
This tree was formerly considered as a native of the con- 
tinent of South America. St Hilaire has however attempted 
to prove that it must have been originally imported from the 
East Indies.* In this Island, it is common in every district, 
especially in the plains. The fruit is a great favourite with 
the Creoles ; but I have never met with a European who was 
partial to it. In times of scarcity, I am informed that it has 
been taken green, and, after being boiled, employed as a sub- 
stitute for what, in the language of the country, is called 
bread-kind. 
5. Anona Cherimolia. Cherimoya or Cherimolia. 
Leaves oblong impimctate pubescent above tomen- 
tiiloso-velutine beneath, peduncles subopposite to 
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