ANONACEJE. 7 
Browne , Jam. 254. — Sloane, Jam. II. IG6. t. 225. — Swartz , 
Obs. 220 . — De Cand. Si/st. 1. 4G7. 
HAB. Common every where. 
FJj. April — August. 
A tree, seldom more than 15 feet in height, with suberect 
branches : branchlets ferruginous, rimuloso-verrucose, glabrous. 
Leaves oblong, sub-obovate, acuminate, glabrous, shining and 
deep green above, minutely puberulons albido-punctulated and 
paler beneath, 6 inches long and l^tlis broad: petiole short, 
terete. Peduncles in the axilla of a leaf which lias fallen off, 
or arising from naked portions of the stem or branches, either 
solitary, or two or three together, thick, 1-flowered. Flowers 
large. Calycine segments short, deltoid, thickish. Petals ; the 
3 outer ones ovate, sub-cordate, concave, coriaceous, externally 
yellow : the 3 inner somewhat smaller, orbiculate rounded and 
obtusely apiculate below the apex, concave-. Torus hemisphe- 
rical, puberulous. Anthers subsessile; locules 2; pollenary 
globules arranged in two rows, connected together in a bead- 
like manner. Ovaries linear, angulose, sericeo-pubescent : stig- 
mata sessile, linear, angular, glabrous, accrete to one another, 
deciduous. Fruit size of a Shaddock, ovoideo-cone-shaped, in - 
curved at the apex, green, glabrous, murieated ; spinules ovato- 
subulate, acute, recurved : pulp white: seeds oblong, compressed, 
black. 
This is a very common tree in all parts of the Island. The 
fruit is gratefully acid, and may be eaten plain, or mixed with 
sugar and water, to which wine and nutmeg are sometimes added. 
Horses, cows, hogs, and indeed every description of stock are 
fond of it. The flowers have a grateful but somewhat heavy 
odour. The smell of the leaves is rather disagreeable, and has 
some resemblance to that of the leaves of the Currant. The 
wood is said to be hard. 
2. Anona montana. Mountain or Wild Sour- Sop. 
Leaves oblong acuminate at both ends glabrous 
and shining; above with the axils of the nerves ex- 
cavated and ciliated beneath, peduncle opposite to a 
leaf twice the length of the petiole, outer petals 
rotundo-ovate acuminate, inner orbiculate obtuse, fruit 
subglobose murieated with the spinules straight. 
A. muricata, Var. (3. Dunal ? 
HAB. Orchard, Port-*Royal mountains. 
FL. May — October. 
A lowly tree, branches terete, glabrous. Leaves alternate, 
petiolate, oblong, acuminate at both ends, nerved, with the axils 
of the nerves beneath excavated and ciliated, reticulato-venose, 
subcoriaceous, glabrous, shining above, about 5 inches in length, 
