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water fprings, which, however, at the new and full moons, 
or in all 'nigh tides, acquire a braekifhnefs. The banks 
of every rivulet are covered with palms, whence the inha¬ 
bitants extract their wine by incifion. Here are a number 
of fertile valleys, which produce Turkey-corn, rice, mil¬ 
let, yams, potatoes, &c. and afford pafture for abundance 
of oxen, ftieep, goats, &c. Poultry and fiffi alfo abound 
here; but the only mercantile production is cotton, which 
is effeemed equal in quality to any produced in India, 
though the quantity is fmall. All the inhabitants are 
meanly clothed ; the women go bare-headed, and have al¬ 
fo the up-^er part of the body naked, modeffy being de¬ 
fended by a piece of linen wrapt under their Itomach, and 
falling down in form of a petticoat, or wide apron, to the 
knees. The men wear only a linen girdle round the loins, 
with a fmall flap before. The women carry their children 
on their backs, and fuckle them over the fhoulder. All 
the inhabitants are fubjeCt to the Portuguefe governor, who 
is the chief- perfon in the ifland ; at the fame time that the 
negroes have their own chief fubordinate to him. 
AN'NO DO'MINI, the computation of time from the 
incarnation of our Saviour. The Romans began their tera 
of time from the building of Rome; the Grecians com¬ 
puted by Olympiads; and the Chriftians reckon from the 
birth of Jefus Chrift. 
ANNOI'SANCE,yi [from annoy, but not now in ufe.] 
In law, it hath a double fignification. Any hurt done ei¬ 
ther to a public place, as highway, bridge, or common ri¬ 
ver; or to a private, by laying any thing that may breed 
infeClion, by encroaching, or liich-like means. The writ 
that is brought upon, this tranfgreflion. See Nuisance, 
the word now ufed. 
ANNOMHS'ANS, the name of the thorough-placed 
Arians in the fourth century, becaufe they held theellence 
of the Son of God to be unlike that of the Father. 
ANN 0 MlNA'T 10 N,yi in rhetoric, the fame with what 
is otherwife called paronomajia. See Paronomasia. 
ANNO'NA,yi In botany, a genus of the polyandria 
polygynia clafs, ranking in the natural order of coaduna- 
tte. The generic characters are—Calyx : perianthium 
three-leaved, fmall; leaflets cordate, concave, acuminate. 
Corolla: petals fix, cordate,, feffile; the three alternate 
interior ones lefs. Stamina: filaments fcarcely any; an- 
therae very numerous, placed on the receptacle. Piftil- 
lum: germ roundifh, placed on a roundifil receptacle; 
flyles none ; ftigmas obtufe, numerous, covering the whole 
germ. Pericarpium : a berry, very large, roundifti, clothed 
with a fcaly bark, one-celled. Seeds: very many, hard, 
ovate-oblong, placed in a ring, nettling.— EJJ'ential Charac¬ 
ter. Calyx, three-leaved; petals, fix; berry, many-feed- 
ed, roundifh, with a fcaly bark. 
Species. 1. Annona muricata, or rough-fruited cuftard- 
apple, or four fop : leaves oval-lanceolate, fmooth, acute; 
fruits muricate; petals ovate, the interior ones obtufe, 
fftorter. The firft fpecies is a middle-fized tree, rarely 
above twelve or fourteen, or at mod twenty, feet high. 
Trunk upright, with ftiff, round, fmooth, branches, and 
a brownifh afn-coloured bark. It is a native of the Weft 
Indies, and is common in every favannah of Jamaica, flow¬ 
ering in the fpring. The large fucculent fruit is agreea¬ 
ble to new-comers, and over-heated habits; but it is fo 
common, and fo much in ufe among the negroes, that it 
is hardly ever ufed among the better fort of people. The 
fmell and tafte of the fruit, flowers, and whole plant, re- 
femble very much thofe of black currants. There is a 
variety of it in Jamaica with inodorous leaves, larger 
flowers of a fulvous colour, and fpherical mucronate fruits. 
2. Ar.nona tripetala, or broad-leaved cuftard-appLe : 
leaves ovate, acute, pubefeent beneath; flowers three-pe- 
talled; petals lanceolate, coriaceous, tomentofe. The 
fecond fort grows to a very large tree in South America* 
and is well furniflied with branches. Leaves bright green* 
much larger than thofe of any other fpecies. The fruit 
is oblong, fcaly on the outflde, and of a dark purple co¬ 
lour when ripe; the flelh is foft and. fweet, and has many 
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brown feeds intermixed with it, which are very fmooth 
and fliining. This fruit is effeemed by the Peruvians as 
one of their moft delicate forts. 
3. Annona fquamofa, or undulated cuffard-apple or fweet 
fop : leaves oblong, acute, fmooth; fruits obtulely fealed ; 
outer petals lanceolate, inner ones minute. The third fort 
is a fmall tree, about eight feet in height, and is frequent¬ 
ly rather a flirub. The trunk is fmooth, and the branches 
fpreading and round. Flowers ufnally in pairs, green 
without, whitifh within. Seeds flatted a little, black 
with a white fear on the fide, wrapped in a fucculent.cot¬ 
tony fubftance. It is a native both of the Eaft and Wed: 
Indies. The fruit is fweet, and is eaten in thofe countries. 
4. Annona reticulata, or netted cuftard-apple: leaves ob¬ 
long-lanceolate, acute, fmooth; fruits ovate, reticulate- 
areolate; outer petals lanceolate, inner minute. The 
fourth fort is a tree which grows to the height of twenty- 
feet or more, with fpreading branches ; the bark is fmooth 
and of an afli-colour. The leaves are of a light green co¬ 
lour, and have feveral deep tranfverfe ribs,, ending in acute 
points. They are alternate in two rows* elongate, broad, 
rounded at the bale, acuminate with a blunted tip, entire 
about the edge, veined, fmooth on both lides. Petioles 
gibbous, fliort, excavated, fmooth. Flowers three or four 
clofe together, peduncled, nodding, whitifh. It is a na¬ 
tive both of the Eaft and Weft Indies; and, according to 
Browne, the fruit is much effeemed by many people. 
Swartz fays, that it is feldom eaten. It was cultivated in- 
1690, in the royal garden at Hampton-court. 
5. Annona hexapetala,. or long-leaved cuftard-apple: 
leaves elliptic-oblong, acute, fmooth; petals fpatulate, 
equal, acute. It is a native of China, and is cultivated 
in the Eaft Indies. 
6. Annona paluftris, or fliining-leaved cuftard-apple: 
leaves oblong, rather obtufe, fmooth; fruits areolate. 
This is a fmall tree, only a fathom in height, or little' 
more. It grows wild in foft marfliy places in Jamaica; 
and bears a fine fweet-feented fruit, of no difagreeable 
flavour; but it is.faid to be a ftrong narcotic, and is not 
eaten on that account. It is called alligator-apple. The 
wood of this tree is fo very foft, even after it is dried, that 
it is-frequently ufed by the country-people inftead of corks, 
to flop up their jugs and calabafbes; whence it has now 
univerfally obtained the name of coik-wood in Jamaica. 
7. Annona triloba, or trifid-fruited cuftard-apple : leaves 
elliptic, acute, fmooth; flowers pendulous, cainpanulate; 
calyxes ovate; petals many, oval. The trunk of this tree is 
feldom bigger than the fmall of a man’s leg, and rifes ten 
or twelve feet high, having afmooth greenifh-brown bark- 
In March, when the leaves begin to fprout, its blofloms 
begin to appear, confiding each of fix greenifh-white pe¬ 
tals. The fruit grows in clufters of three, and fometimes 
four, together; they are at firft green, and when ripe yel- . 
low, covered with a thin fmooth (kin, which contains a 
yellow pulp, of a fweet lufeious tafte; in the middle of 
which lie, in two rows, twelve feeds,.divided by fo manv 
thin membranes. All parts of the tree have a rank, if 
not a fetid, fmell; and the fruit is relifbed by few, except 
negroes. Thefe trees grow' ufually in low ftiady fwamps, 
and in a. very fat foil. Mr. Miller obferves, that this is 
rather a flirub than a tree, and that the flowers, at lead' 
in England, are of a rufty purple colour. He mentions, 
that the largeft plant he had feen, was in the duke of Ar- 
gyle’s garden at Whitton, near Hounflow, which produ¬ 
ced flowers the beginning of May. It is a native of the 
Bahama illands, Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia ; and 
the feeds are frequently brought to England by the title 
of papaw-tree. Introduced here in 1736 by Collinfon. 
8. Annona glabra, or fmooth cuftard-apple : leaves- 
lanceolate-ovate, fruits conoid fmooth. This flirub, or 
fmall tree, grows to the height of about fixteen feet, co¬ 
vered with a fmooth greenifh bark ; the leaves are thick, 
ftiff", and fnaped like thofe of a lemon. The fruit is co¬ 
vered with a fmooth yellowifli-green (kin ; the pulp is of 
the confidence of a ripe pear, and contains many conical 
brown, 
