THE FLOWERING BRANCH AND MATURE LEAF OF ASIMINA TRILOBA

M SIZE. (AFTER J. U, AND ©. G. LLOYD.) as i minier (2d def.) » Anona, formed by the union of several fleshy fruits. O, no; 02, not; 03, whole; Th, thin; Th2, the; U, like oo in too; U2, blue; U$, lull; U4, full; U4, urn; US, like ü (German). 41.] 2. A genus of anonaceous trees or shrubs, made by Adanson, much resembling the genus Anona, with which it was formerly united. [B, 19, 3iJ—A. triloba (Duna. Fr., as i minier, mon in. Syn.: Anona triloba [Linnæus], Orchidocarpum arietinum [Michaux], Porcelia triloba [Per so on], Uvaria tritoba [Torrey, Gray]. ‘The North American papaw, or custard-apple (to be distinguished from the true papaw of tropical America [Carica papaya]); a shrub or small tree common in the Ohio Valley, rare in western New York and central and eastern Pennsylvania, and thence south to Florida and west.to Kansas. The ripe fruit, somewhat resembling the banana, is edible; the green fruit and all parts of the plant contain a volatile oil of a disagreeable odor; the seeds contain a characteristic alkaloid, a simi nine. [J. U. and C. G. Lloyd, * Drugs and Med. of N. Am.” Sept., 1886, p. 49.]