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2 TRAVELS IN UPPER
rare and very acceptable present. The fruit of
this species of the musa is known in the French
West-India islands by the name of figuebanane,
and at Cayenne by that of bacove*. It is less
insipid, and more agreeable to the taste, than
that of the plantain-tree-}-.
Growing with these exotics I noticed another
free, which also I had seen in America, and the
fruit of which is equally pleasing to the taste and
smell. The sweet-sop, or custard-apple, planted
in these gardens, attains the height of a middling
tree^. The fruit is covered with little papillary
elevations, much resemhling those of a fircone.
When it is ripe, its colour is green mingled with
* Musa sjiadicc nutanle, floribus ahortientibus terminalibus deci-
duis.....Musa sapientum. Lin.—Musa sa/ucntum, spadicc 7tutante,
Paribus masculis deciduis. .... Baccbc. Aublet, Hist, des Plantes
<ie la Guiane, tome ii. p. 930. Musa fructu cucumerino
breviori. Plum. Nov. Gen. 24.
•f- Musa spadicc nulante, flmibus aborlientibus pcrsistcntibus.....
Musa fiaradisiaca, Lin.—Aublet, loco supra citato.—Musa
fructu cucumerino longiori. Plum. Nov. Gen. 24. [These two
trees are cobfoundea under one common name, bananicr, by the
Trench : in English their names are distinct.—T.]
% It is the species described by Plumier, under the name of
guanabanus fructu comileo, and by Linntcus under that of
ar.Htna squamosa. Forskal describes it in his Flora Egyptiaco-
Arabica, and calk it anona glabra, kescka, foliis dlipticis, fiuctu
ghbeso*
yellow.
rare and very acceptable present. The fruit of
this species of the musa is known in the French
West-India islands by the name of figuebanane,
and at Cayenne by that of bacove*. It is less
insipid, and more agreeable to the taste, than
that of the plantain-tree-}-.
Growing with these exotics I noticed another
free, which also I had seen in America, and the
fruit of which is equally pleasing to the taste and
smell. The sweet-sop, or custard-apple, planted
in these gardens, attains the height of a middling
tree^. The fruit is covered with little papillary
elevations, much resemhling those of a fircone.
When it is ripe, its colour is green mingled with
* Musa sjiadicc nutanle, floribus ahortientibus terminalibus deci-
duis.....Musa sapientum. Lin.—Musa sa/ucntum, spadicc 7tutante,
Paribus masculis deciduis. .... Baccbc. Aublet, Hist, des Plantes
<ie la Guiane, tome ii. p. 930. Musa fructu cucumerino
breviori. Plum. Nov. Gen. 24.
•f- Musa spadicc nulante, flmibus aborlientibus pcrsistcntibus.....
Musa fiaradisiaca, Lin.—Aublet, loco supra citato.—Musa
fructu cucumerino longiori. Plum. Nov. Gen. 24. [These two
trees are cobfoundea under one common name, bananicr, by the
Trench : in English their names are distinct.—T.]
% It is the species described by Plumier, under the name of
guanabanus fructu comileo, and by Linntcus under that of
ar.Htna squamosa. Forskal describes it in his Flora Egyptiaco-
Arabica, and calk it anona glabra, kescka, foliis dlipticis, fiuctu
ghbeso*
yellow.