I need not remind my readers that no tree growing elsewhere than on the coast has been found truly indigenous at once in tropical Asia, Africa, and America.[834] The result of my researches renders such a fact almost impossible, and if a tree were robust enough to extend over such an area, it would be extremely common in all tropical countries. “Moreover, historical and philological facts tend also to confirm the theory of an American origin. The details given by Rumphius[835] show that _Anona squamosa_ was a plant newly cultivated in most of the islands of the Malay Archipelago. Forster does not mention the cultivation of any Anonacea in the small islands of the Pacific.[836] Rheede[837] says that _A. squamosa_ is an exotic in Malabar, but was brought to India, first by the Chinese and the Arabs, afterwards by the Portuguese. It is certainly cultivated in China and in Cochin-China,[838] and in the Philippine Isles,[839] but we do not know from what epoch. It is doubtful whether the Arabs cultivate it.[840] It was cultivated in India in Roxburgh’s day;[841] he had not seen the wild plant, and only mentions one common name in a modern language, the Bengali _ata_, which is already in Rheede. Later the name _gunda-gatra_[842] was believed to be Sanskrit, but Dr. Royle[843] having consulted Wilson, the famous author of the Sanskrit dictionary, touching the antiquity of this name, he replied that it was taken from the _Sabda Chanrika_, a comparatively modern compilation. The names of _ata_, _ati_, are found in Rheede and Rumphius.[844] This is doubtless the foundation of Saint-Hilaire’s argument; but a nearly similar name is given to _Anona squamosa_ in Mexico. This name is _ate_, _ahate di Panucho_, found in Hernandez[845] with two similar and rather poor figures which may be attributed either to _A. squamosa_, as Dunal[846] thinks, or to _A. cherimolia_, according to Martius.[847] Oviedo uses the name _anon_.[848] It is very possible that the name _ata_ was introduced into Brazil from Mexico and the neighbouring countries. It may also, I confess, have come from the Portuguese colonies in the East Indies. Martius says, however, that the species was imported from the West India Islands.[849] I do not know whether he had any proof of this, or whether he speaks on the authority of Oviedo’s work, which he quotes and which I cannot consult. Oviedo’s article, translated by Marcgraf,[850] describes _A. squamosa_ without speaking of its origin.