This fruit-tree,[857] introduced into all the colonies in tropical countries is wild in the West Indies; at least, its existence has been proved in the islands of Cuba, St. Domingo, Jamaica, and several of the smaller islands.[858] It is sometimes naturalized on the continent of South America near dwellings.[859] André brought specimens from the district of Cauca in New Granada, but he does not say they were wild, and I see that Triana (_Prodr. Fl. Granat._) only mentions it as cultivated. +Custard Apple+ in the West Indies, +Bullock’s Heart+ in the East Indies—_Anona reticulata_, Linnæus. This Anona, figured in Descourtilz, _Flore Médicale des Antilles_, ii. pl. 82, and in the _Botanical Magazine_, pl. 2912, is wild in Cuba, Jamaica, St. Vincent, Guadeloupe, Santa Cruz, and Barbados,[860] and also in the island of Tobago in the Bay of Panama,[861] and in the province of Antioquia in New Granada.[862] If it is wild in the last-named localities as well as in the West Indies, its area probably extends into several states of Central America and of New Granada. Although the bullock’s heart is not much esteemed as a fruit, the species has been introduced into most tropical colonies. Rheede and Rumphius found it in plantations in Southern Asia. According to Welwitsch, it has naturalized itself from cultivation in Angola, in Western Africa,[863] and this has also taken place in British India.[864] +Chirimoya+—_Anona Cherimolia_, Lamarck. The chirimoya is not so generally cultivated in the colonies as the preceding species, although the fruit is excellent. This is probably the reason that there is no illustration of the fruit better than that of Feuillée (_Obs._, iii. pl. 17), while the flower is well represented in pl. 2011 of the _Botanical Magazine_, under the name of _A. tripetala_. In 1855, I wrote as follows, touching the origin of the species:[865] “The chirimoya is mentioned by Lamarck and Dunal as growing in Peru; but Feuillée, who was the first to speak of it,[866] says that it is cultivated. Macfadyen[867] says it abounds in the Port Royal Mountains, Jamaica; but he adds that it came originally from Peru, and must have been introduced long ago, whence it appears that the species is cultivated in the higher plantations, rather than wild. Sloane does not mention it. Humboldt and Bonpland saw it cultivated in Venezuela and New Granada; Martius in Brazil,[868] where the seeds had been introduced from Peru. The species is cultivated in the Cape Verde Islands, and on the coast of Guinea,[869] but it does not appear to have been introduced into Asia. Its American origin is evident. I might even go further, and assert that it is a native of Peru, rather than of New Granada or Mexico. It will probably be found wild in one of these countries. Meyen has not brought it from Peru.”[870]