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Rollinia mucosa, Baill. (Annona mucosa, Jacq.). CachiMan Morveux. A
Rollinia sieberi, A. DC. Cachiman Montagne. A small tree first
small tree first described by Jacquin from specimens growing
described and figured from the island of Trinidad and erroneously
referred by its collector to the common custard-apple, Annona
reticulata, to which its fr. and lvs. bear a certain resemblance: lvs.
custard-apple, Annona reticulata. Lvs. oblong, pointed at the apex and
oval-oblong, acute at apex and base, usually 5-6 in. long and 2-3 in.
base: corolla gamopetalous in the form of a roundish body from which 3
broad, thin, above puberulous with the nerves pilose, beneath paler
oblong lobes spread outward in such a way that it not inaptly
and more pilose, narrowed at the base into pilose petioles 1/4in.
long, some of them at the base of the branches broadly ovate and
obtuse, about 1 in. long: peduncles lf .-opposed, 1-fld., 1-1 2/5in.
long, bearing 2 small ovate-acute bracteoles, one near the base, the
in his Flora of the French Antilles has kept the two species distinct.
other about the middle: corolla-wings laterally compressed,
Linear-oblong, rounded at the apex, diverging, straight or curving
slightly upward: fr., according to Pere Duss, usually larger than that
of Annona squamosa, the surface divided into pronounced raised
squamose areoles rounded at the tips; pulp fleshy, nearly white, melting in the mouth, slightly viscous, with a sugary agreeable flavor. Type collected by Sieber (No. 96), in the De Candolle Herbarium.
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