SAFFORD—ANNONA SERICEA AND ITS ALLIES, 267 
* In the original description of Annona sericea by Dunal the collector’s name is not 
given nor does it appear in De Candolle’s Prodromus. It is, however, to be found in 
the Systema.! The type is in an excellent state of preservation, and the drawing 
of it here presented (pl. 86) proves that Dunal’s figure is fairly accurate, showing the 
flower to be extra-axillary, though he erroneously describes it as axillary, and the 
peduncles possibly to have been geminate, as shown in plate 85. He does not, 
however, figure the details of the essential parts of the flower, a deficiency supplied 
in plate 86. The flower of the type itself (see pl. 91, A), kindly lent for the occasion 
by M. Augustin de Candolle, is in excellent condition and has not the least appearance 
of being, as it actually is, more than a century old. In this type specimen the carpels 
and stamens are cemented in place by the glue-like exudation from the stigmas, to 
which some of the pollen grains still adhere. 
The type plant collected by Patris formed part of Lhéritier’s herbarium.? In 
another specimen of the same collection (pl. 85) and bearing a similar label the 
peduncles are geminate. The leaves are exactly similar to those of the type speci- 
men, the lower surface of the young ones being covered with reddish silky hairs, 
while the older ones are subtomentose beneath and of an olivaceous color between 
the nerves, sharply contrasting with the bright reddish silky-tomentose midrib and 
lateral nerves. 
Annona sericea is represented in Brazil by a narrow-leaved form, A. angustifolia 
Huber, to which reference has already been made. A broad-leaved ally on the 
Island of Trinidad, which was included by Sprague in A. sericea, is below segregated 
as A. trinitensis. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES 85, 86.—PIl. 85, photograph of specimen from type locality in the De Can- 
dolle Prodromus Herbarium, showing geminate peduncles. Natural size. Pl. 86,drawingoftype. Nat- 
ural size. Fig. a, flower of same with two petals truncated and one removed to show the essential parts; 
b, stamens of same showing the stiff hairs borne on the terminal, swollen connective; c, carpel composed 
of hairy ovary and style terminating in a minutely tuberculate stigma; d, apex of leaf, showing silky 
indument of lower surface. Fig. a, scale 3; band c, scale 15; d, natural size. 
2. Annona jenmanii Safford, sp. nov. 
SILKY ANNONA OF BrITISH GUIANA. 
A shrub or small tree; young branches slender, clothed with dense appressed 
ferrugineous hairs; leaves distichous; petioles 6 to 10 mm. long, frequently re- 
curved, ferrugineous-sericeous; blades obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, the lowermost 
on the branchlets lanceolate, smaller than the succeeding ones but not broad and retuse 
as in A. sericea, 6 cm. long by 2 cm. broad, the larger 10 to 19 cm. long by 2.5 to 5.5 
cm. broad, gradually acuminate at the apex and acute or cuneate at the base, mem- 
branaceous, pellucid-punctulate, sparsely pubescent above except along the impressed 
hairy midrib, at length glabrescent, clothed beneath. with persistent chocolate-brown 
velvety pubescence except along the ferrugineous-sericeous midrib and parallel 
slightly curved lateral nerves (20 to 25 on each side); flowers normally 3-petaled; 
peduncles geminate or fascicled, extra-axillary, usually recurved, 10 to 15 mm. long, 
clothed with ferrugineous appressed hairs and with a minute broadly ovate obtuse 
bracteole near the middle and one at the base; unopened flower-buds 12 to 15 mm. 
in diameter, spheroid; calyx lobes broadly triangular, shortly and abruptly acuminate, 
clothed on the outside like the peduncle with appressed ferrugineous hairs; petals 
broadly ovate or suborbicular, obtuse (14 to 16 mm. long by 16 to 18 mm. broad), thick 
and coriaceous, clothed on the outside with fine dense velvety ferrugineous pubescence 
and on the inside with fulvous tomentulum; receptacle convex, clothed with short 
stiff fulvous hairs; stamens numerous, crowded, 1.9 to 2.4 mm. long, with a short 
broad filament and linear parallel pollen sacs surmounted by the swollen expanded 
1 DC. Reg. Veg. Syst. 1: 471. 1818. 2 See footnote 1, p. 266 above. 
