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connective, the latter papillose and bearing stiff erect or spreading somewhat curved 
acute hairs, abundant on the immature stamens and visible under an ordinary lens, 
at length more or less deciduous; carpels including the styles about as long as the 
stamens, club-shaped, terminating in a swollen tuberculate stigma; fruit not observed. 
(PLATE 87.) 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 703145, collected near Rockstone, 
British Guiana, April, 1899, by G. S. Jenman (no. 7546). This specimen was kindly 
sent to the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Mr. John F. Waby, acting government 
botanist at Georgetown, Demerara. 
Distreisution: British Guiana and northern Brazil. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: British Gurana—Near Rockstone, April, 1899, Jenman 
7546 (type). Brazil: Barra do Rio Negro [Mandos], October, 1851, R. Spruce 1868 
(in Herb. De Candolle). 
Annona jenmanit, though closely related to A. sericea, has its peduncles normally 
geminate or fascicled and is readily distinguished from the latter species by the dull 
chocolate brown, tomentose indument of the lower surface of the leaves, very much 
like that of A. paludosa, in which the midrib and lateral nerves are not conspicu- 
ous. In A. sericea the contrast of the bright reddish-sericeous midrib and nerves with 
the tomentose area between them is quite striking. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 87.—Flowering branches, showing extra-axillary, clustered flowers. Natural 
size. Figs. a, a’, carpels with hairy ovaries and club-shaped styles terminating in tuberculate stigmas; 
b, b’’, mature stamens, ventral view, with the heads of the connectives partly denuded of hair; b’, im- 
mature stamen, dorsal view, showing the two parallel pollen sacs, dehiscent along their median line, 
and the heads of the connective bearing spreading, stiff hairs. Figs. a to 6’, scale 20; after camera lucida 
drawings of the author. 
8. Annona trinitensis Safford, sp. nov. 
SILKY ANNONA OF THE ISLAND OF TRINIDAD. 
Annona sericea Sprague, Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 700. 1905, in part, not Dunal, 1817. 
A tree 5 or 6 meters high; branches rather slender, the younger sericeous-tomentose 
with ferrugineous hairs; petioles 4 to 10 mm. long, sericeous-tomentose; blades ovate, 
elliptical, or obovate, obtuse or shortly and rather obtusely acuminate at the apex, 
cuneate orrounded atthe base, 9.5to 15cm. long, 5.5 to6.5 cm. broad, puberulousabove 
except along the pubescent midrib, dark chestnut brown, clothed beneath with brown 
tomentulum or pubescence except along the midrib and nerves, these sericeous- 
tomentose; lateral nerves 12 to 16 on each side, slightly curved, not impressed above, 
prominent beneath; peduncle extra-axillary, solitary, 1-flowered, tomentose, at length 
glabrate, with a bracteole at or below the middle; flowers 3-petaled; calyx lobes 
broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, sericeous-tomentose on the outside, within sparsely 
sericeous at the base, elsewhere glabrate; petals ovate, obtuse, 18 to 20 mm. long, 
15 mm. broad, sericeous on the outside; filaments 0.5 mm. long; anthers 1.5 to 1.75 
mm. long; connective above the anthers broadly expanded into a head, papillose and 
bearing long hairs (Sprague); lower part of the style together with the ovary 1.25 
to 1.5 mm. long, the upper part 0.75 to 1.25 mm. long; stigma broadly and obtusely 
ovoid, 0.25 to 0.35 mm. long; fruit similar to that of a strawberry (Fragaria vesca), 2.5 
to 3.5 cm. long, about 2 cm. in diameter, warty; seeds 4.5 to 5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. 
broad. (PLATE 88.) 
Type in the Kew Herbarium, collected on the Island of Trinidad, 1877-80, by 
August Fendler (no. 205). 
DisTRIBUTION: Known only from type locality. 
The type of this species was referred by Sprague to Annona sericea Dunal of 
French Guiana. From this species, however, it is separated by its relatively 
broader and more obtuse leaves, described by Sprague as “‘breviter obtusiuscule 
acuminata” at the apex, which is not true of A. sericea Dunal, and by its fruit, de- 
