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scribed as verrucose and resembling a strawberry, instead of echinate or muricate 
like that of the true A. sericea Dunal growing in French Guiana (fig. 42). It may be 
regarded as a broad-leaved representative of A. sericea, growing on the Island of Trini- 
dad, intermediate, perhaps between A. sericea and A. jamaicensis Sprague, just as 
A. angustifolia Huber may be regarded as a narrow-leaved representative of the same 
species growing in Brazil, intermediate, perhaps, between <A. sericea and A. paludosa 
Aubl. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 88.—Branch, showing lower surface of leaves and base of old, extra-axillary 
peduncle from which flower has been broken. Photographed from type in Kew Herbarium. Natural size. 
4. Annona longipes Safford, sp. nov. 
LONG-STEMMED ANNONA OF VERACRUZ. 
A tree 10 meters high; young branches slender, clothed with dense long soft fulvous 
pubescence, at length glabrate, with cinnamon-colored or reddish brown bark bearing 
numerous white lenticels; leaves distichous; petioles 8 to 13 mm. long, densely 
clothed with long fulvous velvety pubescence; blades ovate, 9 to 14 cm. long and 
4 to 6.5 cm. broad, acute or acuminate at the apex, usually rounded at the base, 
membranaceous, pellucid-punctulate, olive green when dry, sparsely pubescent 
above except along the impressed hairy midrib, clothed beneath with sparse white 
hairs except along the fulvous or pale rufous midrib and lateral nerves (12 to 14 on 
each side), these densely hairy, somewhat prominent beneath and connected by 
oblique veins scarcely visible above; lower leaves of flowering branches smaller 
than the upper and sometimes obtuse or retuse at the apex; peduncles solitary, extra- 
axillary, very long (30 to 42 mm.), persistently slender, clothed with persistent dense 
fulvous velvety pubescence with a scale-like pubescent bracteole at the base and a 
second smaller bracteole below the middle; flowers not observed; fruit shaped like a 
strawberry, broadly conoid, rounded at the apex, 25 mm. long and 21 mm. in diam- 
eter, the surface finely ferrugineous-tomentose, without projections but covered with 
gibbous areoles corresponding to the individual carpels, the latter closely cemented 
together and terminating each in an inconspicuous appressed point; seeds asym- 
metrically obovate, often obliquely truncate at the apex and with a swollen caruncle 
at the base, light brown, smooth, 10 to 11 mm. long and 5 to 6 mm. broad, easily 
separable from the scant pulp. (PLATE 89.) 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no, 45591, collected on the slope of a hill 
near the outlet of Lake Catemaco, Canton de los Tuxtlas, southeastern Veracruz, 
Mexico, April 28, 1894, by E. W. Nelson (no. 430). 
Disrrisution: Southern Veracruz, near the coast of the Gulf of Campeachy, at an 
altitude of 300 meters. Known only from the type locality. 
Although undoubtedly related to the silky annonas, this species is separated from 
them by the dense, erect, velvety, fulvous or pale rufous pubescence of its younger 
parts, which are never appressed ferrugineous sericeous, as in A. sericea and its close 
allies. It is also set apart by its fruit, which is not echinate nor muricate, and above 
all by its long, persistently slender and velvety peduncles. 
EXPLANATION oF PLatE 89.—Drawing, by Mr. A. B. Boettcher, of fruit-bearing branch; also longi- 
tudinal section of fruit and seed. Natural size. 
5. Annona holosericea Safford, sp. nov. 
VELVETY ANNONA OF NIcoyYA. 
A small tree; ultimate branches densely fulvous-tomentose when young, at length 
glabrate, with grayish brown bark, this plicate-striate when dry and bearing very small 
inconspicuous lenticels; old leaf scars prominent, each bearing a tuft of fulvous 
tomentum; leaves distichous; petioles 4 to 5 mm. long, densely fulvous-tomentose; 
blades orbicular to obovate, rounded or cuneate at the base, the lowermost on the 
