272 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 
7. Annona cercocarpa Safford, sp. nov. 
ANONCILLO OF THE MaGpALENA RIVER. 
Anona echinata? Triana & Planch. Prodr. Fl. Novogran. 28. 1862, not A. echinata 
Dunal, 1817. 
Branchlets at first ferrugineous-pubescent, soon becoming glabrate, dark reddish 
brown to black, set with whitish lenticels; petioles 4 to 5 mm. long, broadly channeled 
above, at first appressed-pubescent, at length glabrate; blades membranaceous, punc- 
tulate, those on the upper part of the flowering branches ovate to obovate-oblong, acute 
or acuminate at the apex and rounded or cuneate at the base, 9 to 9.5 cm, long and 
3.5 to 3.9 cm. broad, with 10 
to 12 secondary nerves on 
each side the midrib; lower 
leaves shorter and broader, 
6.7 cm. long and 4.2 ecm. 
broad, with 9 to 11 lateral 
nerves on each side; lower- 
most leaves smallest, broadly 
cordate, 2.4 cm. long and 2.3 
cm. broad; all of them at 
— first pubescent above, dense- 
i ly so along the impressed 
midrib and lateral nerves, at 
length glabrate; beneath con- 
(, ers not observed; calyx lobes 
broadly triangular, acute; car- 
/\’ pels numerous; fruit spher- 
pilose, terminating each in 
Fic. 44.—Leafy twig and fruit of Annona cercocarpa, the fruit a slender appressed-hirsute 
somewhat enlarged. a, Tail-like tip of carpel; , seeds. a, Scale 5; more or less curled tail; seeds 
and a conspicuous caruncle at the base. (Pate 94. FIGURE 44.) 
Type in the Kew Herbarium (from Herbarium Hookerianum, 1867), collected at 
San Pablo on the Magdalena River, Province of Mompox, New Grenada [Colombia], 
spicuously veined, with the 
veins at right angles to the 
secondary nerves, these to- 
; gether with the midrib 
clothed with short pale ru- 
fous pubescence, the re- 
mainder of the blade be- 
oid, about 28 mm. in diame- 
>, slightly enlarged. obovate or obpyramidal, 5 to 
1851-1857, by J. Triana; duplicate in De Candolle Herbarium. 
‘ { | “a neath sparsely rufous-pubes- 
r cent; peduncles solitary, ex- 
tra-axillary, 17 mm. long in 
\ fruit, at length glabrate; flow- 
ter, the component carpels 
7mm. long by 4 mm. broad, somewhat compressed, with a smooth hard brown testa 
DistRiBuTION: Known only from type locality. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 94.—Photograph of type specimen. 
