SAFFORD—CLASSIFICATION OF ANNONA, 29 
short pale rufous hairs; carpels forming a dense cluster (gyncecium) at the 
apex of the conoid torus, the ovaries linear, distinct, 2 to 2.7 mm. long, clothed 
with appressed ferrugineous silky hairs; styles articulate, falling off after 
pollination; fruit not observed. (PLatr 11. Fieures 38, 39.) 
Fic, 388.—Stamens of 
Annona salzmanni. 
Leaves and flower of Annena coriacea, Scale 13. 
Scale 4. 
Fig, 37, 
Type in the De Candolle Herbarium, collected in the vicinity of Bahia, Brazil, 
on a dry sandy plain (‘“‘in sabulosis aridis, an culta ? Arbor superne ramosissima, 
trunco crasso, altitudine mediocri.”), in 1830, by Philipp 
Salzmann (no. 5).* 
DISTRIBUTION: Dry sandy plains in the vicinity of 
Bahia and southward. , 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Type specimen as cited. 
LocaAL NAMES: Aratici do campo; Araticfi dos lisos 
(“araticu of the plains”). 
Annona salzmanni A. DC. bears a certain superficial 
resemblance to A. coriacea Mart. (fig. 37) in its cori- 
aceous leaves and its thick-petaled flowers. It is, how- 
ever, sharply distinct from the latter. Its leaves are 
Fra, 39.—Ovaries of devoid of the minute pits in the axils of the veins, and 
yenenmaprinurin the lateral nerves together with the reticulated veins 
Seale 13. es between them are remarkable in being impressed on 
both faces. The stamens of A. salzmanni (fig. 38) are 
only 4 mm. long, while those of A. coriacea are 6 to 6.5 mm. long. The ovaries 
(fig. 39) are densely clothed with ascending, bright, ferrugineous hairs, It is 
strange that this quite distinct and valid species is absent from more recent 
collections of plants from its native region. Its fruit is quite unknown. 
De Candolle was inclined to place this species close to A. glabra L. (A. 
palustris L.), but it differs from that in its carpels and inner petals. It can not 
1Salzmann, Philipp. An enthusiastic botanist and entomologist, in honor of 
whom De Candolle named the rubiaceous genus Salzmannia and to whom he 
dedicated the fourth volume of the Prodromus; born at Erfurt, February 27, 
1781, died at Montpelier, May 11, 1851. See August Rose, Bot. Zeit. 11: 4. 1853. 
