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SAFFORD—CLASSIFICATION OF ANNONA. 81 
and imbedded in fragrant mango-flavored orange-colored fibrous pulp. (PLATES 
12-14. Fiaurer 40, a.) 
Described by Mocifio & Sessé from a specimen without fruit, bearing flowers 
and young leaves; description published by Dunal as cited above, accompanied 
by a plate engraved by Moquin. ‘ Hab. in Mexico,” without definite locality. 
DISTRIBUTION: State of Veracruz, Mexico, to Panama, and northern South 
America. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Mexico: Cordoba, Veracruz, H. Kerber, July, 1882 (Berlin Herb.), photo- 
graph of globose fruit covered with sharp hooked protuberances, C. B. 
Waite 1515; Omealea, Veracruz, seeds, C. B. Waite, 8. P. I. no. 31891'; 
Tehuantepec, seeds, W. W. Miller, S. P. I. no. 340507; Tapachula, 
Soconosco, State of Chiapas, photograph, Guy N. Collins 4007. 
Costa Rica: Nicoya, along roadsides, Jonduz 13932; Puerto Jestis, Nicoya, 
Cook & Doyle 745, with photograph 5814; El Coyolar, near Punta 
Arenas, alt. 150 meters, fruit, flowers, and leaves, 
Wercklé, S. P. I. no. 31929.* 
PANAMA: Matachin, on Panama Railway, Hayes, 
September 8, 1860; without definite locality, Du- 
chassaing ; Hospital grounds, Ancon, Pittier 3955; 
Forests of San Felix, eastern Chiriqui, Pittier 
5749, — 
VENEZUELA: Above Dos Caminos, east of Caracas, 
alt. 850 meters, Pittier 6221. Fic, 40.—(a) Seed of 
Loca NAMES: Cabeza de negro, or “negro-head” (Vera- iB) Oe bo hahatens 
cruz) ; Cabeza de ilama, or “old woman’s head” (Vera- cata. Natural size. 
cruz and Oaxaca); Chincua, Tlama de Tehuantepec 
(Oxaca) ; Soncoya, Soncolla, Sencuya (Central America); Toreta (Panama) ; 
Manirote (Venezuela). 
Annona purpurea has hitherto been imperfectly known. At the time of its 
flowering it is almost devoid of leaves. The fruit was lacking in the type 
material and it has been confused, on account of its protuberances, with that 
of the soursop (A. muricata), the resemblance between the flowers of the two 
species adding to the confusion. Those of the present species, however, are 
easily distinguished by their very short, thick peduncle, and the fruit by its 
yellow fibrous pulp and large seeds (fig. 40). The common name “cabeza de 
ilama” (‘old woman’s head”) applied to the fruit on the isthmus of 
Tehuantepec, is apt to cause it to be confused with that of A. diversifolia,’ 
called “ilama” at Colima and Acapulco; but the latter species is easily distin- 
guished by the persistent leaflike, amplexicaul bracts at the base of its long 
peduncle, its much smaller leaves rounded at the apex, the rose-tinted pulp of 
its fruit, the shape of the latter which resembles that of a pineapple cheese, 
and its hard, nutlike, subterete seeds. 
The identity of Annona manirote H. B. K. with A. purpurea Moc. & Sessé 
was suspected by the writer, as the latter corresponds closely with the de- 
scription of the leaves and fruit of the former. In the type material of A. 
manirote flowers were lacking. These, however, have been recently collected 
by Professor Henry Pittier above Dos Caminos, a short distance east of 
Caracas, at an elevation of 850 meters above sea level (pl. 18). Professor 
Pittier collected both old leaves of the preceding season, which had nearly all 
* Collections of the Division of Seed and Plant Introduction, Bureau of Plant 
Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
?Annona diversifolia Safford, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 2: 118. 1912. 
