SAFFORD—CLASSIFICATION OF ANNONA, 35 
straight glossy translucent whitish hairs; stamens numerous, crowded, 2.8 to 3 
mm. long; pollen sacs 2.1 mm. long, the pollen orange-colored in 2 columns of 
tetrads in each sac; connective minutely muriculate, swollen at the extremity 
into a depressed cap, apparently light brown and velvety, but as seen under the 
microscope muriculate with fine glossy points or short straight diaphanous 
hairs, carpels numerous, the ovary pale rufous- 
sericeous; styles linear-oblong, minutely granular 
on the sides, when mature terminating in a swollen, 
minutely tuberculate extremity; fruit ovoid, yellow, 
tomentose, about 6 mm. long and 4 cm. in diameter, 
muricate with slender acute fleshy points and usually 
bearing the persistent calyx; seeds small, about 8 
mm. long and 4 mm. broad, smooth, ovoid, slightly 
compressed, with a conspicuous caruncle at the base; 
pulp soft and fleshy, edible, but with less flavor k 
than that of A. squamosa. (Puates 17, 18, B. fia. 42.—Stamens of Annona 
Fieures 14, 41-43.) paludosa. Left hand, dorsal 
TYPE LocaLiTy : “ Habitat in pratis paludosis Cou- Vie» Showing pollen sacs ; 
; right hand, ventral view. 
rou & Timoutou,” coast of French Guiana. Scale 10. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known certainly only from French 
Guiana, in marshy situations at Kouroutou on the coast, west of Cayenne (type 
locality), but occurring also, according to Sagot, in the interior. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Frencu Guiana: Without definite locality, Leprieur in 1840 (Herb. De 
\ Candolle, no. 11, with geminate flowers not quite mature); Leprieur 
in 1834 (Berlin Herb. ex Mus. Paris, no. 238), with immature flower bud. 
LocaL NAMES: Guimamé, according to Sagot; Corossol sau- 
yage, according to Aublet (French Guiana). 
Although Annona paludosa has a 6-petaled corolla it re- 
sembles A. sericea, in which there are normally but 3 petals. 
The latter, however, as Sagot has pointed out, sometimes 
has 6 petals in rainy seasons, as though making special pro- 
vision for guarding its essential parts from moisture. The 
only figure of A. paludosa known to the author is the original 
illustration of Aublet (see fig. 41) which, like Dunal’s figure 
of A. sericea, but poorly represents the flower and the essen- 
Mic. 43.—Carpelsof tial parts. On this account a photograph of the species from 
eoathe carpel its type locality is here presented (pl. 17). It is interesting 
b, inner. Scale 13. to note that, though this specimen has geminate flowers, the 
smaller flower of the pair is abnormal, having only 2 calyx 
lobes, 2 outer petals, and probably 2 inner petals. 
Though listed by Martius as occurring in Brazil, it is quite certain that he 
never saw a specimen from that country and that he gives a description of the 
plant entirely at second hand. His statement that the peduncles are solitary 
and without bracteoles is incorrect. In the original description of Aublet they 
are correctly described as solitary or two together and provided at the base 
and also near the middle with a “seale”; though Aublet also is mistaken in 
saying that they issue from a leaf axil. They are extra-axillary, as in most 
other species of Annona, and in the present specimen are opposite a leaf. It 
appears that the second or smaller flower issues from the basal scalelike 
bracteole of the first flower and bears no bracteole near the middle of the 
