38 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
villous on the outside, 3-lobed, the divisions ovate-acuminate with a midrib or 
median keel; corolla depressed-spherical in bud, bowl-shaped and about 2.5 em. 
broad when expanded, gamopetalous, 6-lobed, with 3 narrow lobes correspond- 
ing to inner petals alternating with 3 broad lobes which overlap their edges, 
corolla lobes rufous-pubescent, much larger than the calyx divisions, the outer 
ones broadly ovate, acute, pale yellow or whitish, with a purple spot within 
near the base; inner lobes oblong-elliptical or obovate-oblong, much narrower 
than the outer and somewhat shorter, shortly acuminate at the apex and keeled 
on the back, pale yellow or whitish on the outside, spotted with purple or en- 
tirely purple within; torus consisting of an outer convex or hemispherical ring, 
and an inner cone bearing the gynecium, the ring more or less pubescent be- 
tween the bases of the thickly crowded stamens and surrounded by a fringe of 
fulvous hairs; stamens pale yellow, 2 
to 2.5 mm. long, with flat filaments 
scabrous with minute short appressed 
hairs, the connectives broadly expanded 
above the parallel sacs into an echinu- 
late hood; carpels free, closely crowded 
into a cone-shaped gyncecium issuing 
from the center of the convex torus; 
ovaries prism-shaped, about 1 mm. long, 
4-angled, slightly curved or straight, 
usually with a line of minute ascend- 
ing hairs on each angle and a few 
similar hairs on the faces of the prism; 
styles about equal to the ovaries in 
length, fleshy, the outer ones on the 
periphery of the gynecium swollen and 
subeylindrical, the inner ones quad- 
rangular-prismatic, all of them becom- 
ing cemented together after pollination 
and very soon falling off, leaving the 
conoid mass of ovaries, the latter coales- 
cing into a fleshy mass (syncarpium) ; 
=. eye fruit about the size of a horsechestnut 
Fic. 46.—Geminate peduncles and other de- or hen’s egg, ovate-globose, obtuse, ir- 
tails of Annona cornifolia. a, Ovary; regularly squamose and pubescent when 
Oe a Main figure, scale 2; 4, b, immature, at length glabrate or glabres- 
cent and reddish or orange-red, contain- 
ing sweetish edible pulp. (Piates 18, A, 20. Ficure 46.) 
Type material collected “in campis herbosis, prope urbem Sorocaba,” Prov- 
ince of Sao Paulo, Brazil, December, 1819, by Augustin de St. Hilaire; also “in 
parte occidentali provinciae Minas Geraes dicta Certao de Rio de San Fran- 
cisco, praecipue prope praedium 8. Eligii et pagos Contendas et Formigas.” 
DIstTRIBUTION: Brazil: Provinces of Sio Paulo and Minas Geraes, in grassy 
meadows. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Brazil: “‘Campos prés Sorocaba,” St. Hilaire in 1828, with solitary flower 
borne at the apex of a simple stem (type collection, in Herb. De Can- 
dolle, attached tag numbered, 1261); Cuyab4, Endlich 4b (Berlin 
Herb.) ; Ipanema, Sellow 1475 (Berlin Herb.); Rio Janeiro, Glaziou 
12408; Minas Geraes, Claussen (fig. 46), with geminate erect peduncles 
and abruptly recurved flowers (in Herb. De Candolle, received from De 
Lessert, 1842) ; without definite locality, Riedel 2173 (Berlin Herb.). 
