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triquetrous or keeled within along the distal portion, concave at the base to 
receive the essential parts, 25 to 30 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, rufous or 
fulvous-tomentose on the outside, grayish tomentulose within and pale rufous- 
tomentose at the base; inner petals minute, not exceeding the stamens in 
length, rufous-tomentulose; calyx gamosepalous, small, 3-parted, densely fer- 
rugineous-tomentose on the outside, the lobes broadly triangular and obtusely 
acuminate or cuspidate at the apex; stamens numerous, 1.2 to 1.4 mm. long, 
covering the lower half of the ovoid torus, appressed, subarcuate; filaments 
broad and flat, 0.45 mm. long and 0.25 mm. broad; pollen sacs linear, 0.8 mm. 
long (mature specimens observed), pale straw-colored, parallel and almost con- 
tiguous; connective a continuation of the basal filament, broad and flat, termi- 
nating in a slightly swollen obtuse velvety straw-colored apex above the pollen 
sacs but not expanding beyond them as in A. cherimola 
and its close allies; carpels numerous, crowded, dis- 
tinct, borne on the upper half of the torus, very similar 
to those of A. cherimola and its allies; ovaries about 
0.8 mm. long, clothed with long appressed whitish serice- 
ous hairs; styles ovoid or oblong, glandular-velvety with 
a median groove on the ventral side; fruit spheroid- 
cordiform or oblate, small, its component carpels ter- 
minating in pointed protuberances, very much as in 
umbonate forms of cherimoya fruit, and clothed with 
a 
a pale rufous or fulvous velvety indument; seeds rela- 
tively large, ovoid or oblong, 10 to 14 mm. long, 7 to 9 
broad, more or less triquetrous, with a smooth glossy 
golden brown testa more or less irregularly pitted and fic. 58.—Hssential parts 
a ruminate endosperm as in allied species. (PLATES 27, of flower of Annona bul- 
28. Ficures 30, 32, pp. 20, 21; 57, 58.) late. a, Stamens; b, 
. carpel ; c, ventral view 
Type material in the Delessert Herbarium, collected of style, showing me 
at Arcos de Canasi, on the north coast of Cuba, between = dian groove. Scale 13. 
Habana and Matanzas. 
DisTRIBUTION: Island of Cuba, Provinces of La Habana, Matanzas, and 
Santa Clara. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Cusa: Province of Huvana, (definite locality not stated,) 1831, Ramon de 
la Sagra 556 (type collection), in Herb. De Candolle, ex Herb. Deles- 
sert); Province of Matanzas, without definite locality, 1865, Wright 
827 (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; Province of Santa Clara, palm barren, Santa 
Clara, 1912, Britton & Cowell 13829 (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
The specimens collected by Ramon de la Sagra included only immature 
flowers (‘in alabastro unico a me observato.” A. Richard). These were 
nearly all detached from the branches, from which the leaves had also sepa- 
rated, as seen in the specimens in the De Candolle Herbarium as cited. The 
leaves agree in shape and texture with the specimens collected by Wright in 
the Province of Matanzas, here figured, except that several of the latter are 
more distinctly mucronulate than any of the leaves of the type. The normally 
shaped ones, growing on the upper portions of the branches, shown in figure 30 
(p. 20), are distinctly oblong, and not suborbicular as in the closely allied A. 
crassivenia of Almacigos (fig. 31, p. 20), which has hitherto been confused 
with this species. From the camera lucida drawings of the essential parts 
(fig. 58) it will be seen that the mature stamens of Annona bullata are broader, 
thinner, and flatter, the hairy carpels more slender, and the (ovoid) terminal 
