52 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
13 to 15 on each side, almost at right angles to the midrib, forking dichotomously 
before reaching the margin; peduncles solitary, subterminal on short lateral 
branchlets, 5 to 7 mm. long; flower buds obclavate or obpyriform; calyx lobes 
triangular, 2.4 mm. long and 2.4 mm. broad at the base, clothed with ferrugin- 
eous appressed hairs on the outside; outer petals thick, valvate, broadly ovate 
and long-acuminate, hollowed at the base to cover the essential parts, the long 
tapering distal portion triquetrous and terminating in a rounded or acutish apex, 
ferrugineous-puberulent on the outside, glabrous within, 12 to 20 mm. long and 
6 to 7 mm. broad at the base; inner petals entirely absent in flowers of type 
material; torus convex, glabrous between the bases of the filaments; stamens 
numerous, 1.6 mm. long, the two linear pollen sacs contiguous, the apex of 
the connective above them not broadly expanded but similar 
in form to that of the stamens in the section Annonella; 
carpels equal in length to the stamens, closely appressed to 
form a conical gynecium; ovaries covered with appressed 
pale rufous hairs and bearing at their apex a fleshy tapering 
style; fruit spheroid, 3 to 3.5 cm. in diameter, glabrescent, 
thin-skinned, neither squamose nor tuberculate, but the areoles 
corresponding to the individual carpels gibbous (in the dry 
fruit) ; mature peduncle slender, the calyx persistent; seeds 
obovate-oblong, laterally somewhat compressed and marginate 
on one side, 12 to 16 mm. long and 8 mm. broad (in type 
specimen), the thin testa more or less wrinkled and glossy 
Fig. 61.—Leaf of brown as though varnished; pulp soft. (PuLatEe 31. Ficures 
Annonacascaril- 60, 61.) 
loides. Lower Type in the Géttingen Herbarium, collected at Paredones 
soa ce Nat- de San José, in the Province of Pinar dei Rio, near the west- 
° ern extremity of the island of Cuba, in flower, June 10, in 
fruit, August 14, 1862, by C. Wright (no. 1848). Duplicates in the Gray and 
De Candolle herbaria. 
DISTRIBUTION : Western Cuba. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
CusBa: Province of Pinar del Rio, Paredones de San José, C. Wright 1848 
(type collection, Gray and De Candolle herbaria). 
LocaL NAMES: Anoncillo de Paredon; Anoncillo de Sabana (Province of Pinar 
del Rio). 
Annona cascarilloides owes its specific name to ‘the resemblance of the vena- 
tion of its leaves (fig. 61) to that of the leaves of certain species of the genus 
Cascarilla. The flowers were said in the original description to resemble those 
of the genus Rollinia, but this statement is quite misleading (see fig. 60). 
They appear to be intermediate in form between the flowers of Annona 
cherimola and those of A. globifiora. In their swollen base and slender apex 
they are not unlike the flowers of A. acutiflora Mart. of Brazil, but the latter 
have conspicuous inner petals, and these are quite lacking in the specimens of 
A, cascarilloides examined. The fruit, which is about as large as a plum, is 
devoid of protuberances or stigmatic scars. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 31,—Photograph of type material in the De Candolle Herbarium, 
showing leaves, flowers, and fruit, the latter distorted by compression. Natural size. 
Annona sclerophylla Safford, sp. nov. 
Section Annonula. A shrub 2 or 3 meters high with short crowded branch- 
lets and rigid approximate aromatic leaves; young branchlets and peduncles 
densely and shortly ferrugineous-tomentose; leaves thick-petioled, at first coria- 
ceous, at length rigid, oblong-linear with the midrib deeply impressed above 
