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and prominent beneath and the margins revolute, usually rounded and often 
apiculate at the apex, commonly rounded at the base, 3 to 5.5 em. long, 8 to 
11 mm. broad, glabrous and glossy above with the surface convex on each side 
of the midrib and covered with areoles formed by the reticulate veins between 
the lateral nerves, these 16 to 18 on each side, at right angles to the midrib and 
decurved toward the petiole; lower surface densely 
and persistently fulvous-tomentulose, the feltlike in- 
dument more or less concealing the venation on each 
side the prominent midrib, the latter at length gla- 
brescent and longitudinally striate, never ferrugineous- 
hirtellous as in Annona cascarilloides ; petioles 3.5 mm. 
long, 1.5 to 2 mm. thick, grooved above and persist- 
ently rufous-tomentulose; peduncles extra-axillary, 
often subterminal on short lateral branches, solitary, 
1-flowered, 5 to 13 mm. long, minutely ferrugineous- 
tomentose and bearing one or two small ovate brac- 
teoles near the base; flower buds (young ones only 
observed) rufous-tomentose or fulvous- tomentose, 
oblong-pyramidal, obtuse or rounded at the apex, 
little swollen at the base, 6 to 9 mm. long; calyx 
cup-shaped, gamosepalous, 3-lobed, the lobes broadly 
ovate, acute or obtuse, clothed on the outside with 
ferrugineous tomentum like that of the peduncle; 
petals 3, valvate, thick, triquetrous, clothed on the 
outside with rufous or fulvous tomentulum, excavated 
at the base to receive the essential parts, the cavity 
lined with fine tomentulum; torus convex; stamens 
numerous (those of immature flowers only observed) 
1 mm. long, their connectives terminating in a some- 
what expanded apex above the pollen sacs, but not 
broadly capitate or hooded as in the section Atta: 
carpels about equal in length to the stamens, closely 
crowded to form a cone-shaped gynecium; ovary Pia. 62.—Flower of Annone 
clothed with appressed rufous hairs; style fleshy, sel erophylla. Bud with 
slender, tapering; fruit not observed. (Piate 32, one petal removed. a, Sta- 
FIGURES 33, p. 21; 62.) mens; b, carpel. From 
Type in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical type specimen, Mower, 
95 scale 4; a, b, scale 13. 
Garden, collected on the “Loma Menquira (Mayari?), 
a short distance south of the Bay of Nipe, Province of Oriente, near the eastern 
extremity of Cuba, February 2, 1910, by J. A. Shafer (no. 38796). 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
CuBa: Type material as cited. 
This species was found growing in the form of a much branching shrub, about 
8 feet high, at an elevation of about 680 to 1,000 meters above sea level in thin 
soil. The aromatic, brittle leaves have very much the flavor of nutmeg and bear 
a resemblance to those of Annona cascarilloides of western Cuba. However, 
they are covered beneath with persistent fulvous feltlike tomentulum and are 
devoid of the bright-ferrugineous hairs which occur on the midrib and lower 
surface in the latter species, while the lateral nerves are peculiar and differ 
from those of all other known species of the genus in curving backward or 
downward toward the petiole, as shown in figure 33. 
BXPLANATON OF PLaTE 32,.—Photograph of the type specimen. Natural size, 
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