54 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 
Annona globiflora Schlecht. 
Anona globifiora Schlecht. Linnea 10: 235, 1836. 
Annona fruticosa Moc. & Sessé, Fl. Mex. ed. 2. 184. 1894. 
Section Annonella. A shrub 1 to 2 meters high with a spreading bushy habit 
of growth; leaves thin-membranaceous, punctate, deep green above, paler be- 
neath; new branchlets rufous-pilose, at length glabrate, and finally plicate-striate, 
brown, dotted with very small inconspicuous pale brown lenticels; leaves 
oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptical, 4 to 9 cm. long and 15 to 20 mm. broad, 
with 7 to 9 lateral nerves on each side, usually obtuse or rounded but some- 
times acute at the apex, acute at the base, the leaves near the base of the 
branchlets smaller and relatively broader than the others, sometimes ovate or 
even orbicular, as in many other Annonaceae, the margins slightly revolute, 
glabrate above and sparsely puberulent beneath; 
petioles about 3 mm. long, clothed like the midrib 
beneath and the peduncles with appressed ferru- 
gineous hairs scarcely apparent to the naked eye; 
peduncles in pairs or solitary, extra-axillary, often 
opposite a leaf, 1-flowered, 4 to 5 mm. long, with two 
small hirtellous bracteoles, one at the base and one 
near the middle; flower buds globose, 7 to 8 mm. in 
diameter; calyx lobes triangular, hirtellous with ap- 
pressed ferrugineous hairs on the outside; torus 
convex or subconoid; stamens numerous, 1.5 mm. 
long, the connective thickened at the apex, but not 
dilated into a hoodlike covering above the pollen 
sacs; carpels almost equal to the stamens in length, 
the ovaries appressed-pilose, surmounted by taper- 
F1c. 63.—Flower of Annona pointed velvety styles with a median ventral stig- 
globiflora. Budwithone matic groove, becoming suffused with a viscous fluid 
petal ve erpe ' Oe at the time of pollination and soon afterwards drop- 
scale 4: a, b,c, scale13. Ping off in a coherent mass; fruit small, spheroid or 
broadly conoid, 8 or 4 cm. in diameter, its surface 
muricate, or mamillate with stout salient nipple-like points, the integument 
glabrous and minutely granular, no distinct lines marking the areoles formed by 
the individual carpels; seeds unsymmetrically obovate, somewhat compressed. 
and marginate, about 12 mm. long and 6 mm. broad, with a swollen caruncle at 
base and with a golden brown thin glossy testa more or less wrinkled by the 
inclosed ruminate albumen; pulp scanty, edible. (PLatTre 33. Figure 63.) 
Type collected near the Hacienda de la Laguna, a short distance south of 
Jalapa, State of Veracruz, Mexico, August 29, 1828, by J. Schiede (no. 298). 
DISTRIBUTION: Mexico, eastern subtropical region of the States of San Luis 
Potosi, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
MEXICO: 
Veracruz: Type specimen, as cited; Zacuapan, Purpus, 2443. 
San Luis Potosi: Las Canoas, Pringle 3796; Palmer 224. 
TAMAULIPAS: Victoria, Nelson 6666 (in fruit) ; Palmer 55 (in flower), 489. 
LCAL NAMES: Anonita de papagayos (Hspinal) ; Anonilla (Veracruz) ; Chiri- 
moya cimarrona (Huasteca region of San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas). 
In its low bushy habit this species is quite distinct from all other Mexican 
Annonas. Its closest allies are the recently discovered Annona bicolor Urban 
