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and bearing 2 ovate bracteoles, one at the base, the other near the middle; 
calyx 3-lobed, the divisions subtriangular or broadly ovate, acute or acuminate, 
clothed with minute fulvous hairs; corolla gamopetalous, composed of 3 large 
lobes corresponding to the outer petals of an Annona flower and 3 minute lobes 
alternating with them, corresponding to the inner petals and opposite the 
calyx lobes; outer lobes widely diverging but not curved backward, about 15 
mm. long, hollow and sacklike and closed nearly to the base, leaving only a 
narrow opening above the essential parts, the edges slightly overlapping the 
margins of the minute inner lobes; outer surface of the corolla densely 
fulvous-tomentulose; torus convex, covered with long fulvous hairs; stamens 
numerous, crowded, 1.1 mm. long, resembling those of an Annona, with the 
connective expanded at the apex into a flat process covering the two parallel 
pollen sacs, the latter dehiscing extrorsely by a median fissure; carpels numer- 
ous, about 1 mm. long, distinct but closely crowded 
into a convex gynoecium, the 1-ovuled ovaries covered 
with straight ascending hairs and terminating in an 
abruptly expanded flat style; fruit (syncarpium) re- 
sembling that of an Annona, subglobose, large, areo- 
late, the areoles gibbous or wartlike, but not muricate 
nor papillose, more or less hexagonal in shape with a 
the dividing lines raised; pulp fleshy, white or whitish, nO) sarah teeta and 
mucilaginous, sweet, edible; seeds obovoid, 18 to 20 cosa. Scale 13. 
mm. long by 12 to 14 mm. broad, somewhat com- 
pressed and with a caruncle at the base; testa thin, brown; endosperm wrinkled 
like that of other Annonaceae. (PLATE 39. Figure 67.) 
TYPE LOCALITY: Martinique. 
DISTRIBUTION: Growing spontaneously and rarely cultivated in the West 
Indies, Tropical Mexico, and very probably northern South America. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
MARTINIQUE: Hauteurs du Précheur et du Fond Canonville, 1881, Pére 
Duss 1045 (U.S. Nat. Herb.). 
GUADELOUPE: Camp Jacob, “ petit arbre, rare, cultivaté ci et 14 pour ses 
fruits, fl. en février, mars, et avril,” Pére Duss 3059 (U. S. Nat. Herb., 
with flower and fruit). 
ISLAND OF TRINIDAD: Without definite locality, Herb. Bot. Gardens Trinidad, 
no. 2774 (two sheets in Herb. John Donnell Smith). 
Porto Rico: Prope Adjuntas, in sylva montis Galsa, Sintenis 4170. 
LocaL NAMES; Cachiman morveux, Cachiman montague (French Antilles) ; 
Anona babosa, Zambo (tropical Mexico). 
Rollinia mucosa is a species with large edible fruit, but this not equal in 
flavor to that of the chirimoya or sugar apple. It was first described by 
Jacquin from specimens of plants growing wild and sometimes cultivated on the 
Island of Martinique; and afterwards, under the name of Anona obtusiflora, 
by Tussae from a specimen growing in an orchard at the western extremity of 
the Island of Hayti. It is possible that more than one species is included by 
authors under this specific name and that wild plants with smaller flowers and 
inedible fruit have been erroneously referred to the species. The accompany- 
ing figure shows that the lobes of the corolla are widely diverging but with an 
upward curve. Other closely related species in Central America, with geminate 
instead of solitary flowers, decurved corolla lobes, and small fruit with seeds 
very much smaller than those of A. mucosa have been referred to the latter 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES 38, 39.—PI. 38, type specimen, Reproduced from St. Hilaire. 
Pl. 39, flower, fruit, and seed. Drawing by Theodore Bolton from Pére Duss 3059, as 
cited. Natural size. 
