62 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Raimondia quinduensis (H. B. K.) Safford. 
Anona quinduensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5: 60. 1821. 
Annona conica Ruiz & Pav.; Don, Hist. Dichl. Pl. 1: 88, 1831.2 
A tree with alternate pendulous branches; branchlets terete, rugulose, glab- 
rous, the younger ones pubescent with simple hairs; leaves alternate, lanceolate- 
oblong, acuminate at both ends, entire, reticulate-veined, the midrib and lateral 
nerves (8 to 11 on each side) prominent beneath, thin and membranaceous, at 
length subcoriaceous, above glabrous and smooth, beneath clothed with scattered 
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Fia. 71.—Aberemoa guianensis, 1, Cluster of carpels; 2, a single pedicellate carpel; 3, 
seed; 4, endosperm, Scale, 3. Reproduced from Aublet. 
minute appressed and longitudinally adnate simple hairs or quite glabrous, 
pellucid-punctulate, 10:to 22 cm. long by 2 to 6.6 em. broad, the younger ones 
more or less pubescent with ferrugineous appressed hairs, especially on the 
nerves and midrib; petioles 6 to 10 mm. long, grooved above, puberulous; in- 
florescence extra-axillary or subterminal, composed of 1 to 5 long-pediceled 
unisexual flowers borne on peculiar specilized flowering branchlets, solitary or 
in 2’s or 3’s, invested with small imbricating amplexicaul scabrous distichous 
bracteoles clothed with ferrugineous hairs; pedicels 1-flowered, filiform, 8 to 12 
*Don cites “Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Peruv. [Chil.] 5: pl. 490,” a volume hitherto 
unpublished. 
