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the flower, showing gynecium, torus with stamens, base of a petal (p), and a sepal (s) ; 
7, petals from within; a, outer petal; b, inner petal with excavated base; 8, a, stamen 
dorsal view, showing two pollen sacs; b, stamen, ventral view; 9, fruit; 10, same in 
cross section, showing ruminate albumen of seeds. Fig. 1, much reduced; fig. 2, scale 
45 figs. 3, 5, 6, scale 3; figs. 4, 7, 9, 10, natural size; fig. 8, scale about 6. 
Geanthemum cadavericum (Huber) Safford. 
Duguetia cadaverica Huber, Bol. Mus. Paraense 5: 356. 1908. 
Type collected in the moist primeval forests between the rivers Cumand- 
mirim and Ariramba, December 18, 1906, by A. Ducke (no. 7995). 
Closely allied to these two species and probably congeneric with them is a 
plant described and figured by Velloso under the name of Uvaria sessilis* 
(fig. 75), which Martius erroneously regarded as a synonym of his Duguetia 
bracteosa. If the two species were identical, the specific name of Velloso would 
take precedence. As seen in Velloso’s figure, however, both the leaves and flowers 
of his plant bear a close resemblance to those of Geanthemum rhizanthum and 
apparently represent a closely allied form. The fruit of Duguetia bracteosa has 
never been figured, but it is described by Martius as equal in size to the nut of 
Juglans regia, globose, with about 30 to 40 pentagonal obovate carpels, mucro- 
nate with the persistent style, and of a scarlet to brownish color. The type 
locality of D. bracteosa is the primeval forests of the Province of Bahia, near 
St. George of the Islands. The flowering branch of a plant in the Museum of 
St. Petersburg identified as Duguetia bracteosa, collected by Riedel at Castel- 
novo, Province of Bahia (no, 493), and figured by Robert E. Fries,’ shows the 
inflorescence bearing large, persistent, sessile, ovate bracts which are absent 
from Velloso’s figure of Uvaria sessilis. Martius was then, in all probability, 
mistaken in regarding the latter species as identical with the former, the fruit 
of which is described as being subtended by a persistent involucre. 
ADDENDUM. 
Annona praetermissa Fawc. & Rendle. 
Annona praetermissa Fawe. & Rendle, Journ. Bot. Brit. & For. 52: 74. 1914. 
Anona jamaicensis Sprague (in part), Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 5: 701. 1905. 
Annona jamaicensis Safford (in part), Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb. 16: 274. pl. 
99, 1913. 
Type collected on Craig Hill, near Gordon Town, St. Andrew Parish, Ja- 
maica, June, 1902, by W. Fawcett. 
Under the name Annona jamaicensis at least two species have been included, 
growing wild in the mountains of Jamaica. Annona jamaicensis, based upon 
Annona sericea Griseb. (not Dunal), was described by Sprague from specimens 
collected (1) by William Purdie, in 1844, near Bath, at the eastern extremity 
of the island; (2) by William Thomas March, who lived at Spanish Town 
(nos. 4, 7, 1571, without definite locality, collected in 1849-50); (3) by Alex- 
ander Prior, who collected in the Blue Mountains, in the eastern portion of 
Jamaica, and in the vicinity of Moneague, near the central part of the island 
north of the dividing ridge (locality not cited). Of these specimens it is 
probably Prior’s which Grisebach referred to Annona sericea, since duplicates 
of Prior’s collections were in Grisebach’s Herbarium. This is the plant fig- 
ured by the writer in volume 16 of the Contributions, plate 98, with subglobose 
flower bud. 
1 Fl. Flum. 238. 1825. Atlas 5: pl. 125. 1827, 
? Arkiv Bot. 54: pl. 1. f. 6, 1905, 
