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A small shrub 15 dm. tall or less, with gray to reddish bark. 
Branchlets, young leaves, particularly the lower surface, pe- 
duncles, and the outside of the young sepals and petals tomentose 
with bright reddish brown hairs; mature leaves 6-17 cm. long, 
_ 3-9 cm. wide, obovate to oblong-obovate, acute at the apex, nar- 
towed at the base, thin, glabrous above, usually more or less 
tomentose beneath, especially on the midrib and veins; petioles 
tomentose, 6 mm. long or less; flowers solitary from the axils of 
the deciduous leaves of the preceding year, on peduncles 5 mm. 
long or less; sepals ovate, 5-7 mm. long; mature outer petals 
Ovate to broadly oval, 7-10 mm. long, less than twice the length 
of the sepals; fruit, not fully mature, oblong, about 3 cm. long, 
sparingly pubescent. 
In the low and middle country from North Carolina (accord- 
ing to Dr. Chapman) to Florida, west to Alabama. 
Specimens examined: 
Georgia: Small, Gwinnett Co., July 20, 1893; Stone Moun- 
tain, May 1-18, 1895. 
florida: Curtiss, nos. 85, 4201 and 4545, all from the vicinity 
of Jacksonville. 
Canby, Hibernia, March, 1869. 
J. D. Smith, no. 27, Clay Co., March to, 1883. 
Rugel, near Tallahassee, April, 1843. 
Chapman, no data. 
Le Conte, no data. 
Alabama: Buckley, April and June. 
Winchell, no data. 
3. ASIMINA RETICULATA Shuttlw.; Chapm. Fl. S. St. 603. 1884. 
Asimina cuneata Shuttlw.; A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 11; 163. 1886, 
A small shrub 5-10 dm. tall, with bark of a grayish brown to 
rown color, the branchlets, lower surface of the young leaves, 
Peduncles and the exterior surface of the sepals and young 
Petals densely tomentose with reddish brown hairs. Young leaves 
Somewhat tomentose above, soon glabrous; mature leaves nar- 
towly oblong, inclining to narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 
2.5~9 cm. long, .5—2 cm. broad, thick and leathery, glabrous, retic- 
ulated, the midrib and nerves prominent beneath ; petioles 
I~2 mm. long; flowers on peduncles 5-8 mm. long, from the 
axils of the deciduous leaves of the preceding year, sometimes ac- _ 
Companied by a branchlet; sepals ovate, 5-7 mm.long; mature — 
Cuter petals oval to obovate, 2.5-4 cm, long, 1.2~1.5 cm. broad, 
