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much exceeding the inner ones and about five times the length of 
the sepals, pubescent on the outside, particularly toward the base; 
immature fruit obovate, nearly glabrous. 
Pine barrens of Peninsular Florida. 
Specimens examined: 
Garber, Tampa, May, 1876. 
Lester F. & Rosamond Ward, Tampa, February 27, 1891. 
Nash, Tampa, no. 2477, August, 1895. 
Hubbard, March 1, 1883, no locality. 
Simpson, 1880, no locality, but probably in the vicinity of 
‘Manatee. 
Webber, no. 148, Mt. Dora, Lake Co., March, 1894. 
Palmer, no. 6, Fort Capron, Indian River, 1874. 
Bates, Merritt’s Island, Indian River, March and April, 1889. 
4. ASIMINA SPECIOSA. 
Orchidocarpum gvandiflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 330. 
1803.? 
Porcelia grandifiora Pers. Syn. 2:95. 1807.? 
Uvaria obovata Torr. & Gr. Fl. N. A. 1:45. 1838. 
Asimina grandiflora A. Gray, Bot. Gaz. 11: 163. 1886. Not 
Dunal. 1817. 
A small shrub, 6-12 dm. tall, with gray smooth bark. Branch- 
lets, as well as the peduncles and both surfaces of the young leaves, 
densely tomentose with yellowish or tawny hairs; mature leaves 
oblong, narrowly obovate or obovate, 7-14 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. 
broad, thick and leathery, reticulated, tomentose on both sides, spar- 
ingly so above; petioles 3-7 mm. long, densely tomentose ; flowers, 
sometimes accompanied with a branchlet, from the axils of the de- 
ciduous leaves of the preceding year, on peduncles 7-18 mm. long; 
sepals ovate, 6-8 mm. long, tomentose; mature outer petals 0 
to obovate, 4-5 cm. long, 2.5—3.5 cm. broad, much exceeding the 
inner ones, and about six times as long as the sepals, pubescent, 
particularly on the outside near the base; immature fruit glabrous. 
This plant has been referred to the A. grandiflora Dunal, which 
was based on Axnona grandiflora Bartram. It is not that plant, a5 
is plainly indicated by a reference to the excellent figures of Bar- 
tram* and of Dunal} where the flowers are shown as terminating 
* Travels p/. 2. 1791. 
+ Monog. Anon. f/. rz. 1817. 
