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the branchlets. The description of Dunal,* moreover, calls for a 
plant with sub-sessile flowers and the branchlets and the lower 
surface of the leaves “rufo-pubescentibus,” characters certainly 
not to be found in A. speciosa, the flowers of which are lateral, 
from the axils of the deciduous leaves of the preceding year, and 
the pubescence merely yellowish white or tawny. The long 
peduncles also serve well to distinguish this from the true A. 
grandiflora Dunal, which is described in this revision under the 
name A, obovata. 
Sandy pine barrens, southeastern Georgia and East Florida. 
Specimens examined: 
Georgia; Small, Trader’s Hill, Charlton Co., June 12-15, 1895. 
Florida: Curtiss, nos. 86, 4,200 and 4,588, and a specimen 
with no number collected in 1875, all from the vicinity of Jack-_ 
sonville. 
Reynolds, March—May, 1871. 
Chapman, East Florida, 1871. 
Canby, Hibernia, March, 1869. 
Palmer, no. 4, Fort Capron, Indian River, 1874. 
5. Astmina opovatTa (Willd.). 
Annona grandifiora Bartr. Trav. 18. pl. 2. 1791. Not La- 
Marck. 1786. 
Annona obovata Willd. Sp. Pl. 2: 1269. 1800. 
A shrub or small tree, 1.5-2 metres tall, with grayish browmr 
_bark. Branchlets, petioles and the lower surface of the leaves, es- 
pecially the midrib and nerves, tomentose with bright reddish 
brown hairs; leaves 4-10 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad, narrowly 
Obovate to obovate, or the smaller ones often oval, glabrous 
above, on petioles 3-5 mm. in length; flowers sessile or nearly 
So, terminating the branchlets; sepals ovate or oval, 10-12 mm. 
long, tomentose when young, later glabrate; petals yellowish white, 
glabrous, mature outer ones obovate, 5-6 cm. long; fruit not seen, 
Pine lands in eastern and central peninsular Florida. 
Specimens examined: 
Nash, no. 178, Eustis, Lake Co., March 1894. 
Hulst, DeLand, March, 1891. 
Bates, Merritt’s Island, Indian River, March and April, 1889. 
The earlier publication by Lamarck of an Annona grandiflora t 
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t Encycl. 2: 126. 1786. 
