LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 

 Vol. V. Manila, P. I., July 19, 1913. Art. 92 



NEW ANONACEAE 



by 



A. D. E. Elmer 



ARTABOTRYS R. Br. 

 Artabotrys cumins^iana subgiabra Elm. n. var. 



A sprawling climber; stem tough, terete, 1.25 cm. thick, 

 smooth, brownish except the green branchlets which turn 

 blackish brown when dry; wood whitish, sweet, odorless, 

 with a dull pith. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, dull deep 

 green above, much paler green beneath, very shallowly folded 

 upon the upper side, the abrupt obtuse to acute tips recurved, 

 glabrous, drying very unequally brown on the 2 sides, entire, 

 12 to 15 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. wide at the middle, base 

 obtusely rounded, oblong; midvein stout beneath, finely punc- 

 tate along the upper side, very sparsely strigose along its 

 sides on the under surface; nerves 7 to 9 pairs, their ends 

 coarsely anastomosing, reticulations quite evident from both 

 sides; petiole less than 1 cm. long, shallowly grooved on 

 the upper side, glabrous. Inflorescence along the twigs below 

 the foliage, usually one or more flowers from the ends of 

 the stout green much flattened and recurved or hooked pe- 

 duncle; pedicel 2 cm. long, curved, subtended at the base 

 by minute bracteoles, slightly thickened toward the distal 

 end, very sparingly strigose; calyx barely united at the 

 base, 5 mm. long, subelliptic, obtuse at the apex, strigose- 

 ly pubescent except the finely papillose middle basal portion 

 of the upper surface, persistent and spreading; petals very 



