JcLY 19, 1913] New Anonaceab 1709 



numerous, divaricately spreading, 2 to 3 m. long, only 

 sparingly branched, 2.5 era. thick, only the tips ascending; 

 wood soft, fibrous, whitish, odorless and tasteless; bark 

 finely mottled, smooth, grayish white, green on the twigs, 

 easily stripping, the ultimate ones densely fuligineusly pu- 

 bescent. Leaves well scattering along the entire length of 

 the branchlets, alternate, a trifle descending, dull green on 

 the upper nearly flat surface, yellowish so beneath and 

 shallowly concave, leatheiy, entire, apex abruptly constricted 

 into an acute point, base obtuse, obovately elliptic to oblongish 

 or subrotund, when young soft and densely fuligineus pu- 

 bescent on both sides, alternate, becoming glabrate on the^ 

 upper side except along the grooves of the nerves, beneath 

 always soft pubescent, diverse in size, the larger blades 3.5 

 dm. long, 1.5 dm. wide above the middle, frequently much 

 smaller yet of the same shape; midnevve very bold and 

 densely umber brown pubescent, avellaneus puberulent along 

 the shallow upper side; lateral nerves 7 to 14 pairs, divari- 

 cate, straight, tips interarching, relatively conspicuous, simi- 

 larly pubescent, cross bars and reticulations very faint; 

 petiole very stout, 1.5 cm. long, densely pubescent. Inflo- 

 rescence leaf opposed, pendulous from short tubercles, yellow- 

 ish green, sweetly fragrant; peduncles thick, ligneous, from 

 1 to 3 cm. long, the young portion short brown pubescent, 

 occasionally branched or 2 or more from the base, the old 

 or basal portion gray and glabrous; pedicels 1 cm. long or 

 less, similarly pubescent, subtended by bracts; calyx 7.5 mm. 

 long, the 3 segments nearly free, 5 mm. wide across the 

 base, ovate, thick and rigid, pubescent except the upper basal 

 portion; petals 6, slightly unequal, the outer 3 a trifle longer 

 and somewhat wider, 3.5 cm. long, 6 mm. wide across the 

 middle, gradually tapering to the acute apex, obscurely con- 

 stricted toward the base, with a thickening on the upper 

 side 5 mm. from the base, velvety pubescent, the inner 

 segments less than one half as wide, falsely united over 

 the stamens, similarly pubescent except the inside of the 

 expanded basal portion and that portion on the outside 

 covered over by the outer segments; stamens indefinite, ses- 

 sile, 1.5 mm. long, cuneate, the connective expanded at the 

 top and crustaceous; the circular stigmatic mass in the center 



