Joi.Y 19, 1913] New Anonaceae 1718 



ves coriaceous, horizontal or descending, recurved at the abruptly 

 acute apex, alternatingly scattered toward the end of the 

 twigs, broadly obtuse or rounded at base, the margins entire 

 and slightly involute in the dry state, drying nearly equally 

 brown on both sides, much elongated, 3 dm. long by 8 

 cm. wide at or above the middle, glabrous but minutely 

 pulverulent on both sides especially along the median region; 

 midrib deeply caniculate above, prominently raised and edged 

 beneath, subglabrous and puberulent; lateral nerves pinnate, 

 obscure but equally visible from both sides, about 20 pairs 

 with frequent secondary ones intervening, their tips truncate- 

 ly united a few mm. below the edge, reticulations only, 

 visible from the upper side; petiole less than 1 cm. long 

 very much thickened, widely and deeply grooved along the 

 upper side, puberulent but glabrous with age, nearly black 

 in dried specimens. Bud flowers pendant, in clusters from 

 small or larger very shortly branched ligneous tubercles (isolated 

 flowers were seen along the branchlets without the tubercles); 

 pedicel densely appressed with fulvus colored hairs, stout, 

 less than 1 to 1.5 cm. in length, terete, thickened toward 

 the distal end, glabrous when old, subtended around the 

 base by l>roadly rounded unequal bracts; buds conically pointed, 

 ferrugineously appressed pubescent; calyx persistent, spreading, 

 very thick and rigid, united at the base, the 3 segments 

 ovately triangular, 5 mm. long and as broad across the 

 base; petiole 6, the two series unequal; the outer 3 richly 

 ferrugineously hairy on the back, glabrous on the inner 

 side, thickly coriaceous, early falling even while the inner 

 ones are yet in the bud state, the median line toward the 

 acuminate point creased, broad at the base and sides toward 

 the apex incurved, the larger on-es collected 1.5 cm. long 

 by 1 cm. wide across the base; the inner 3 petals flatly 

 conical in the bud state and densely cinereously pubescent 

 on the outside, valvate and creased along the edges, rather 

 conspicuously pointed, at the base very shortly and trunc- 

 ately clawed, ovately triangular in shape, 7 mm. long and 

 wide below the middle; receptacle glabrous, circular 5 mm 

 in diameter; stamens very numerous, linear, 2 mm. long 

 closely packed, the lateral anther cells very linear the 

 thickened apex somewhat hairy in the young state; female 



