JcLT 19, 1013] New Anonackae 1717 



tasteless, yellowish or yellowish brown, moderately hard; 

 bark relatively thick, smooth and dull brown with occasional 

 grayish blotches, isabellinus otherwise; main branches divar- 

 icate, slender, freely rebranched, twigs relatively short, 

 crooked, also horizontally spreading, terete, grayish brown, 

 the young portion densely melleus tomentose; leaves oblong, 

 4 to 6 cm. wide across the middle, 1 to 1.5 dm. long, 

 8ubm era bran ous, flat but the slenderly acuminate to cjmdate 

 apex recurved, dull green but somewhat paler beneath, 

 curing rather bright green on both sides, base broadly 

 obtuse or obtusely rounded, the entire margins subinvolute 

 in the dry state, alternating and rather copious, chiefly at 

 the distal end of the terminal branchlets, glabrous except 

 the veins and nerves on both sides; mid vein prom- 

 inent beneath and melleus tomentose, also hairy on the upper 

 shallowly grooved surface; lateral nerves 10 to 13 on each 

 side, parellel, ascendingly curved especially toward the 

 more or less united tips, also conspicuous beneath, alike in 

 vestiture, cross bars fine and very evident from the nether 

 side; petioles usually with pubescent bud- in their axils, 5 

 mm. long at most, 2 mm. thick, densely light tawny pub- 

 escent. Flowers usually in small groups along the branch - 

 lets and occasionally in the leaf axil; pedicels 5 to 7 mm. 

 long, frequently arising from short common stalks, relatively 

 thick, subtended at the base by alternating somewhat unequal 

 bracts, densely deep yellowish brown tomentose; calyx 3, seg- 

 ments likewise tomentose, rotately spreading, ovate, united 

 at the base, about 4 mm. long and nearly as wide below 

 the middle; petals 6, subequal, free, rotately spreading, 

 thickly coriaceous, velutinous; the outer 8 oblong usually a 

 trifle larger, with rounded apices and broad bases, 8 mm. 

 long by 4 mm. wide, the 3 inner ones narrower at the base 

 and that portion arching over the sex organs in the bud 

 state is glabrous; receptacle pitted, flattened, circular, finely 

 hairy; stamens not numerous, unequal in length, 1.5 mm. 

 lonor, the filamentous portion glabrous and subterete, the 

 apical one half much enlarged into a subglobose mass with 

 the anther cells apparently along its sides; pistils 2 mm. 

 long, ovoidly linear, hairy except the short thick style and 

 the slightly tipped and thickened stigma. 



