462 safford: a new species of annonaceae 



broadened connectives forming a continuous covering above the 

 pollen sacs while the flowers are still immature; lower stamens 

 shorter and relatively broader than the upper, subtriangular, 

 the pollen sacs similar to those of other Annonas, adnate to the 

 back of the broad filament and opening extrorsely by a longitu- 

 dinal slit; the expanded connectives glabrous; carpels about 12, 

 distinct, forming a cluster in the center of the mass of stamens, 

 densely covered with appressed rufous hairs, and terminating in a 

 short truncated stigma; fruit consisting of 8 to 12 shortly stipitate 

 carpidia, globose to oblong, ovoid, or obovoid in shape, con- 

 taining 1 to 4 seeds, granular on the surface, rounded or obtusely 

 apiculate at the apex, and more or less constricted between the 

 seeds; seeds of 1-seeded carpidia subglobose, those of 2-seeded 

 carpidia hemispheroid, the inner ones of 3-seeded and 4-seeded 

 carpidia discoid, with the circumference marked with a shallow 

 groove, somewhat like that of a pulley, and the surface wrinkled, 

 indicating the enclosed ruminate endosperm; mature torus sphe- 

 roid borne on a short thick peduncle, its base bearing the remains 

 of minute short stiff hairs and stamen scars. 



Type material: In the United States National Herbarium no. 

 653784. Leaves and flowers collected on the Island of Guam, 

 the southernmost of the Marianne Islands, on the Pago Road, east 

 side of the island, by H. L. W. Costenoble, June, 1906 (Herb. 

 W. E. Safford no. 1180). Fruit from the same locality received 

 from Rev. Jose Palomo, September, 1912. 



The thin, smooth, glossy leaves, are only slightly asymmetrical 

 at the base. The petioles, which are hairy at first but at length 

 become glabrate, are 4 mm. long, the blades of the larger leaves 

 are 10 cm. long and 3.5 cm. broad, with 12 fine but distinctly 

 marked lateral nerves on each side the midrib, more or less anasto- 

 mosing before reaching the margin, with reticulating veins between 

 them. The small cone-shaped flower-buds, which resemble those 

 of Annona glabra in shape, are 8 mm. long and 7 mm. broad; 

 the outer petals 8 mm. long and 5.6 mm. broad, and the inner 

 ones 7.5 mm. long and 4.5 mm. broad. The lowermost stamens 

 are 1.3 mm. long with the dilated connective 1 mm. broad, the 

 upper stamens are 2.3 mm. long with the connective of the same 



