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present leaves, strongly protogynous : fruit edible. Arillus very distinct in A. 

 yrandiflora and A. pygmcea. — Fam. ii. 365; Dunal. 1. c. 81 ; DC. 1. c. 87; 

 Gray, Gen. 111. i. 67, t. 26, 27 ; Bentli. & Hook. Gen. i. 24 (but belongs to their 

 tribe Uvariece) ; Gray, Bot. Gaz. xi. 161.^ Orcliidocariyum, Michx. Fl. i. 329. 



* Flowers (iu early spring) from the axils of the deciduous leaves of the preceding year, 

 therefore from woody stems : nascent shoots and foliage also calyx pubescent ; leaves 

 comparatively broad, short-petioled. 

 -t— Leaves membranaceous, ample, acute or acuminate,, copiously pinnately-veined, the retic- 

 ulation of veinlets inconspicuous : pubescence of calyx and nascent leaves sericeous and 

 ferrugineous : petals moderately accrescent, from lurid green becoming brown purple, iu 

 both series ovate, not very unlike, the inner moderately concave and not rimose-thickened 

 nor corrugated at base within. 

 A. triloba, Dunal. (Papaw.) Tree 20 to 40 feet high, also flowering as a low shrub: 

 leaves at maturity half a foot to a foot long, obovate-oblong with tapering base : flowers on 

 brown-pubescent pedicels of about their own length : outer petals half icch, accrescent to an 

 inch in length : carpels few : style distinct and with short iutrorse stigma : ovules numerous 

 in two series : fruits sometimes 3 maturing (whence the specific name), commonly only one or 

 two, the larger about 4 inches long, filled with sweet somewhat aromatic but mawkish pulp : 

 seeds several, oblong, compressed, an inch long. — Monog. Anon. 83 ; DC. 1. c. ; Guimp. Otto 

 & Hayne, Abbild. Holzarten, 66, t. 53 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 68, t. 26, 27 ; Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5854.'^ ^1. campaniJio)'a & A. conoklea, Spach, Hist. Veg. vii. 528, 530. Annonn triloba, 

 L. Spec. i. 537 (Catesb. Car. ii. t. 85) ; Marsh. Arbust. 10; Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. iii. 161, 

 t. 9; Schk. Handb. t. 149. Anona triloba, Nouv. Duham. ii. 83, t. 25. Orchidocarpum arieti- 

 num, Michx. Fl. i. 329. . Porcelia triloba, Pers. Syn. ii. 95 ; Pursh, Fl. ii. 383. Uvaria triloba, 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 45; Baill. Hist. PI. i. 193, f. 220-228.3 — Alluvial soil along streams, 

 W. New York and adjacent Canada to Michigan and Iowa, south to Middle Florida and 

 E. Texas.* 



A. parviflora, Dunal. Shrub 2 to 5 feet high, branching above : leaves smaller and 

 rather thicker, from obovate to spatulate : flowers fully half smaller, very short-pedicelled : 

 petals less accrescent and less une(iual : stigma sessile: ovules about 10, nearly in a single 

 series : fruit oblong or pyriform, an inch or so long : seeds few, turgid, half inch long. — 

 Monog. Anon. 82, t. 9 ; DC. I. c. ; Ell. Sk. ii. 41 ; Chapm. Fl. 15. Orchidocarpum parviflorum, 

 Michx. Fl. i. 329. Porcelia parviflora, Pers. 1. c. ; Pursh, 1. c. Uvaria parviflora, Torr. & 

 Gray, Fl. i. 45. — Dry sandy soil, N. Carolina to Florida and Alabama. 



•»— -J— Leaves furfuraceous-tomentulose when young, in age chartaceous and with conspicu- 

 ous reticulation of veinlets, mostly retuse or obtuse, comparatively small : flowers often in 

 pairs or with a leafy shoot from the same axil : petals white ; outer much accrescent, or- 

 bicular and at length obovate; inner much smaller, with saccate-concave base, purple 

 within and rimose-corrugate ; ovaries densely pubescent, tipped with a sessile depressed 

 stigma ; fruits an inch or two long, several-seeded ; seeds ovate-oval, flattened. 

 A. grandiflora, Dunal. Stems 2 to 5 feet high : leaves tomentulose both sides, only gla- 

 brate in age, spatulate-ol)long to obovate or oval ; the larger 3 or 4 inches long and l" or 2 

 wide : outer petals when full grown 2 inches or more in lengtli, and 3 or 4 times the length 

 of the inner, these for the upper half with revolute margins. — Monog. Anon. 84, 1. 11 ; DC. 

 Prodr. i. 86; Ell. Sk. ii. 42; Chapm. Fl. 15. Anona (p-andiflora,Bartr.Trav. (Am ed.) 

 t. 2. Annona obovata, Willd. Spec. ii. 1269, Orchidocarpum grandiflorum, Michx. Fl. i. 330. 

 Porcelia grandiflora, Pers. 1. c. ; Pursh, 1. c. Uvaria obovata, Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 45.— 

 Sandy woods, S. Georgia and Florida; first coll. by Bartram. He describes "the flowers as 

 sweet-scented, " the fruit of the size and form of a small cucumber, containing a yellow 

 pulp of the consistence of a hard custard, and very delicious wholesome food." Fl. March, 

 April. 



1 Add Sargent, Silv. i. 21, with conspectus of species. 



2 A<ld Lloyd Bros. Am. Drugs & Med. ii. 49, t. 3.3, f. 120-125; Sargent, Silv. i. 23, t. 15, 16. 



3 Add Bull. Soc. Linn, de Paris, 651. 



4 Prof. Sargent, 1. c, extends the range to E. Pennsylvania and on the west to E. Kansas. 



