390 SMALL: PLANT NOVELTIES FROM FLORIDA 
type, imbricate, recurved-spreading. Stamens 14-21, crowded 
on a flat receptacle; filaments a mere disk-like dilation; anthers 
the receptacle; style wanting; stigma subulate, shorter than the 
carpel-body, introrse, deciduous. Ovary I-celled. Ovules 6-8. 
Fruit usually of one or two carpels, baccate, stipitate, with thin 
esh, 1-4 seeded, often somewhat torulose. Seeds very turgid.— 
(Named for Charles Deering, generous patron of the Sciences and 
the Arts.) 
On one of our detours across the Florida peninsula in April, 
1923,* we discovered a very peculiar shrub in the uninhabited 
pineland wilderness between Punta Gorda and Fort Myers. 
It is a genus of the custard-apple family, most closely related to 
the genus Asimina. Following is a description of the genus 
and of the species: 
The family Annonaceae has been represented in the conti- 
nental United States by two genera—Annona and Asimina. 
Annona is widely distributed geographically, while Asimina 
is not known outside the eastern United States. The third 
genus, Deeringothamnus is still more restricted in range, being 
confined to limited areas in southern peninsular Florida. It is 
related to A simina from which it differs in the dimorphous stems, 
the flat or depressed receptacle, and the narrow nearly uniform 
unsculptured petals. 
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clustered stems mostly 3 dm. tall or less, from a succulent- 
at the apex, sharply reticulate when dry, glabrous above, at 
least at maturity, with scattered fuscous hairs, especially on the 
yellow or orange midrib, beneath, or even glabrous beneath at 
maturity, acute at the base; flowering stems stouter than the 
lea _ stems, the bracts foliaceous, ovate, oval, or elliptic, 
relatively broad, thus differing from the foliage leaves, sessile 
or nearly so; pedicels curved, mostly 1-2.5 cm. long, sparingly 
pubescent, mostly simple, enlarged at the top; sepals coriaceous, 
ovate to lanceolate, 4-8 mm. long, acute, stiff, red-pubescent; 
petals linear, varying to broadest above the middle or below it, 
recurved-spreading above the middle, usually 1-2 cm. long, 
(the inner the smaller), the outer finely pubescent, the inner 
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* To be described in full in a future issue of the Journal of The New York 
Botanical Garden. 
