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recent botanical exploration of Panama very nearly on the exact 
spot where Dr. Sutton Hayes found it. Professor Pittier reports 
it as ‘‘a small tree 5 to 8 meters high and regularly shaped. The 
straight trunk, covered with a brownish gray bark, is not divided 
but sends out radiating horizontal limbs, the extremities of which 
are slightly pendulous, and which are shorter toward the top, so 
as to form a pyramidal crown.” 
2. Desmopsis Galeottiana (Baill.) Safford 
Trigyneia Galeottiana Baill. Adansonia 8:181. 1868. 
A shrub or small tree with slender branches, at length glabrate. 
Young growth hirtellous-tomentose with simple yellowish hairs. 
Leaves short-petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, obtuse 
at the tip and usually unsymmetrically cuneate at the base, above 
bright green, glabrate except along the impressed midrib, beneath 
fulvous tomentose-hirtellous especially along the prominent midrib 
and the primary nerves. Flowers green (according to Galeotti), 
borne on long slender curved pedicels, these solitary or in pairs 
(rarely in three’s) growing from a short peduncle and subtended 
by a leaf-like elliptical or cordate bract with nerves and indument 
like the leaves; peduncle terminal or opposite a leaf, about 8 mm. 
long, at length woody and branch-like; pedicels recurved, 40-50 
mm. long, at first filiform and hirtellous and bearing a small ovate 
clasping bract below the middle, at length glabrate and bractless. 
Calyx three-parted, the divisions short and usually acute, pu- 
bescent on the outside. Petals six, equal or nearly so, valvate, in 
two series, ovate-lanceolate, rather thick, usually acute at the 
apex, puberulous on the outside. Stamens numerous, borne on 
a convex torus, with the connective expanded above the linear 
pollen sacs into a broad more or less concave disk. Carpels (in 
at length glabrate; stipes 4-6 mm. long an 
or curving slightly upward; seeds one to 
subglobose, endosperm ruminate as in all Annonaceae. 
Type in Herbarium of Copenhagen, ‘“Anonac. Mexic. Liebm. 
No. 153,” collected at Palanque, state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 
: s Museum and 
March, 1841, by Liebmann (No. 7); cotypes in Pari 
