oF ANNONACEAE 189 
observed) a solitary elongated very slender recurved pedicel 3.5- 
6cm. long, thickened at the summit, clothed when very young with 
a few minute sparse appressed pale fulvous hairs, soon becoming 
quite glabrous, bearing a minute clasping bract below the middle 
and often a similar bract at the base adjacent to the much larger 
st terminating the peduncle. Calyx-segments broadly trian- 
tg 4 mm. long; petals equal, elongating after anthesis, linear- 
oblong, 13-18 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, obtuse at the apex, pubes- 
cent on the outside with minute appressed grayish hairs, dark brown 
(in dried specimens) on the inside. Stamens numerous, resem- 
bling those of Desmopsis panamensis in size and form, their closely 
crowded concave expanded connectives forming, before anthesis, a 
tight domelike pavement over the androecium, protec ting the pollen 
until the pollen sacs are ready to open. Gynoecium composed of 
+ cluster of ten to fifteen carpels, with the ovaries, about 2 mm. 
ong, clothed densely with silky hairs, at first dirty white, at length 
olivaceous, ovaries in a single ovary two to five, stigmas depressed- 
globose, covered with short hairs, adhering together in a dark 
brown mass after pollination and soon falling off. Fruit a cluster 
of short-stiped or nearly sessile one- to three-seeded spheroid or 
ovoid berries, scarcely at all constricted between the seeds, about 
8 mm. in diameter, seeds discoid, horizontal, forming a single 
column. Stipes 1-3 mm. long (in the type) and 1.5-2 mm. in 
thickness. [PLATE 8.] 
Type in the United States National Herbarium (sheet No. 
677550), collected by Henry Pittier in the forest near El Boquete, 
Chiriqui, Republic of Panama, at an altitude of 1,000 to 1,300 
meters, March 16, 1911 (No. 3154): Cotype (with flowers only) 
collected by William R. Maxon in the humid forest along the 
upper Caldera River, near Camp I, Holcomb’s trail, above El 
Boquete, Chiriqui, altitude 1,450-1 ,650 meters, March 22-24, 
1911 (No. 5564). 
DistrIBUTION: Known only 
Chiriqui, Republic of Panama. 
from the vicinity of El Boquete, 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED 
Type as cited and two additional sheets of type 
cotype, as cited, with flowers only. 
This species, like Desmopsis bibracteata, is remarkable for the 
banana-like fragrance of its flowers. It is easily distinguished 
from that species by its much broader, acuminate leaves, the mu 
shorter and thicker stipes of the fruit, and the absence of con- 
strictions between the seeds. 
collection ; 
