or ANNONACEAE 191 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED 
NIcARAGUA: Type and duplicate of type as cited. 
Costa Rica: “ Terrenosincultos, Nuestro Amo, alt. 500 metros, 
arbusto de flores olorosas, nom. vulg. ‘guineo,’’’ March, 1912, Otén 
Jiménez 416, in United States National Herbarium. 
PANAMA: Vicinity of David, Chiriqui, altitude 30-80 m., small 
tree, flowers sulphur yellow, fruit red, March 25, 1911, H. Pittier 
3367; vicinity of San Feliz, eastern Chiriquf, altitude 0-120 m., 
tree about 3 m. high, flowers yellow, having the fragrance of a 
banana, and hence:called “flor de guineo,” H. Pittier 5747, in 
United States National Herbarium. 
ADDENDUM 
After receiving the proof of the above descriptions the writer 
came upori an additional species of Desmopsis among the Anno- 
naceae of the Copenhagen Herbarium lent him for study. This 
species I have named in honor of its collector. 
5. Desmopsis Oerstedii sp. nov. 
A shrub or small tree with the young growth, petioles, midrib 
beneath, peduncles, and pedicels densely fulvous-hirtellous with 
soft simple hairs projecting outward. Leaves short-petioled, the 
blade resembling that of D. panamensis in shape, elliptic or elliptic- 
oblong, shortly acuminate at the apex and narrowed or acute at 
the base, 10-13 cm. long, 4-5 cm. broad. F lowers not observed. 
Fruiting peduncle (normally terminating in a small leaf-like bract) 
leaf-opposed, 1 cm. long; pedicels (solitary in type material) 2-4 
cm. long, clothed with persistent spreading fulvous hairs; bract 
separating the peduncle from the pedicel broadly cordate, 5 mm. 
ong, sessile, sometimes missing. Maturing carpels usually 
about seven, subglobose to oval, 12-24 mm. long and 10-12 mm. in 
diameter, not constricted between the seeds, rounded at the apex, 
and narrowed at the base into a short stipe 5-7 mm. long and 
2-3 mm. thick. Seeds four to six, horizontal, discoid and circular, 
9-10 mm. in diameter, or surfaces beveled at an acute angle and 
more or less semicircular in outline, those of the two rows over- 
lapping alternately, the testa light brown, thin, wrinkled by the 
inclosed ruminate endosperm, and marked by an impressed line 
around the periphery. 
