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odor and flavor to that celebrated drink cacao, which they call chocolate, and it 

 imparts to it certain tonic properties and wholesomeness as well. It is said that 

 when drunk in water this flower dispels flatulency, causes phlegm to become 

 thin, warms and comforts the stomach which has been chilled or weakened, as 

 well as the heart ; and that it is eflScacious in asthma, ground to a powder with 

 addition of two pods of the red peppers called texochilli, with their seeds re- 

 moved and toasted on a comal, which is a kind of griddle on which the natives 

 toast and make their bread called by us tortillas, adding to the same three drops 

 of balsam and taking it in some suitable liquor." It is of interest to note that 

 the dried flowers are still offered for sale in the markets of Guatemala. 



5. DESMOPSIS Safford, Bull. Torrey Club 43: 184. 1916. 

 1. Desmopsis galeottiana (Baill.) Safford, Bull. Torrey Club 43: 187. 1916. 



Trigyneia galeotttana Baill. Adansonia 8: 181. 1868. 



Veracruz ; type from Palanque. 



Shrub or small tree with elliptic-lanceolate leaves; flowers green, on long 

 slender pedicels ; fruit of 7 to 11 carpels. 



6. XYLOPIA L. Syst. Nat. e<l. 10. 1250. 1750. 

 1. Xylopia trunciflora Schleeht. & Cham. Linnaea 6:417. 1831. 



Known only from the type locality, near Colipa, Veracruz. 



Small tree; leaves lance-elliptic, 10 cm. long, obtuse, subsessile, pubescent 

 beneath; flowers borne along the trunk; carpels 5 to 7, globose or ellipsoid, 

 1 to 3-seeded. 



7. ROLLIlsriA St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. 1: 28. 1825. 



1. Rollinia mucosa (Jacq.) Baill. Adansonia 8: 268. 1868. 

 Amiona mucosa Jacq. Obs. Bot. 16. 1764, 



Veracruz. Trinidad and Lesser Antilles; type locality, Martinique. i 



Tree with brownish branches; leaves oblong or elliptic, 7 to 14 cm. long, 



acuminate; flowers solitary, long-pedunculate. "Anona " {Ramirez); " an6n," 



" candongo " (Santo Domingo). 





8. ANNONA L. Sp. PI. 536. 1753. 



References : Safford, Classification of the genus Annona, with descriptions 

 of new and imperfectly known species, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 1-68. 

 pi. l-J/l, f. 1-75. 1914 ; Safford, Annona sericea and its allies, Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 16: 263-275. pi. 85-99, /. iM-}- 1913; Safford, The genus Annona: The 

 derivation of its name and its taxonomic subdivisions, Journ. Washington Acad. 

 Sci. 1 : 118. 1911 ; Safford, Annona, in Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 291-295. 1914. 



Trees or shrubs; leaves deciduous or persistent; flowers usually solitary, 

 lateral ; fruit very variable, composed of numerous carpels crowded together 

 into a fleshy mass. 



The generic name (sometimes, but incorrectly, written Anona) is a modifi- 

 cation of the Haitian name of some of the species, " an6n." Belmar gives the 

 Mixe equivalents of "anona" as " ai-dium," " ait-keip " (the tree), and 

 " tzaptzaidium." 



Flowers subglobose or broadly pyramidal in bud. 



Petals 3 or, if 6, the inner ones rudimentary or much narrower than the 

 outer ones. 

 Leaf blades 4 to 9 cm. long, thinly appressed-pilose beneath ; flowers 



short-pedicellate 1. A. globiflora. 



Leaf blades 9 to 14 cm. long, densely soft-pilose beneath ; flowers long- 

 pedicellate 2. A. longipes. 



