Gardneriancrr, . N. O. Anonacese. 



TAB. CCXXVIL 



GuATTERIA MaYPURENSIS 



Foliis oblongis acuminatis in petiolum brevein decurrentibus 

 subcoriaceis glabris nitidis costa subtus pedunculis ramulisque 

 novellis fulvo-hirsutis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis uni- 

 floris, petalis oblongo-lanceolatis exterioribus pauUo minori- 

 bus omnibus utrinque calyceque extus pubescenti-pilosis. 



G. Maypurensis. Humb. et Kunth^ Gen. Am, v. 5. p. 42. De 

 Cand. Prodr. t?. 1* /?. 94. 



Hab. Banks of the river Paquequer, in the Organ Monntains. 



Mr Gardner (2d Coll. n. 306)/ 



Every one who has at all had occasion to study the Anonacece 

 in a dried state, will comprehend the diflBculty of determining 

 specimens, often very incomplete, by the aid of books alone, 

 where they are in general but meagrely described. Such is the 

 case with the present species, of the Genus of which I cannot 

 feel certain jn the absence of fruit. Unwilling to multiply 

 species unnecessarily, I refer it to the Guatteria Maypurensis 

 of Humboldt, with the character of which it suflBciently cor- 

 responds.. Mr Gardner notices it as a much branched shrub, 

 from 10-12 feet high. Its branches are slender and glabrous, 

 except at the extremities, where the young shoots, as well as 

 peduncles, and the middle of the leaves beneath, are clothed 

 with ferruginous patent hairs. The flowers are an inch or an 

 inch and a half in diameter, spreading; the calyx small, exter- 

 nally hirsute. Petals all over downy, hairy at the lower part of 

 the outer ones beneath. 



