72 ANONACE/E. 
bifaria, magnitudine pro zetate et statione plus minus umbrosà perquam discro- 
pantia, 3 ad 1o poll. longa, 1-plus 3 poll. lata, oblonga, plerumque longissime 
et obtusiuscule acuminata, basi obtusiuscula vel obtusa et inzequaliter subcor- 
data, ad externum baseos latus paullo longius protracta, plana, coriacea, 
rigidiuscula, supra secus longitudinem . coste pube demum prorsus evanidáà 
vestita, ceterum glabra vixque nitentia, venis simplicissimis immersis in pagina 
inferiore canescente-viridi subreticulatis et pariter ac costa elevatis tomento- 
sisque. 
Pzpuxcuxz axillares, solitarii, 5-2 unc. longi, cernui, teretes, sursum quidpiam 
crassiores, inferne prope basin bracteolis aliquot minutis obtusis stipati, et haud 
secus, atque hz et calyx extra, fusco-subsericei. Lacnüce calycis profunde tripartiti 
ovalze, obtusiuscul:, patentes, persistentes. Petala crassa, albentia vel luteola, 
intus convexiuscula, extra concaviuscula ac subsericea, vix acuta : externa iria 
magis patentia ovata; interiora parum longiora, sed angusliora, oblonga, brevi 
post anthesin incurvata, demum patentia. 
SrAwrNA extrinsecus in toro elevato crasso cylindraceo-hemisphzrico dense 
congesta, lineari-clavata, subcomplanata, latere interno coslá argulà versus 
connexivum dilatatum oblique truncatum ambitu angulatum escendente, extrin- 
secus antherá didymá fere usque ad basin staminis perlingente (cujus loculi 
externi internis paullo magis elongati sunt), glabra, inferiora breviora, quam 
superiora ovariis magis approximata. 
Ovanra numerosisissima, oblonga, subtrigona, sericea, unilocularia, ovulis » 
ovalibus parietinis (quorum unum assurgens, alterum. dependens). Stigmata 
sessilia, crassissima, subglobosa vel obconica, extra plerumque magis incrassata, 
confertim puberula, admodum glutinosa, omnia in discum plano-convexum ag- 
glutinata, ab apice ovarii articulatim sese solventia. 
CanpErrA 20-30, abortu pauciora, circa torum globosum umbellata, magnitu- 
dine pisi majoris, superne mucrone parvo compresso apiculata, in medio quan- 
doque subconstricta, e rubicundo atro-purpurea, subbaccata , indehiscentia, pube 
fugaci obducta, pedicellis $ poll. longis vel paullo brevioribus, tetragonis, intus 
sulco obsoleto mucronem versus erepente exaratis. Pericarpium tenue, prope- 
modum exsuccum, aromaticum, intus subsucculentum et dulciusculum. 
Sxursa semirotunda, absque receptaculo suturz pericarpii interna ope papilla 
umbilicalis affixa, horizontalia, vel, ubi unicum adest, versus pericarpii fundum 
suboblique adhzerentia, ad marginem sulco capillari inscripta, pallide cinnamea, 
foveolata. 7'esta spongioso-membranacea, laxiuscula, semen undique obvestiens, 
at tuniez intern: teneriori spadicez processibus numerosis subulatis in albumen 
sese insinuanti arctissime cohzrens. 4lbumen albidum, corneum, fissuris fere 
centro tenus penetrantibus. 
EXPLICATIO TABULARUM. 
; TAB. XXXIII. 
Ramus floridus fructumque ferens. 
