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Rollinia deliciosa, Safford. Biriba. Fig. 3423. A tree yielding a delicious, large, juicy fr., resembling the cherimoya: vegetative lvs. obovate-oblong or elliptical, rounded at the base and normally acuminate at the apex, blades 8-11 in. long and 3-4 in. broad, membrana- ceous, when young sparsely canescent-hirtellous above, densely so beneath, especially along the midrib and nerves, at length glabrous above and beneath except along the midrib and primary nerves (18-22 on each side), these reddish brown and slender but prominent beneath; petiole about 2/5in. long: lvs. on flowering branches smaller, the lowermost ones relatively shorter and broader, sometimes broadly ovate or orbicular, 1 2/5-2 2/5 in. long and 1 2/5-2 in. broad: peduncles lf.- opposed, often in pairs, sometimes solitary, rarely in 3's, 1-1 3/5 in. long, bearing a small ovate sessile brac- teole near the middle, strigillose with reddish hairs, like the petioles and nerves of the lowermost lvs. (prophylla) beneath: calyx and corolla canescent- puberulous; corolla-wings compressed laterally, widely diverging and decurved, rounded at the extremity; stamens numerous, closely crowded, the expanded connectives forming a pavement above the pollen-sacs; carpels numerous, ovaries hairy, styles expanded, glandular-puberulpus: fr. a solid depressed subglobose syncarpium, 3-5 in. diam. with the areoles distinctly outlined and terminating in an obtuse beak; peduncle straight and woody, about 2 in. long; pulp fleshy, white or cream-colored, juicy, fine-flavored; seeds compressed, 3/5-4/5in. long and 8-25-2/5in. broad, rounded at the apex, gradually narrowing to the base, hilum not prominent; testa thin, brown, wrinkled by the inclosed ruminate endosperm.—The type of this species, in the U. S. National Herbarium, is from a fr.-bearing tree cult, in the experiment station, Miami, Fla., grown from seeds sent by C. F. Baker from Para, Brazil (No. 22512) in 1908. Baker describes it as the finest annonaceoua fruit of Trop. Amer. It was incorrectly referred to R. ortho- petala, but it is readily distinguished from that species by the decurved wings of its fls.
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Rollinia orthopetala, A. DC. A shrub or small tree with the habit
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of R. Sieberi, but with the lvs. somewhat longer petioled: lvs.  
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oval-oblong, acute at apex and base, pilose: peduncles in pairs:
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calyx-lobes smaller than in R. Sieberi; corolla-wings erect and  
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incurved: fr. not described.—This species was described by De Candolle
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from a specimen in the De Candolle Herbarium collected by Parker near
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Demarara, British Guiana. The name has been incorrectly applied to
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several rollinias with edible fr. Of these the principal
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Rollinia orthopetala, A. DC. A shrub or small tree with the habit
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of R. Sieberi, but with the lvs. somewhat longer petioled: lvs.
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oval-oblong, acute at apex and base, pilose: peduncles in pairs:  
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calyx-lobes smaller than in R. Sieberi; corolla-wings erect and  
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incurved: fr. not described.—This species was described by De Candolle
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from a specimen in the De Candolle Herbarium collected by Parker near
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Demarara, British Guiana. The name has been incorrectly applied to
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several rollinias with edible fr. Of these the principal
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speies, from an economic point of view,is R deliciosa describe above,  
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which is readely distinguished from R.orthopetala by its widely
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spreading decurved corollawings.
 
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Read about Annona mucosa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Rollinia orthopetala, A. DC. A shrub or small tree with the habit of R. Sieberi, but with the lvs. somewhat longer petioled: lvs. oval-oblong, acute at apex and base, pilose: peduncles in pairs: calyx-lobes smaller than in R. Sieberi; corolla-wings erect and incurved: fr. not described.—This species was described by De Candolle from a specimen in the De Candolle Herbarium collected by Parker near Demarara, British Guiana. The name has been incorrectly applied to several rollinias with edible fr. Of these the principal Rollinia orthopetala, A. DC. A shrub or small tree with the habit of R. Sieberi, but with the lvs. somewhat longer petioled: lvs. oval-oblong, acute at apex and base, pilose: peduncles in pairs: calyx-lobes smaller than in R. Sieberi; corolla-wings erect and incurved: fr. not described.—This species was described by De Candolle from a specimen in the De Candolle Herbarium collected by Parker near Demarara, British Guiana. The name has been incorrectly applied to several rollinias with edible fr. Of these the principal speies, from an economic point of view,is R deliciosa describe above, which is readely distinguished from R.orthopetala by its widely spreading decurved corollawings.


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