Guatteria
(named in honour of John B. Guatteri, an Italian botanist, once Professor at Parma). ORD. Anonaceae. A genus containing about fifty species of very ornamental stove evergreen trees or shrubs, all natives of the warmer parts of the New World. Flowers yellowish-white, greenish, or dusky; peduncles one-flowered, axillary or lateral, solitary or fasciculated. Leaves feather-nerved, alternate, entire, exstipulate. Guatterias thrive in a compost of loam, peat, and sand. Propagation is readily effected by cuttings, inserted in sand, under a glass, in heat. Probably G. Ouregou is the only species in cultivation.
G. Ouregou (Ouregou). fl., peduncles axillary, short, two to four; calyx segments triangular, pointed; petals rusty-velvety, obovate, interior longer; carpids ovoid. l. obovate-oblong, cuspidate, cuneate at the base, shining above, glabrescent beneath; veins prominent. Caribbean Islands. A tall tree. SYN. Anona chrysopetala.