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less spatulate. Stipules caducous, lanceolate, acute, 18 to 20 mm. long, 4 to 5 mm. 
broad, pubescent outside. 
Staminate inflorescence in sessile cymes in the axils of leaves or else on the branch- 
lets. Pistillate flowers probably isolated in the axils of leaves. Bracts hairy, small, 
narrow, and acute. Staminate flowers on pedicels about 4 mm. long. Floral bud 
ovoid, 5 mm. long, 4 mm. broad; sepals 2. Petals 
pinkish white, the 3 exterior 5 mm. long and 3.5 to 4 
mm. broad, the 4 interior 6 mm. long and 2.5 mm. 
broad. Stamens about 24; filaments not over 0.5 
mm. long, flattened, broader at base; anthers linear. 
Pollen grains 0.09 mm. in diameter, with 3 or more 
poral points. 
Pistillate flower unknown. 
Fruit reddish, short-pedunculate, ovate, 3.5 cm. 
long, 2 cm. in transverse diameter, provided with 10 
puberulent wings. 
Costa Rica: In forest around Banana River near 
Port Limon; Cook & Doyle, no. 424, flowers and fruit, 
May, 1903 (U. S. National Herbarium no. 474262, 
type, and no. 474263). 
Aegiphila anomala Pittier, sp.nov. Ficure 19. 
A small tree, 4.5 meters high, sparsely branched. 
Leaves bunched at the ends of the shoots, shortly 
petiolate (petioles 1 to 2 cm. long); leaf blades 17 
to 26 cm. long, 6 to 8 cm. broad, obovate, obtusely 
acuminate, long-cuneiform, paler beneath, smooth on 
both sides, with an entire, slightly revolute margin. 
Flowers very odorous, in axillary, rather few- 
flowered cymes. Calyx 10 to 11 mm. long, rather 
narrow, campanulate, truncate, 3 to 5-parted, very 
much enlarged in the ripe 
fruit; lobules irregular, 3 
mm. deep, slightly emargi- 
nate. Corolla rotaceous, rather small and included jn calyx; 
tube subconical, 7 mm. long; lobes 5, about 6 mm. long, 
2 ovate, obtuse, imbricate, white. Stamens 5, equal, inserted 
a very low on tube; scarcely emerging, finely hairy; filaments 
Fig. 19.—(a) Ovary and slender, slightly shorter than anthers; anthers elliptic-elongate, 
(b) stamen of Aegiphila §-ming a tube around style. Ovary superior, spherical, sur- 
anomala. a, 6, Scale © ? , 
about 3. mounted by a slender, smooth style, this divided into two 
long filiform, woolly stigmas, emerging above the anthers. 
Fruit a hard nutlet, surrounded almost completely by the enlarged (15 mm. long, 15 
mm. thick), verrucose calyx, almost spherical, 9 mm. in djameter, with a large stigmatic 
impression on tip, imperfectly 4-celled, with only one cell occupied by one seed. 
This species belongs to the Cymosae amarinae. 
Costa Rica: Forests of Rio Hondo, anos de Santa Clara, H. Pittier, flowers and 
fruit, July 5, 1903 (Instituto fis.-geog. Costa Rica, no. 16711; type U. 8. National 
Herbarium no. 578905). 
Fic. 18.—Leaf margin of Carpotroche 
crassiramea. Natural size. 
