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about 7 mm. long; connectives brown, very thick, with the pale yellow cells attached 

 laterally on the ventral or inside face. Pistil about 11.5 mm. long; ovary ovoid, 2.5 

 mm. long; style filiform, 8 to 10 mm. long, slightly clavate. Fruits spherical, 4 cm. 

 in diameter, yellow, hanging 2 or 3 together at end of rachis. 



Colombia: Margin of the forest at Cordoba, Dagua Valley, at about GO meters above 

 sea level, in the rain belt of the Pacific Coast, flowers and fruits, December 7, L905, 

 Pittier 512. 



At first this species was referred to the little known Peruvian C. obliqua Sendtn., on 

 account of the decided similarity of <>ur specimens to figure a, plate CLXV, volume 2, 

 of Ruiz & Pavon's Flora Peruviana. The plant from Cordoba, however, is not suf- 

 fruticose but decidedly ligneous and growing to the size of a small tree; the inflores- 

 cence is dichotomous, the corolla greenish with woolly tips, the stamens much longer 

 and more slender than in C. obliqua, and the berries quite round. C. arborea seems 

 to belong in § 2, * * * of Sendtner's systematic arrangement.^ but is quite dis- 

 tinct from any of the species included therein. 

 Cyphomandra naranjilla Pittier, sp. nov. Plate 17. Figure 23. 



A small tree, 2 to 3 meters high. Trunk straight, erect. Branchlets dichotomous, 

 almost horizontal or pendulous. 



Leaves dimorphic-, the cauline or basal ones 5-lobate, the terminal ones, on the 

 branchlets, simple. Basal leaves: petioles thick, 10 to 12 cm. long; blades cordate 

 at base, 24 cm. long, 23 cm. broad, the broad interlobular 

 sinuses reaching two-thirds of the half breadth; lobes lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate; upper face glabrous, dark green; lower 

 face paler, finely granulate. Terminal leaves: petioles 

 slender, 2 to 4 cm. long, finely granular-pubescent; blades 

 coriaceous, 12 cm. long, 5 cm. broad, ovate-lanceolate, cordate 

 or subcordate, long-acuminate. 



Cymes scorpioid, simple, elongate (15 to 25 cm. long), 

 glabrous. Flowers very numerous, caducous, the scars of 

 the pedicels being very prominent on the rachis. Pedicels 

 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, slender, glabrous. Calyx urceolate or 

 cupuliform, about 2.5 mm. deep, obscurely crenate, coria- 

 ceous Corolla about 25 mm. in total length, sparsely hairy Fig. 23.-Stamen and pistil 

 inside, purplish green; tube about 2 mm. long; lobes 23 mm. ^^ZZli " 

 long, 2.5 to 3 mm. broad at base, long-lanceolate, acuminate, 



ciliate. Stamens erect; filaments 3 mm. long; anthers 7 to 8 mm. long, purplish 

 yellow; terminal pores marked by a few diminute erect hairs. Pistil smooth; ovary 

 rounded-conical, 3.5 mm. high; style filiform, elongate, 8 to 10 mm. long; stigma 

 shortly clavate. Fruit egg-shaped, pendulous, yellowish green, the long diameter 5 

 cm., the short diameter 4 cm. 



Colombia: Growing wild in the mountains above Palmira and cultivated in the 

 garden at La Manuelita, near the same town, Cauca Valley, altitude 1,200 to 1,800 

 meters. Our specimens are from the garden, Pittier 914, January 2, 1900 (U. S. 

 National Herbarium no. 531100, type). The fruits, called naranjillus, are edible, 

 very juicy, and with an agreeable, sweet, acidulate flavor. 



This new species belongs to the group of heterophyllous Cyphomandrae, of which 

 C. pendula Sendtn. and C. heterophylla Taub. are the South American types, while 

 the proup is represented in Central America by C. costaricensis Doimell Smith. 



Sendtner & has partially described a considerable number of Colombian forms of this 

 genus, but none of his descriptions seem to apply to our two new species. 



Explanation of Plate 17.— Leaves, flowers, and fruit. From a photograph taken by Mr. C. B. Doyle 

 In the garden at La Manuelita. 



a In Valp. Repert. Bot. 6: 576-579. 1846-47. & Loc. cit. 579. 



