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PSEUDOLMEDIA." 



Three representatives of this genus are found in the eastern valleys 

 of Peru, one on the Pacific slope of Guatemala, and a fifth in the 

 mountains of Cuba, Jamaica, and Porto Rico. The type species is 

 Pseudolmedia Jiavanensis Tr6cul. Of this the author describes and 

 illustrates the flowers, male and female, and a few details of the 

 fruit will be found below. Three more species, all from Peru, are 

 described in the same paper. Of one of these only the female flower 

 is known, drawings of which are given, while of the two others, and 

 also of the newly made P. oxyphyUaria, the male flowers only have 

 been more or less thoroughly reported upon. A sixth species, P. 

 bucidaefolia Bello, 6 is doubtful on account of the assumed two- 

 flowered female receptacles and other characters that do not belong 

 to the genus. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so. 



Primary veins 10 to 12 (?); bracts of male flowers glabrescent. . 1 

 Primary veins 15 or more. 



Leaf blades 5 to 9 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. broad; bracts of 



male flowers pubescent 2 



Leaf blades 15 to 20 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. broad; bracts of 



male flowers distinctly silky 3 



Leaves more or less hairy beneath. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 7 to 16 cm. long, 2 to 4.5 cm. broad, 

 downy beneath on the midrib and primaries, ciliate 



on the margin; stipules silky-ferruginose 



Leaves oblong-elliptic, 13 to 23 cm. long, 5 to 10 cm. broad; 

 midrib and primaries sparsely hairy; stipules densely 

 yellowish silky 5 



1. Pseudolmedia havanensis Trecul, Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 8: 130 

 1847. 



a 



P. havanensis. 



P. laevigata. 

 P. oxyphyUaria. 



. 4. P . ferruginea. 



P. macrophylla. 



pi 5.f. 149-154. 

 Figure 57. 



Fig. 57. -Pseudolmedia havanensis, floral details, a, Upper bract of Involucre with three stamens 

 inserted at the base, the middle one abortive; 6, one of the Bpatulate bractlets intermingled with 

 the anthers; c, stamen; d, female flower; e, the same without its squamose involucre; /, the same 

 opened longitudinally to show insertion of the pendent ovule. Variously enlarged. From Trecul 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 8: pi. 6. ' 



Pseudolmedia spuria Griseb, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 152. 1864. 



« Pseudolmedia Trecul, Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 8: 130. pl.5.f. 149-154. 1847. 

 6 Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat, 12: 109. 1883. 



