PITTIER—-PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 165 
3.5 mm. long; anthers 2.8 mm. long, basifix, elliptic-oblong, emarginate at the base, 
bifid at tip. Pistil about 7 mm. long; ovary softly echinate and pubescent, rounded, 
1-celled, the many ovules inserted on 3 parietal placentas; style slender, 6 mm. long, 
pubescent on its lower half; stigma inconspicuous, obscurely 3-lobulate. 
Fruit a rounded, 1-celled, echinate capsule, 3-dehiscent, about 1 em. in diameter, 
borne on pedicels about 1.5 cm. long and surmounted by the persistent style, this 
usually shorter than the bristles, these about 8 mm. long, thick at the base, long- 
attenuate, hispid. Seeds 1 to 4, ovoid, subangulate, about 4 mm. long. 
Soutu Mexico: Western coast, Haenke (type). 
Costa Rica: Coastal plain of Banana River, fruit, January, 1898, Pittier, Inst. 
Fis. Geogr. Costa Rica, no. 12167; Térraba, fruit, February, 1891, Tonduz, Inst. Fis. 
Geogr. Costa Rica, no. 4000; Mano de Tigre, fruit, April, 1898, Pittier, Inst. Fis. 
Geogr. Costa Rica, no. 12104. (Allin U.S. Nat. Herb.). 
Panama: Vicinity of San Felix, eastern Chiriquf, flowers and fruit, December, 
1911, Pittier 5228 (U. 8. Nat. Herb.); common in Veraguas in forests (Seemann)!; 
Agua Clara, Trinidad River, Canal Zone, flowers, July 19, 1911, Pittier, 3991 (U. S. 
Nat. Herb.); Panama (Duchassaing); railroad station at Gatun, Canal Zone, flowers, 
December 31, 1860, Hayes 15, 18 (U. S. Nat. Herb.). 
CoLomBIA: Muzo, around the emerald mines (Goudot).2 This indication is 
doubtful. 
According to Seemann ! the flowers cf this species have never been described, and 
as only Presl’s original description, limited mainly to the leaves and fruits, could 
be found, it was thought that a complete description had its place here. 
SAPOTACEAE. 
SPECIES, MOSTLY NEW, OF CHRYSOPHYLLUM, LUCUMA, AND 
BUMELIA. 
Chrysophyllum panamense Pittier, sp. nov. Ficure 90. 
A medium-sized tree, with rounded crown. Bark grayish, smooth on the trunk, 
minutely verruculose on the branchlets. Young shoots, leaves, and inflorescences 
more or less brownish-pubescent. 
Leaves rather large, entirely glabrous or more or less 
pubescent on the petiole, costa, and veins, dark green 
above and grayish beneath. Petioles10to12mm. long, 
deeply canaliculate. Leaf blade elliptic-acuminate, 
shortly pointed at base, 7 to 21 cm. long, 4 to 8 cm. 
broad. Costa deeply impressed, the 20 to 24 primary 
nerves hardly distinct above, both prominent beneath. 
Flowers about 5 mm. long, 16 to 30 and more in axil- 
lary clusters. Pedicels and calyx silky-pubescent, the 
former 6 mm. long. Sepals 5 (2+3), broadly ovate, 
rounded at tip, 1.5 mm. long, thick, and coriaceous, 
Corolla greenish yellow, about 4.8 mm. long; lobes 5, 
short (1.2 mm.), pubescent on the outside, with irregu- F1G.90.— Chrysophyllum panamense. 
larly denticulatemargin. Stamens5;anthersapiculate. a, Flower; b, same deprived of the 
Ovary 5-celled, short-pubescent;styleaboutlmm.long, ©Folla; ¢, the corolla spread open 
smooth, and ending in 5 very short but distinct stigmas.  ‘°SHowStamens. Scale3. 
Fruit not known. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 679089, collected along the Sirri River, 
Trinidad Basin, Province of Colon, Panama, near sea level, flowers, July 20, 1911, by 
H. Pittier (no. 4005). 
1 Bot. Voy. Herald 79. 1852. 
? Triana & Planch. Prodr. Fl. Novogran. 1: 94. 1862. 
