PITTIER—PLANTS FROM COLOMBIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 227 
cm. in diameter; perianth tubular, 2 to 2.5 mm. long, the upper exposed part 
flat, filmy-hairy, the pore round, very small; ovary ovate-lenticular, the style 
short and slender, the stigma capitate, penicillate. 
Type in the U. 8. National Herbarium, no. 479152, collected near Gamboa, 
Canal Zone, Panama, in flower, July 23, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 4056). 
Another collection was made at Culebra, Canal Zone, Panama, in flower, 
July 26, 1911 (Pittier 4060). 
Cecropia asperrima Pittier, sp. nov. 
Leaves coriaceous; petioles 21 to 23 cm. long, 0.5 to 0.7 cm. thick at the base, 
glabrescent but at first grayish or fuliginous-tomentose ; leaf blades peltate, 23 
to 30 cm. in diameter, at first sparsely whitish-tomentose, later dark green 
and very rough above, white-tomentose beneath between the lightly ferrugi- 
nous-tomentose veins; lobes 8 to 10, divided for more than half their length, 
the larger ones 15 to 20 em. long, 6.5 to 9 cm. broad, the smaller ones 7.5 to 
8 cm. long. 
Inflorescences pedunculate, the peduncles more or less villous; spathes snowy 
arachnoid tomentose without. Male inflorescence: peduncles about 3.5 cm. long; 
aments about 25 in the cluster, slender, 3 to 4 cm. long, pedicellate, the pedicels 
villous, 0.5 cm. long; perianth glabrous, smooth, 2-lobulate. Female inflores- 
cence: peduncles 4 to 8 cm. long; aments 4 or 5 together, sessile, 3 to 5 cm. 
long, about 0.8 cm. thick, the flowers united by a filmy white tomentum. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 41708, collected in Nicaragua, 
precise locality not stated, by Charles Wright (U. S. North Pacific Exploring 
Expedition). 
OTHER COLLECTIONS: 
NICARAGUA: Chinandega, flowers, January 13, 1903, C. F. Baker 2007. 
Costa Rica: Nicoya, along roads, flowers, March, 1900, Tonduz (Inst. Fis. 
Geogr. Costa Rica, no. 13870). Llanos de Turficares, common in 
hedges and thickets, flowers, June, 1902, Pittier (Inst. Fis. Geogr. 
Costa Rica, no. 16388). 
The type specimen was labeled C. obtusa Trécul, but in that species the 
male aments are 12 to 15 together and about 10 cm. long, the perianth of the 
male flowers is hirtellous, the female aments are 8 to 9 cm. long and pedicel- 
late, ete. 
Cecropia longipes Pittier, sp. nov. . 
A small tree, sparingly ramified; branchlets undivided, the younger parts 
densely grayish-hirtous. 
Stipules broad, about 9 cm. long, acute, ferruginous, more or less thickly 
covered with white hairs. Leaves coriaceous ; petioles multisulcate, appressed 
whitish pubescent, 35 to 55 cm. long, 1.2 to 1.4 em. thick near the base, the pul- 
vinus densely white-villous; leaf blades peltate, about 40 cm. in diameter,’ the 
upper face more or less densely covered with stiff, short, erect, white hairs, the 
lower face felted-canescent with the prominent venation mixed whitish and fuli- 
ginous-pubescent ; lobes ¥, broad, rounded, the sinuses hardly reaching one-third 
of the distance from center to apex of the blade, the margin entire; largest lobe 
about 29 cm. long and 15 cm. broad. 
Inflorescence pedunculate, the peduncles geminate in the axils of the leaves, 
flattened, more or less densely whitish-villous. Spathes not known. Male in- 
florescence: peduncles about 10 cm. long; aments 50 to 60 together, 4 to 12 cm. 
long, 1 to 2 mm. thick, the clusters on slender hairy pedicels 1 cm. long; pe- 
riaunth tubular or turbinate, angulate, about 0.8 mm. long, the rounded apex 
thick and bilobate; staminal filaments short, broad and flat, the anthers ovoid. 
Female inflorescence: peduncles 65 to 70 em. long; aments 6 in the cluster, 
