130 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Inflorescence cauline, racemose, loose, subpendulous, usually 3-fasciculate, 
the rachis angular, pubescent, 4 to 10 cm. long, sometimes branched at the 
base. Flowers 2 to 6 together on a short common peduncle, white, the pedicels 
about 1 mm. long. Calyx tubular, 4 to 5 mm. long, densely minute-pubescent 
without, 5-toothed. Petals 5, linear-cuneiform, obtuse, about 6 mm. long, 
glabrous, reflexed, bearing inside a hairy, bifid, erect, slightly longer appendage 
inserted above the claw. Disk cupulate, 15 mm. high, hairy. Stamens 8, 
glabrous, the filaments 4 mm. long, erect, the anthers introrse. Ovary 3-celled; 
stigma 3-lobulate, hairy, sessile. 
Fruit not known. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 716600, collected in the forests 
around Pinogana, southern Darién, Panama, in blossom, April 16, 1914, by 
H. Pittier (no, 6534). 
This species belongs to the section Kutalisia, subsection Acladodia Radlk., 
characterized by having the petals markedly longer than the sepals, and the 
disk high and formed of 5 thick, connate scales, and by the large leaves. It 
seems to be closely related to 7. stricta Triana & Planch., from which it differs 
by the glabrous leaves, petals, and stamens. Talisiga panamensis. grows scat- 
tered on small, lightly wooded hills in the forests of Darién, where it is easily 
detected on account of the peculiar appearance of its young leaves. It is the 
second representative of the genus reported from Panama, the first one, 
T. nervosa Radlk., having also been discovered by me, in 1911, on the Atlantic 
seaboard. 
LECYTHIDACEAE. 
A NEW SPECIES OF MONKEY-POT FROM COLOMBIA. 
Lecythis curranii Pittier, sp. nov. 
A tree, 30 meters high, the trunk 90 em. in diameter at the base. 
Leaves not known. 
Inflorescence not known, Flowers pedicellate, about 4 em. in diameter ; 
pedicels 9 to 10 mm. long, thick, tomentellous. Calyx tomentellous, the sepals 
narrow-triangular, acute, 6 to 7 mm. long, entire. Petals 6, ovate or obovate, 
conchoid, rounded at the apex, 2 to 2.5 cm. long, 0.8 to 1.5 em. broad, glabrous. 
Androphore ring about 1.5 em. in diameter, the ligule 1.5 em. long and broad, 
the galea ovate, broader than long. Filaments clavate; anthers ovate-globose. 
Ovary 4-celled, slightly convex above, the stigma almost sessile in the center. 
Pyxidium ovoid, dark brown and smooth without, 17 cm. high (including 
operculum), the walls about 2.5 em. thick, woody, the basal part 11.5 em. high; 
calycary zone not very prominent, 6-lobed, 12.5 em, in diameter; interzonal 
band 3.5 em. high, 8 cm. in diameter at the apex on the margin of the opercu- 
lum; operculum convex, slightly depressed at the center, 2 cm. thick. Seeds 
not known. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 537552, collected on the trail 
from Noros{ to Tiquisio, Department of Bolivar, Colombia, in flower and fruit, 
April-May, 1916, by H. M. Curran. 
Miers reported and described from Colombia the following species: 
Lecythis ampullaria Miers, Lecythis elliptica H. B. K. 
Lecythis bogotensis Miers, Lecythis dubia H. B. K. 
Lecythis ampla Miers. Lecythis minor Jacq. 
The first three we know only by their fruits, the descriptions of which do 
not agree with the above specimens; one of these species, L. ampla, has been 
found again by me in the forests of the San Blas Coast of Panama. Of the 
three latter species, which have small fruits, one, L. elliptica, is relatively well 
known and has been collected in recent years by H. H. Smith, H. M. Curran, 
