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and myself, and the two remaining are evidently distinct from the large- 
fruited species here described. 
A comparison with the species of the neighboring countries gave likewise 
negative results, so that the species may safely be considered new to science, 
and be named after Mr. Curran, its discoverer. 
THEOPHRASTACEAE. 
NEW SPECIES OF JACQUINIA AND CLAVIJA. 
Jacquinia nemophila Pittier, sp. nov. 
A shrub or small tree, about 3 meters high, sparsely branched, the branchlets 
more or less geniculate, the bark brownish or yellowish, glabrous and smooth. 
Leaves opposite, sparse, glabrous; petioles canaliculate, 3 to 4 mm, long, 
dark-colored ; blades oblong-elliptic, cuneately long-attenuate at the base, obtuse 
or subacute at the apex, 9 to 16 cm. long, 3 to 4.5 cm. broad, dark green above, 
the costa impressed, the venation prominulous (in the dry plant) and loosely 
reticulate, beneath paler, the costa prominent and the venation inconspicuous. 
Inflorescence racemose, axillary or terminal, 2 to 5-flowered, 2 to 3 cm. long, 
the peduncle 3 to 5 mm. long, the pedicels minutely pubescent, 6 to 8 mm. long. 
Flowers subnutant. Sepals imbricate, suborbicular, about 4.5 mm. long and 
5 mm. broad, sparsely ciliate. Corolla yellow, glabrous, the tube about 6 mm. 
long, the lobes suborbicular, about 6 mm. long and 8 mm. broad, reflexed. Stami- 
nodes squamiform, 3 to 3.5 mm. long, 4 to 45 mm. broad, rounded, obtuse, 
irregularly sinuate on the margin. Stamens 4.5 to 5 mm. long, the anthers 
obovate, obtuse, apiculate, the cells acute and divaricate at the base. Ovary 
ovoid, glabrous, about 8 mm. long; style glabrous, about 1.3 mm. long, ending 
in a subcapitellate stigma. 
Fruit globose, golden yellow, about 3 cm, in diameter; seeds ovoid or oblong, 
flattened, brownish, 11 to 18 mm. long, 9 to 10 mm. broad, 3 to 4 mm. thick. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 679486, collected in the humid 
forests of the littoral plain of Sperdf, near Puerto Obaldia, San Blas Coast, 
Panama, in flower and fruit, September 3, 1911, by H. Pittier (no. 4342). 
This species is quite distinct from Jacquinia macrocarpa, described by Cava- 
nilles from the semiarid district of the Pacific ccast of Panama. Its leaves are 
sparse, opposite, and not mucronate-spinescent ; the flowers are large and rather 
pale yellow, etc. The two species have in common the relatively large fruits, 
in which the seeds are surrounded by a sweet pulp, formed by the dissepiments 
of the placentas. The habit of J. nemophila is striking for the genus on account 
of the long, sparse, and bare ramification, with geniculate, semipendent branch- 
lets, Another peculiarity of this species is the fact that it is found in the rain 
forests of eastern Panama, while most of the species hitherto known are 
characteristic of arid or semiarid districts of tropical America. 
In the key given by Mez in his elaboration of the Theophrastaceae’* J. nemo- 
phila would come in group A, near J. keyensis and J. revoluta, but it differs 
from both in habit and in the shape of the anthers, corolla lobes, and stami- 
nodes; from J. keyensis it is distinguished also by its large fruit, and from 
J. revoluta by its large, yellow flowers. 
Clavija costaricana Pittier, sp. nov. 
A shrub, 1 to 2 meters high, entirely glabrous. 
Leaves large, coriaceous; petioles 2 to 4 cm. long, rather slender, subangular, 
blackish on the lower half (in the dry plant) ; blades obovate-elliptic, cyneately 
long-attenuate and subdecurrent at the base, more or less attenuate-acutate at 
the apex, 30 to 50 cm. long, 10 to 15 cm. broad, light green above, paler be- 
1In Engl. Pflanzenreich IV. 236a: 29. 1908. 
