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approximate, parallel, prominulous, slightly paler beneath and dull, the costa | 
salient, the lateral nerves prominulous, the margin thickened; racemes axil- 
lary, mostly 5-flowered, short-pedunculate, about 2.5 cm. long, the rachis and 
pedicels obscurely puberulent, the latter 2 to 4 mm. long, stout, opposite, the 
bracts minute, deciduous; polygamous flowers 8 to 10 mm. broad, the sepals 4, 
more or less cucullate, minutely scaberulous on the margins; stamens numerous. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 860362, collected at Los Pinos, 
near: Tonalf, Chiapas, Mexico, December 13, 1906, by G. N. Collins and C. B. 
Doyle (no, 59). . 
Calophyllum chiapense is related to some of the forms of C. brasiliense, but 
is distinguished by the smaller, relatively narrower leaf blades, these being 
usually broadest slightly above the middle. In the latter species, too, the 
racemes are usually much longer and the flowers smaller. 
The present species is known in Chiapas as “leche de Marfa.” The wood is 
used for making cart wheels. 
THREE NEW SPECIES OF EBENACEAE FROM TROPICAL AMERICA. 
In the last paper of this series the writer described five new 
species of Maba and Diospyros from Mexico. The three following 
ones are based upon additional material now available for study. 
Maba nicaraguensis Standl., sp. nov. 
Tree, 4.5 to 6 meters high, with a short trunk and dense rounded crown; 
branches grayish, the branchlets densely puberulent; petioles stout, 5 to 6 
mm. long, densely fulvous-pilose with short hairs; leaf blades oblong or oblong- 
obovate, 5.5 to 8 em. long, 2.2 to 3.8 cm. wide, rounded to cuneate at the base, 
obtuse or acutish at the apex, coriaceous, grayish green above, velvety-pilose 
with short grayish hairs, the costa plane, the lateral veins inconspicuous, 
brownish beneath, copiously pilose with short slender hairs, the costa and 
lateral veins prominent, the latter about 7 on each side, irregular, the trans- 
verse veins prominulous, laxly reticulate, the margin plane or subrevolute; 
fruit globose, about 2.2 cm. in diameter, umbonate, densely fulvous-sericeous 
near the apex, subsessile, solitary; calyx trilobate to the middle, about 2 cm. 
broad, densely fulvous-tomentulose, the lobes broadly rounded, reflexed. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 862725, collected on dry hills, 
Granada, Nicaragua, February 16, 1903, by C. F. Baker (no. 629). 
This is the first species of Maba to be reported from Central America. It is 
related, perhaps, to M. albens (Presl) Hiern, a species with thin leaves, canes- 
cent-tomentulose beneath. 
Maba rekoi Standl., sp. nov. 
Branchlets brown, rimose, densely fulvous-pilose when young with short 
hairs, glabrate in age; petioles stout, 4 to 5 mm. long, hirtellous; leaf blades 
oval or oval-oblong, 10 to 11 cm. long, 5 to 5.5 cm. wide, rounded at the base, 
very obtuse or rounded at the apex, chartaceous, bright green above, minutely 
pilose or glabrate, the costa impressed, grayish green beneath, minutely pilose 
with spreading hairs, the costa and lateral veins very prominent, the latter 
6 or 7 on each side, arcuate, the transverse veins prominent, laxly reticulate, 
the margin subrevolute; fruit globose, 1.5 to 2 cm. in diameter, glabrous, short- 
pedunculate, solitary ; calyx deeply 3-lobate, 1.5 to 2 cm. broad, densely puberu- 
lent, the lobes broadly rounded, reflexed. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 842523, collected at Puerto Angel, 
Oaxaca, Mexico, September 28, 1917, by B. P. Reko (no. 3429). 
