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hirtellous, rather densely flowered; flowers in clusters of 1 to 3 at the nodes; pedicels 
hirtous or hirtellous, 3 to 4 mm. long, articulate near the middle; fruiting perianth 
1.7 to 2.3 cm. long, the turbinate-campanulate tube (3.5 to 4mm, long) and the base of 
the lobes densely strigose-pilose; outer segments spatulate-linear, only slightly 
broadened toward the rounded or subtruncate tip, 3-nerved and reticulate, hispidulous 
above with ascending hairs, 1.8 to 2 mm. wide at base, 2.8 to 3.3 mm. wide near apex; 
inner segments linear or linear-subulate, acuminate, at tip acute or obtusish, hir- 
tellous, 4 mm. long, attached to base of tube for about 0.5 mm.; achene conic-ovoid, 
trigonous, deeply 3-grooved, the faces slightly rounded, pilosulous from apex to below 
the middle, 8 mm. long, 2.6 to 3 mm. thick. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 537,606, collected on hills above Santa 
Marta Bay, Santa Marta, Colombia, June, 1916, by H. M. Curran. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
CoLomBIA: Santa Marta, altitude 305 meters, December, 1898-1901, Herbert H. 
Smith 802. Santa Marta, altitude 45 meters, January, 1898-1901, Herbert 
HT. Smith 1932. 
The specimens collected by Smith have been distributed as Ruprechtia tenuiflora 
Benth., but that is described as with veinless perianth segments and setiform inner 
calyx lobes 1 line (2 mm.) long. The species belongs to the section Pseudotriplaris 
Benth. & Hook., as do the two species from Curacao and Venezuela recently de- 
scribed by the writer ' and inadvertently referred to the section Euruprechtia (of 
Meisn., not of Benth. & Hook.). 
Ruprechtia coriacea (Karst.) Blake. 
Triplaris coriacea Karst. Fl. Columb, 2: 131. pl. 169. 1862-1869. 
This species is rather closely related, according to Karsten’s description and plate, 
to R. oxyphylla, but has a larger fruiting calyx with broader acutish outer lobes. 
It was described from the provinces of Barcelona and Caracas, Venezuela. 
Triplaris euryphylla Blake, sp. nov. 
Dioecious tree, 6 meters high, the trunk 10 cm. in diameter; branches dull fuscous 
or grayish, stout, striatulate, sparsely pilose with ascending stiffish hairs, in age 
glabrate; sheath bases persistent, very narrow; petioles broad, very strongly flattened, 
puberulous and strigose-pilose on margin, in age glabrate, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, up to 
5 mm. wide; leaf blades 23 to 27 em. long, 14 to 17 cm. wide, oval, abruptly short-pointed 
(the points 5 to 4 mm. long), very broadly rounded at base, entire, scarcely undulate, 
chartaceous, above dull green, in youth evenly but rather sparsely pilose with loose 
hairs, along the costa densely strigillose, in age glabrate or subglabrate except along 
costa, beneath not paler, similarly pubescent with stiffer, more spreading hairs, the 
lateral veins about 24 pairs, like the secondaries slightly prominulous above, strongly 
so beneath, straightish to near the margin, there arched and anastomosing; leaves 
near the inflorescence much smaller, the blades 13 cm. long, 6 to 6.5 cm. wide, acute 
at both ends; staminate inflorescences axillary and terminal, 3 to 5-branched from the 
base, 15 to 17 em. long, the common peduncle about 1 cm. long, like the slender, rather 
loosely flowered branches densely sordid-pilose with loosely spreading or ascending 
hairs and densely puberulous beneath them; bracts scarious, orbicular, rounded at 
apex, hispid-pilose on back, 2.5 mm. long; flowers about 4 in the axils of the bracts, 
their pedicels about 1.3 mm. long; perianth 5-parted, 1.5 to 2 mm. long, the tube 0.5 
mm. long, the segments elliptic, ciliolate; stamens apparently 8; pistillate inflor- 
escences axillary and terminal, stifi, 3 or 4-branched from near the base, 16.5 to 18.5 
cm, long, densely and rather softly pilose with ascending or spreading sordid hairs 
and densely puberulous beneath them; bracts ovate, acute or obtusish, densely dull- 
pilose and pilosulous outside with ascending or appressed hairs, glabrous inside, 5 to 
! Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. n. ser, 53: 50-31. 1918. 
