BLAKE—NEW SOUTH AMERICAN SPERMATOPHYTES. 241 
This species was collected in flower and fruit in the Rio Grongogy Basin, Bahia, 
Brazil, in 1915, by Mr. Curran (no. 13). It is said to be a tree about 30 meters high, 
with a trunk 45 cm. in diameter, and to bear the vernacular name ‘‘pau de vintem.”’ 
Respecting the combination above made, it may be observed that the figure of 
Vellozo is unusually good for the work in which it appears, and thoroughly character- 
istic of the species. The specific name, obviously derived from the habitat of the 
species, ‘‘ad ripas fluvii Parahyba dicti,” is written by Vellozo with a lower-case 
initial and is consequently to be treated as an adjective requiring modification in 
termination under the new combination here proposed. 
Guarea racemiformis Blake, sp. nov. 
Tree, 5 meters high, the trunk 10 cm. in diameter; older branches dull gray, gla- 
brate, the younger fuscous, strigillose; petioles sulcate above, rounded beneath, rather 
densely dull-strigillose, 2 to 3.2 cm. long; rachis similar, 4 to 7.5 cm. long, terminated 
by a plumule; leaflets 4 pairs, opposite, the lowest pair 4 cm. long, 2.2 cm. wide, 
the middle and upper 8 to 10.3 em. long, 3.2 to 4 cm. wide, on sparsely strigillose 
petiolules 2 to 4 mm. long, oblong-elliptic, short-pointed, blunt at the tip, cuneate 
or rounded-cuneate and subequal at base, entire, pergamentaceous, somewhat pellucid- 
punctate, above obscurely strigillose, at length glabrate, beneath obscurely and 
sparsely strigillose along the costa and chief veins, otherwise glabrous, the costa im- 
pressed above, prominulous beneath like the 6 to 9 ascending lateral veins and the 
reticulate secondaries; peduncles axillary and on the previous year’s wood, strigillose, 
5 to 7 mm. long; rachis 2.5 to 7 cm. long; panicles racemiform, slenderly: cylindric, 
1.5 to 1.8 em. thick, the branches very short, 2 or 3-flowered; pedicels 0.6 mm. long 
or lesa; calyx cup-shaped, 2.5 mm. long, very sparsely strigillose, somewhat spath- 
aceous, splitting irregularly into 3 or 4 lobes, these deltoid, obtuse, tufted-ciliolate 
at apex; petals 4 or 5, oblong-oval, obtuse, densely subsericeous-strigose without, 
glabrous within, 6 mm. long; staminal tube shorter than petals, glabrous on both 
sides except for the ciliolate apex, entire; anthers 8 to 10, borne inside the tube below 
its apex, subsessile, oblong-obovate, truncate, glabrous, 1 mm. long; disk stipitiform, 
glabrous; ovary sparsely hispid-strigose with yellowish hairs above the middle, 
4-celled, the cells 1-ovuled; style about twice as long as ovary, rather sparsely hispid - 
strigose nearly to apex; stigma flat, circular. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 537,250, collected in the vicinity of 
San Martin de Loba, Lands of Loba, Department of Bolfvar, Colombia, April or May, 
1916, by Hf. M. Curran (no. 96). 
A species noteworthy for the occurrence of both 4 and 5-merous flowers, and for 
the fact that the racemiform panicles on the same specimen occur both in the axils 
of leaves of the year and from axils on the branchlets of the preceding year. 
Trichilia alta Blake, sp. nov. 
Tree, 30 meters high, the trunk 50 cm. in diameter, the branches grayish brown, 
in youth densely strigillose, in age glabrescent; petioles stoutish, sulcate above like 
the rachis, rather densely strigose, 1 to 1.5 cm. long; rachis 4.5 cm. long, puberulous 
with spreading sordid hairs; leaflets 7 to 9, alternate, 8 to 9.5 cm. long, 2.7 to 4 cm. 
wide (the terminal leaflet largest), elliptic or obovate-elliptic, acuminate, rounded 
at base, entire, thinly coriaceous, puberulous along costa and veins above, otherwise 
glabrous, rather densely puberulous with spreading hairs along the costa beneath, 
strigose or strigillose along the veins and sparsely between them, dull green above, 
fuscous beneath when dry, the lateral veins about 15 pairs, like the costa impressed 
above, prominulous beneath, the venation otherwise obscure; petiolules densely 
strigillose, 1 to 2.8 mm. long; panicles axillary, solitary or in pairs, pyramidal or 
conic, branched from near the base, densely short-pubescent with short, dull, appressed 
or ascending hairs, 2.5 to 4 cm. long, 1.8 to 3.3 cm. wide; peduncles 3 to 20 mm. long; 
cymules 1 to 3-flowered; pedicels 1 mm. long, sordid-puberulous; calyx 5-lobed for 
