BLAKE—REVISION OF RINOREA. 497 
Leaves strigose or hispid-pilose, but not puberulous, 
on the veins beneath; connective scales oyal- 
oblong__-------------------- 36. R. squamata. 
FiJaments not half as long as the anther cells; connec- 
tive scales 2.8 to 3.5 mm. long. 
Stamens 3.5 mm. long, the filaments exceeding the 
glands______-------------------- 28. R. deflexa. 
Stamens 3.8 to 4.2 mm. long, the glands exceeding the 
filaments_____-_-_-------------- 37. R. pilosula. 
1. Rinorea andina (Tulasne) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1:42. 1891. 
Alsodeia andina Tulasne, Ann. Sci. Nat. III. Bot. 7: 366. 1847. 
Tree, glabrous; leaves alternate; petioles 5 mm. long; blades ovate-lanceo- 
late or lanceolate, 10 to 15 cm. long, 4 to 5 em. wide, acute or acuminate, acute 
at base, obscurely serrulate; cymes twice bifid, 4-flowered, 1 cm. long; pedicels 
1 em. long; sepals suborbicular, very obtuse, the inner broader and thinner ; 
corolla thrice as long as calyx, the petals elliptic-ovate, 8 mm. long, acute, 
deflexed at apex; stamens 3 mm. long, the filaments short, broad, bearing a 
gland at apex, connate below into an annulus, alternating with minute teeth, the 
anthers obtuse, about 1 mm. long, not appendaged, each connective dilated at 
apex into an ovate, acute, somewhat erose scale; ovary glabrous, the placentae 
pearing numerous 3 to 6-seriate ovules; fruit oblong-fusiform, 3 cm. long; seeds 
numerous, glabrous. 
Type LOCALITY: Near La Trocha, in the Cordillera Central of Colombia. 
Type in the herbarium of the Jardin des Plantes, collected by Goudot (no 138). 
Not seen; description condensed from that of Tulasne. M. Gagnepain of the 
Paris Herbarium has kindly communic::ted notes on the petals and the struc- 
ture of the stamens. 
2. Rinorea dichotoma Rusby, Deser. New So. Amer. Pl. 61. 1920. PLATE 31. 
Tree; branchlets glabrous; leaves alternate; petioles glabrous, 3 to 6 mm. 
long; blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 10 to 14 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 em. wide, 
obtusely acuminate, cuneate at base, remotely repand-serrulate, glabrous, 
papery, the lateral veins about 8 pairs, the secondaries loosely prominulous- 
reticulate; peduncles glabrous, axillary, about 4 mm. long; cymes 8 to 12 
mm. long, once or twice bifid, the branches densely covered with small ciliolate 
persistent bracts and the pedicels of fallen flowers, bearing at apex 1 or 2 
flowers; pedicels glabrous, 8 to 14 mm. long; sepals orbicular, 1.8 to 2.4 mm, 
long, broadly rounded, slightly fleshy, ciliolate, not evidently nerved; petals 
white, oblong-ovate, 9 mm. long, obtuse, slightly spreading at apex, obscurely 
ciliolate below; stamens 3.8 mm. long, the filaments very broad, 0.8 mm. long, 
connate for two-thirds their length, glabrous, bearing at apex a fleshy rounded 
gland 0.3 mm. long, the anthers oblong-ovate, 2 mm. long, not appendaged, each 
connective dilated at apex into an ovate obtuse brownish scale, this 3 or 4-den- 
ticulate at apex, obscurely erose toward base; ovary glabrous, ovoid, the placen- 
tae about 12-ovulate, the ovules about 3-seriate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Above Valparaiso, Colombia. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Cotompia: Above Valparafso, vicinity of Santa Marta, altitude 1,525 
meters, 1898-99, Herbert H. Smith 1492 (type; Y, photograph N). 
This species with R. andina and R. gossypium forms a small group very 
different from all other American species in their comparatively large flowers 
in dense, once or twice bifurcate cymes, with the filaments connate into a 
ring below, the connectives dilated into scales only at apex above the tips 
of the anthers, and the ovules very numerous and several-seriate. Distinct 
