BLAKE—REVISION OF RINOREA, 499 
5 to 9 cm. long, the branchlets mostly 3 to 7-flowered; sepals ovate, 2.5 mm. 
long, obtuse, puberulous; petals twice as long as the sepals, ovate, narrowed 
to an obtusish apex, ciliolate and dorsally puberulous; stamens shorter than 
petals, the filaments broad, very short, bearing a gland at base, the anthers 
2-mucronate, the connective scales twice as long, ovate, narrowed to an ob- 
tusish apex, glabrous; ovary villosulous at apex. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Bahia, Brazil. Types collected by Blanchet (nos. 1476, 1496). 
Not seen; description compiled from the original and from Hichler. Eichler 
describes the leaves as 4 to 5 cm. long, but in the original they are described 
and figured as 14 to 3 inches long. The species is close to R. guianensis, but 
may be distinguished by its smaller essentially entire leaves. 
6. Rinorea guianensis Aubl. Pl. Guian, 1: 235. pl. 93. 1775, 
Conohoria rinorea St. Hil. Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 11: 495, excluding synonyms 
in part. 1824, 
Alsodea rinorea Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1: 807. 1825. 
Alsodeia floribunda Moric. Pl. Nouv. Amér. 70. pl. 47. 1839. 
Alsodeia castaneaefolia Eichl. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 13%: 382. 1871. Not Cono- 
horia castanefolia St. Hil., 1824. 
Shrub or tree; branches strigillose, glabrate; leaves alternate; petioles 5 
to 8 mm. long, strigillose, glabrate; blades elliptic to oval or oblong-ovate, 7 
to 15 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 em. wide, acuminate or short-pointed but obtuse, at 
base cuneate to rounded-cuneate, subcoriaceous, crenate-serrate, strigose on 
costa and sometimes on veins beneath; panicles axillary, about 6 cm. long 
and 2 cm. wide, rufid-puberulous, the branches 3 to 5-flowered; sepals ovate 
or oval, 1.5 to 2 mm. long, obtuse, apiculate dorsally below the apex, cilio- 
late and puberulous; petals lance-ovate, 5 mm. long, obtuse, puberulous along 
midline, recurved at apex; stamens 3.3 mm.-long, the filaments broad, 0.3 
mm. long, bearing at base a fleshy triangular gland, the anthers 1.2 mm. long, 
bearing at apex 1 or 2 cusps 0.8 mm, long or less, the connective scales ovate, 
3 mm. long, narrowed to an obtuse apex, glabrous; ovary densely hispid-pi- 
lose, the placentae 1l-ovulate; “capsule oblique, 9 mm. long, tomentellous, 
1-seeded ; seed glabrous.” 
ILusTrRaTions: Aubl. Pl. Guian. pl. 93; Morice. Pl. Nouv. Amér. pl. 47; Mart. 
Fl. Bras. 137: pl. 77, f. 3 (fruit). 
TYFE LOCALITY: Region of Caux, French Guiana, Type, collected by Au- 
blet, in the British Museum. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
FrRENcH GUIANA: Region of Caux, Aublet (sketch of type; N). 
Brazit: Province of Bahia, Blanchet 1626 (type collection of A. flori- 
bunda; Y, photo. N). Monte Corcovado, near Rio de Janeiro, 1839, 
Martius 471 (Y). Without definite locality, Riedel (G, N, Y). 
Kichler used for this species the name Alsodeia castaneaefolia, based on 
Conohoria castanefolia St. Hil, and indicated by a sign of affirmation that 
the name was authenticated by specimens. Study of St. Hilaire’s descrip- 
tions, however, indicates that this course is probably incorrect. Conohoria 
castanefolia was originally described in connection with Conohoria lobo- 
lobo (now Rinorea physiphora), a species with simple racemes, and was dis- 
tinguished from that species by its broader, manifestly serrate, mucronulate 
leaves, its larger flowers, more pubescent pedicels, and very villous ovary 
with suspended ovules. In his memoir on the family, published in the same 
year, St. Hilaire’ described three species: Conohoria lobolobo (of which A. 
*Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 11: 495, 1824. 
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