506 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 
6 to 13 em. long, 2.5 to 6.5 cm. wide, acutely acuminate (the point 6 to 12 mm. 
long), subcuneate at base, obscurely denticulate, chartaceous, above glabrous 
except for the minutely furfuraceous-pubescent costa, beneath glabrous, 
shining, the veins (7 or 8 pairs) and reticulate veinlets prominulous on both 
sides; panicles racemiform, terminal and axillary, 1.5 to 8 cm. long, shortly 
spreading-pubescent, the lower branches with 5 flowers or fewer, the pedicels 
2 mm, long, the bracts 1 mm. long, pubescent and ciliolate; sepals broadly ovate, 
1 to 12 mm, long and wide, short-cuspidate or apiculate, ciliolate; petals 
lanceolate, 4.5 mm. long, 1.7 to 2 mm. wide, obtuse, revolute above; filaments 
0.5 mm. long, 0.6 mm. wide, the connective scales narrowly lanceolate, 
3 mm. long, 1 to 1.1 mm. wide, the anthers ovate, 1.5 mm. long, minutely 
biapiculate; ovary fulvous-velutinous, the placentae 2-ovulate, the style pubes- 
cent in its lower third, 3 mm. long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Salt Creek, British Honduras. Type collected by Hummel. 
Description compiled from the original. The local name is given as “ wild 
coffee.” The collector states that the young plants are often mistaken for 
mahogany seedlings. 
18. Rinorea sylvatica (Seem.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1:42. 1891, as R. 
silvatica. 
Alsodeia sylvatica Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 79, pl. 14. 1852. 
Shrub or small tree; branchlets puberulent and hispid-pilose, glabrate; leaves 
opposite; petioles 3 to 6 mm. long, similarly pubescent; blades oval-obovate or 
_obovate, 6 to 12 em. long, 2.8 to 5.5 cm. wide, short-acuminate, narrowed to an 
oblique subcordate base, crenate-serrulate or subentire, papery, puberulous on 
costa above, beneath on the veins and toward margin puberulous and hispid- 
pilose or strigose; racemes about 4 cm. Jong, rather dense, densely hispid-pilose 
with rufescent erect or appressed hairs, the pedicels 2 mm. long or usually less, 
exceeded by the bracts and bractlets; sepals ovate, 3 to 4.5 mm. long, acute, dry, 
indurated, scarious-margined, strongly many-nerved, hispid with erect rufescent 
hairs; petals oblong, yellowish white, 5 mm. long, obscurely short-pointed but 
obtuse, spreading at apex, rufescent-hispid along midline with erect hairs; 
stamens 3.5 mm. long, the filaments 0.8 mm. long, not bearing a gland, the an- 
thers 1.5 mm. long, sometimes 1-mucronate at apex, the connective scales 
elliptic-ovate, narrowed to an obtuse apex, entire or obscurely erose below, ap- 
pressed-rufescent-hispid on back above middle; ovary densely rufescent-hispid, 
the placentae 3-ovulate; capsule oblong-ellipsoid, 2.2 em. long, spreading-puber- 
ulous ; seeds about 3 to each placenta, subglobose, 4.5 mm. thick, densely spread- 
ing-puberulous with sordid hairs. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Cruces, Panama. Type collected by Seemann. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
PANAMA: Along Cafio Quebrado, Canal Zone, June, 1914, Pittier 6665 (N). 
CoLoMBIA: Forest, Boca Verde, on Rio Sin, Department of Bolivar, al- 
titude 100 to 300 meters, 1918, Pennell 4212 (G, Y), 4569 (Y). 
Distinct in its dry, indurate, strongly striate, hispid sepals only slightly 
shorter than the petals, and short pedicels exceeded by the bracts and bractlets. 
19. Rinorea martini (Turcz.) Blake. 
Alsodeja martini Turcz. Bull. Soc, Nat. Moscou 36 7: 557. 1863. 
Leaves opposite; petioles very short; blades rhombic-ovate, long-pointed, 
narrowed at base, serrulate, glabrous; racemes axillary, half as long as the 
leaves, densely pubescent ; sepals striate, puberulous; petals once and a half as 
long as the sepals, narrowed to an obtuse point; filaments very short, free, 
bearing a gland at apex; anthers multisetose. 
