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'’YPE LOCALITY : Cayenne. Type collected by Martin. 
Not seen; description translated from the original. The plant described and 
figured by Oudemans” as Alsodeia flavescens, from material collected by Martin 
in French Guiana, is probably the same. The petals are said to be little longer 
than the sepals, but the stamens are figured as with filaments nearly as long as 
the anthers. In this respect his plant resembles Rinorea passoura, but that has 
petals more than twice as long as the sepals. 
20. Rinorea flavescens (Aubl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 42. 1891. 
Conohoria flavescens Aubl. Pl. Guian. 1: 289. pl. 95. 1775. 
Alsodea flavescens Spreng. Syst. Veg. 1: 806. 1825. 
Shrub; branchlets puberulous and _hispid-pilose, glabrate; leaves opposite ; 
petioles 3 to 7 mm. long, pubescent like the branchlets; blades obovate to oval, 
7 to 20 cm. long, 2.2 to 8 em. wide, short-acuminate, at base cuneate to rounded, 
obsoletely crenate-serrulate or subentire, papery, above puberulous along 
costa or glabrous, beneath sparsely hispid or strigose on costa or glabrous; 
racemes about 7 em. long, finely spreading-puberulous; pedicels 2 to 4 mm. 
long; sepals oval or ovate, 1.5 to 2.38 mm. long, rounded or obtuse, ciliolate, 
weakly several-nerved; petals oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, yellow, 4.2 
to 4.5 mm. long, obtusish, with recurved very sparsely hispidulous apex, 
otherwise glabrous; stamens 2.7 to 3 mm. long, the filaments 0.7 mm. long, 
equaling or exceeding the deltoid tridenticulate gland, this adnate for half its 
length or more, the anthers 1 mm. long, not appendaged, the connective scales 
23 mm. long, oblong-ovate, obtuse, entire or obscurely erose below, glabrous; 
ovary glabrous, sometimes with a few hairs, the placentae 1 or 2-ovulate; 
capsule 2 to 2.5 em. long, usually 2-seeded ; seeds glabrous. 
ILLUSTRATION: Aubl. Pl. Guian. pl. 95. 
TyPE LOCALITY: Near the River Sinémari, French Guiana, forty leagues from 
the coast. Type, collected by Aublet, in the British Museum. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
British GuUIANA: Without definite locality, Schomburgk 119 in part (N), 
336 in part (N). 
Frencu GUIANA: Near the River Sinémari, Aublet (sketch of type, N). 
BraziL: Without definite locality, Burchell 9727 (G, Y). 
Readily distinguished among the species with opposite leaves and simply 
racemose flowers by its glabrous ovary. As already noted by Eichler in the 
case of no. 336, both nos. 119 and 336 of Schomburgk are mixtures, the other 
species in each case being R. passoura. 
Aublet gives the native name as “ conohorié,” and Hichler, on the basis of a 
drawing from Para, gives the name “ jacamim-renepea ” for this species. 
I have followed Eichler in the interpretation of Aublet’s species. Aublet 
describes and figures the sepals and petals as acute or acuminate, which is 
not the case in any specimens I have examined. Eichler lists the species from 
Para, the three Guianas, and eastern Peru. Mr. Baker writes me that the 
type bears a few hairs on the ovary, an occasional feature already mentioned 
by Eichler in describing the species. I have found it perfectly glabrous in 
the material examined. 
21. Rinorea passoura (DC.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 1: 42. 1891, as R. passura. 
Passoura guianensig Aubl. Pl. Guian. 2: Suppl. 21, pl, 380. 1775. Not R. 
guianensis Aubl. 1775. 
” Arch, Néerl. 2: 194. pl. 4. 1867. 
