BLAKE—REVISION OF RINOREA, 509 
it is probably rather Rinorea martini (above, no. 19). Eichler records the 
typical form of R. passoura from Par&, the three Guianas, and Maynas, Peru. 
A sheet in the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden, belonging to 
a collection originally recorded and described by Triana and Planchon” as 
Alsodeia flavescens, shows a peculiar abnormality in the stamens. The fila- 
ments are 1 mm. long, about twice as long as the pubescent basal glands; the 
connective scales narrowly lanceolate, 3 mm. long, entire, sparsely strigose 
dorsally; the anthers, described by Triana and Planchon as about equaling 
the scale, are in this specimen almost entirely aborted; the ovary is densely 
hispid-pilose, with the placentae 2-ovulate. Triana and Planchon questicned 
whether this collection might be abnormal or might indicate polygamy or 
dicliny in the flowers of Alsodeia. As this is the only specimen of Rinorea out 
of several score I have examined which shows such stamens, it is clear that 
the peculiarity is a purely individual and abnormal one. 
22. Rinorea guatemalensis (S. Wats.) Bartlett, Proc. Amer. Acad, 43: 56. 
1907. 
Alsodeia guatemalensis S. Wats. Proc, Amer. Acad. 21: 458. 1886. 
Branchlets densely spreading-puberulous,: glabrate ; leaves opposite; petioles 
puberulous, 4 to 9 mm. long; blades oval or obovate-oval to elliptic-oblong, 
7 to 14.5 em. long, 2.5 to 6 cm. wide, short-pointed or acuminate with obtuse 
apex, at base cuneate, pergamentaceous, subentire, obscurely puberulous along 
costa and sometimes along veins above, sparsely strigose or hispidulous along 
costa and sometimes along veins beneath, loosely prominulous-reticulate ; 
racemes 3 to 6.5 cm. long, densely rufescent-puberulous with spreading hairs, 
the pedicels 2 to 4 mm. long; sepals ovate to deltoid-ovate, 1 to 1.5 mm. long, 
acute or acutish, rarely obtuse, not striate, ciliolate, usually puberulous along 
midline; petals lance-ovate, 5.5 mm. long, narrowed to an obtusish reflexed 
apex, ciliolate below and very sparsely so at tip, rarely with three or four hairs 
on back; stamens 4 to 4.5 mm. long, the filaments slender, 0.8 mm. long, about 
equaled by the sometimes puberulous gland, the anthers 1.6 mm. long, bearing 
1 or 2 cusps or unappendaged, the connective scales lance-ovate, 3.2 to 3.7 mm. 
long, narrowed to an obtuse apex, strongly erose or crisped below ; ovary densely 
hispid-pilose, the placentae j-ovulate; capsule 13 to 19 mm. long, spreading- 
puberulous, the placentae and young seeds glabrous ; mature seeds subglobose, 
6 mm. thick, fuscous-brown, rather sparsely puberulous. 
Type LocaLity: Banks of the Rio Chocén, Guatemala. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
Oaxaca: Teotalcingo to Choapan, altitude 1,800 meters, 1919, Reko 4082 
(N). Near Santo Domingo, altitude 270 meters, 1895, Nelson 2661 (N). 
Guatemala: Banks of the Rfo Chocén, Department of Izabal, March 4 
and 25, 1885, Watson 15 (type; G, photograph N). Finca Sepacuité, 
Department of Alta Verapaz, 1902, Cook & Griggs 744 (N). 
Honpuras: Tree on mountain creek among rocks, San Pedro Sula, Depart- 
ment of Santa Barbara, altitude 400 meters, April, 1890, Thieme 820 
(J. D. Smith, no, 5339; G, N, ¥). Puerto Sierra, 1908, Wilson 295 (Y), 
675 (Y). 
This is the only species with opposite leaves, simple racemes, and appendaged 
anther sacs known north of the Isthmus of Panama. Its closest relative is 
undoubtedly R. pilosula (no. 87), of Tabasco, which has entire connective 
scales and always unappendaged anthers. 
ann, Sci. Nat. IV. Bot. 17: 127, 1862. 
