532 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: Guaremales, altitude 10 to 100 meters. 1920, Pittier 9099. 
Vicinity of Periji, Zulia, 1917, Tejera 1. 
This species is related to Alseis floribunda Schott, but has the corolla gla- 
brous outside, the style glabrous, and the branchlets not pubescent. 
As already noted by K. Schumann,‘ the aestivation in Alseis is open, not val- 
vate as described by Bentham and Hooker, and the flowers are all her- 
maphrodite and similar, not dimorphous and monoecious as described by Ben- 
tham and Hooker and by Hemsley. 
Chomelia polyantha Blake, sp. nov, 
Small tree, 5 to 6 meters high; stem sparsely strigillose, glabrate, the branch- 
lets not spinescent; stipules united into a triangular acute strigose tooth, 2.5 
mm. long; petioles 8 mm. long, sparsely strigose, ciliate; blades oval or oblong- 
obovate, 3 to 7 cm. long, 1.8 to 3 em. wide, short-pointed or the smaller ones 
retuse, at base cuneate to rounded, coriaceous, above deep green, glabrous, 
beneath somewhat paler green, barbate in the axils of the veins, the veins 4 
pairs, prominulous beneath, the secondaries somewhat impressed beneath; 
peduncles axillary, glabrous, 1.5 to 2 em. long, at apex bearing about 10 sessile 
ebracteate flowers in a dense cluster: hypanthium 1.4 mm. long, sparsely strigil- 
lose; free portion of calyx 2 to 2.5 mm. long, sparsely strigillose, the tube 1.8 
mm. long, the 4 suborbicular or oblong teeth 0.7 mm. long, slightly unequal, at 
apex obtuse or emarginate, bearing a gland on each side at base; corolla white, 
2 cm. long, densely strigillose when young, the very slenderly funnelform 
tube and throat 1.5 cm. long, the 4 lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, 4.5 mm. long; 
Stamens attached just below apex of throat, barely exserted, the anthers 2 mm. 
long; style strongly included, glabrous, the stigmatic lobes 1.2 mm. long. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,065,084, collected in monsoon 
forest at Guaremales, along road from Puerto Cabello to San Felipe, Carabobo, 
Venezuela, altitude 10 to 100 meters, May 20 to June 10, 1920, by H. Pittier 
(no. 8856). 
This species differs from its relative, Chomelia barbinervis Moric. (C, 
anisomeris Muell. Arg.), in having many-flowered cymes and a calyx longer 
than the ovary and with subequal teeth. The flowers are described as sweet- 
scented. 
Evea lucentifolia Blake, sp. nov, PLaTE 42. 
Shrub 1 to 2 meters high; branches slender, green, glabrous; stipules united, 
coriaceous-herbaceous, truncate, 2 mm. high, sparsely strigose at apex, bearing 
on each side from near the base a stiff erect spine 5 to 8 mm. long; petioles 
1 mm. long or less; blades ovate or oval-ovate, 6.5 to 10 cm. long, 3.3 to 6 em. 
wide, acuminate, the apex acute, at base broadly rounded, pergamentaceous, 
above deep green, shining, beneath much lighter green, glabrous on both sides, 
the veins about 7 pairs, prominulous beneath, the secondaries loosely prominul- 
ous-reticulate; peduncles solitary, terminal, glabrous, monocephalous, 2.5 cm. 
long; inflorescence capitate, about 2 cm, long and thick; outer bracts 5, ovate, 
1.7 to 2.1 em, long, 6 to 10 mm, wide, acute or acuminate, cuspidulate, rounded 
at base, glabrous outside, white, turning purple, somewhat hispidulous inside 
toward base; larger inner bracts about 8, lance-elliptic, acuminate, slightly 
shorter than the outer; flowers about 12, adnate at base to the inner bracts; 
free portion of calyx 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, half longer than the glabrous 
hypanthium, the tube cup-shaped, 1.2 mm. long, the 5 somewhat unequal teeth 
