150 URTICACE. 
14. SOROCEA. 
Sorocea, A. St.-Hil. in Mém. Mus. Par. vii. p: 478; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 378. 
An exclusively Tropical-American genus comprising about twelve shrubby and 
arboreous species, ranging from Mexico to Brazil. 
1. Sorocea affinis, Hemsley, n. sp. (Tab. LX XIX.) 
Aff. 8. muriculate, foliis angustioribus longioribus, floribus masculis glabris breviter pedicellatis, 
amentis sessilibus, floribus femineis longiuscule pedicellatis, perianthio puberulo, fructu levi. 
Arbor 15—20-pedalis, ramulis glabris, gracilibus, cortice griseo, lenticellato. Folia breviter petiolata, 
subcoriacea, oblonga, 33-7 poll. longa, caudato-acuminata, utrinque glabra, subtus pallidiora, 
venis primariis conspicuis, prope marginem arcuatim anastomosantibus ; petiolus 14-8 lineas 
longus. Flores masculi brevissime pedicellati, glabri; amenta sessilia, gracilia, solitaria vel 
24-aggregata, 1-3 poll. longa; perianthii segmenta rotundata. Flores feminei pedicellati, 
puberuli; perianthium apice pulvinatum. Fructus spheroideus, puberulus, haud muricatus. 
Panama, near Mamei, Lion Hill, and Paraiso railway-station (8. Hayes, 8, 682, 684). 
Hb. Kew. 
EXPLANATION OF TAB. LXXIX. 
Fig. 1, a bud of a male flower of Trophis mexicana, showing the valvate zxstivation ; 2, a flower of 
the same just opened, showing the incurved stamens ; 3, the same, further advanced ; 4, a female 
flower of Sorocea affinis ; 5, young fruit of the same: all enlarged. 
For enlarged male flowers of Sorocea affinis, see Tab. LX XVIII. (explanation, p. 142), the male 
flowers of the two plants having been substituted for each other. 
2. Sorocea pubivena, Hemsley, n. sp. 
Fohis amplis oblongo-ellipticis integris subtus precipue in venis puberulis, floribus femineis 
pedicellatis, fructibus puberulis. __ 
Arbor ?, ramis graciliusculis, glabris. Folia breviter petiolata, subcoriacea, oblongo-elliptica, in 
spec. unico usque ad 10 poll. longa, basi cuneata, apice caudato-acuminata, supra glabra, costa 
venisque primariis depressis, subtus preecipue in costa venisque elevatis puberula; petiolus 6-8 
lineas longus. Flores feminei racemosi, pedicellis 2-3 lineis longis haud incrassatis. Fructus 
oblongus, ad 4 lineas longus, puberulus, haud muricatus. 
GuaTEMALA (Mriedrichsthal). Hb. Kew. 
Tribe VI. CONOCEPHALEA. 
Conocephalee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 347. 
This tribe comprises six genera and about ninety shrubby and herbaceous species, 
upwards of seventy of which are Tropical-American. One monotypic. genus, and 
another, of which four species are known, are restricted to Tropical Africa, and a third, 
of about ten species, is Asiatic. 
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15. CECROPIA. 
Cecropia, Linn. Gen.. Plant. n. 1099; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 378. 
Trees inhabiting Tropical America from Mexico to Brazil. Nearly forty species have 
been described, many of them, however, from very imperfect material. 
