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potiok's 2 to 2.5 cm. long, slender, glabrous or nearly so. liaceiiies 
axillary or from axils of fallen leaves, few-flowered, l(t em. long or less. 
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;labrous or slightly pubescent. Flowers white, the pedicels 1 em. long, 
densely appresscnl sericeous. Sepals 5, lanceolate, aeuminate, 8 to nim. 
long, 2.5 mm. wide, appressed silvery pubescent outside. Petals oblong, 
equaling the sepals, \ery densely silvery appressed, sericeous throughout, 
the apex cleft into 5 to 7 linear Innniae 2 mm. long. Stamens 20; 
iihiments 2.5 mm. long; anthers linesir 3 mm. long, one cell with a 
short mucro less than 0.5 mm. long. Ovary ovoid, densely vserieeous, 
;3-celled; style 5 mm. long. Fruit elliptical or ol)long-ovoid 1 to 1.3 
cm. long, dark bhie when mature, 1-cellcd, ]-seeded, the pericarp slightly 
fleshy. 
Tn forests at 900 in. alt. {No. 5582) type, also (Xo. .5fil6) from the saiiu' alti- 
tude and at 1,000 m. alt. (No. 4427 Merritt), June, lOOli. 
Elaeocarpus sp. 
In forests at 1,300 and 1,000 m. alt. (No8. 43S7, 4409 Merritt) June, 1900. The 
specimens are with fruit only and a^n^nrcntly rei)n'sent an undesorihcd species. 
Elaeocarpus sp. 
In forests at 700 m. alt. (No. 0148). Rix^eimen witli fruit only, but quite 
distinct from any of the genera at present represented in our herbarium. 
TILIACEJC. 
HALCONIA Merrill, n. gen. 
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Brac'teolae G. Sepala 4, crassa, valvata. Petala 5. Stamina co, libera; 
anthorae ovatae, versatiles. Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis cx)-ovnlatis; 
stylus nullus. Capsula 2-locularis^ dissepimento contrarie compressa, 
coriacea, apice apiculata, loculicide 2-valvis; semina ignota. Arljor. 
Folia subintegra penninervia et basi trinervia. Cymae axillares. 
Halconia involucrata Merrill'n. sp. 
A tree about 8 m. high, the branches terete, brownish gray, glaljrous, 
the younger parts stellate-lepidote pubescent. Leaves oblong, subcoria- 
ceous, 7 to 10 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, slightly stellate pubescent 
above, honeath pale and densely minutely lepidote and with scattered 
stellate hairs, the margins subentire or slightly ercnate, the apex acute 
or rounded, the base ronnded or sligiitly cordate, strongly a-nerved, the 
lateral nerves very prominent heneiith, ascending, including the basal 
ones 4 to 5 on each side of,the midrib; petioles 1 to 2.5 cm. long. Cymes 
axillary 14 cm. long or less, few-flowered, the flowers in groups of 
threes at the ends of the nltimate hranchlets, each group subtended by 
6, oblong, stellate-lepidote bractcK)les. Sepals 4, free, elliptical-oljlong, 
ultimately nearly 1 cm. long, densely lepidote-stellate. Petals 4, oblong. 
