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long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, nerves 4 to 5 on each side of the midrib, ascending, distant, 

 not or only obscurely anastomosing, the reticulations obsolete: petioles 5 to 



s mm. long; stipules oblong, 2 to 3 nun. long, deciduous, apex rather strongly, 



Often caudate acuminate, the acumen blunt, the base acute or somewhat decur- 

 i-eiit acuminate, Flowers pale green, somewhat fragrant, fasciculate. 3 to (i in 

 each axil. 4 to ."> mm. long, the pedicels slender, glabrous, 2 to 3 mm. long. 

 Calyx sliort. broad, 5-toothed, glabrous, about 1 mm. long, 2 mm. in diameter. 

 Corolla about 4.5 mm. long, the tube short, broad, not contracted, glabrous out- 

 side, villous within, about 2 mm. long, the lobes 5, about equaling the tube, 

 reflexed, ovate or oblong-ovate, acute. Stamens 6; filaments villous, about 1 mm. 

 long; anthers 1.5 mm. long. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled; style 1.5 mm. long, 

 glabrous; Btigma capitate, entire, ridged. Fruit yellow when mature, obovoid, 

 or oblong-obovoid, glabrous, didynamous, fleshy, 1 to 1.3 em. long, about s mm. 

 in diameter, 2-seeded, the seeds narrowly oblong-ovoid, rugose, somewhat trique- 

 trous, 8 or mm. long. 



(3945 Merrill) March; 1905 (type); (349 Barnes) February. 1004; (2587, 

 3000 Meyer) February, .May. 1905; (7:51. 2560, 2751 Borden) May. 1904, Feb- 

 ruary, March, L905; (98, 298 Whitford) April, May, 1904. Abundant in forests 

 300 to 70(1 m. I'lcclron'ui rillnrii Elmer in herb., non K. Sch. 



5. P. sp. 



(1263 Whitford) May; (3036 Borden) May. In forests and thickets 80 to 

 130 m., material very imperfect. 



16. TIMONIUS Rumph. 



I. T. arborea Elmer n. sp. in herb. 



A small tree S to 12 m. high. Leaves opposite. 7 to 10 em. long, 2.5 to 6 cm. 

 wide, oblong-lanceolate to broadly oblanceolate or elliptical oblanceolate, the apex 

 acuminate, gradually narrowed below to the acute base, glabrous on both sur- 

 faces; nerves (i to 7 on each side of the midrib, ascending, prominent beneath, 

 the reticulations obscure, dense: petioles glabrous or very slightly pubescent, 

 0.5 to 1 cm. Ion-;-; stipules 4 mm. long, acuminate, pubescent. Female flowers 

 axillary, solitary, the pedicels 1.5 cm. long, pubescent. Calyx (i mm. long, pubes- 

 cent, subtended by two small bract coles, the limb with 5 or (i small teeth. Corolla 

 pubescent outside, 13 mm. long, the tube cylindrical, about nun. long, the 

 lobes to S, spreading or rellexed. about 4.5 mm. long, oblong. Stamens to 

 ,H. sessile, inserted on the corolla tube at about the middle, the anthers nearly 

 3 mm. long. Style equaling the corolla tube, glabrous, channeled, divided above 

 into 5 or linear branches. Fruit globose or ovoid, glabrous, about 1 cm. long, 

 cost ate. the seeds many, subterete. more or less curved, about 7 mm. long. 



(1248 Whitford) May, 1906; (1364 Borden) -Inly. 1004: (1421 Muni's col- 

 lector.) .Inly, 1004. In forests 200 to 600 m. A species apparently related to 

 Timonius jamboseUa Thwaites, differing, however, in many characters. 



17. PAVETTA Linn. 



I. P. barnesii Elmer n. sp. in herb. 



A spreading shrub about 5 m. high. Leaves chiefly clustered at the ends of 

 tin- branchlets, membranous, glabrous, turning black in drying, oblanceolate to 

 oblong obovate. opposite, to 14 cm. long. 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, the apex usually 

 slender acuminate, the base attenuate; nerves 7 to !) on each side of the midrib, 

 curved-ascending, rather prominent on both surfaces, the reticulations lax; 

 petioles about 2 cm. long; stipules glabrous; subcoriaceous. acute. 5 nun. long, 

 nearly as broad at the base. Inflorescence a terminal cymose panicle not exceed- 

 ing the leaves, the lower blanches subtended by broad bracts, glabrous or very 



