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gone 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad at the summit, campanulate-tur- 

 binate, the margin sinuately 5-lobed and plicate : stamens 10, 

 exserted, the filaments thickened, united at the base : the anthers 

 .5 mm. long and broad : pistillat 



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Madre de Dios, Aug., 1886 (no. 



2502). No, 2501, from the same place, is immature. Dr. Brit- 

 ton regards it as the same, but this cannot be definitely stated 

 from the material at hand. 



Neea longipedunculata Britton, sp. nov. 



Younger portions of the stem and lower leaf-surfaces pubescent: 

 branchlets stoutish, striate : petioles 2-5 mm. long, stout and 

 broad : blades .5-1.5 dm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad, obovate, mostly 

 blunt or rounded at the base, abruptly short-acuminate and ob- 

 tusish at the apex, entire, the venation very slender, inconspicuous 

 both sides, the secondaries very irregular, communicating near the 

 margin : flowers dioecious : peduncles of the pistillate flowers 

 about .5-1.5 dm. long, sub-filiform : panicles 2-6 cm. broad, 

 loosely flowered, triangular-subulate bracted, the bracts about 1 

 mm. long : flowers blackish as dried, sub-sessile, oblong with con- 

 tracted mouth, 1 cm. long, 3 mm. broad, the lobes 2 mm. long, 

 lightly recurved. 



Reis, 1500 feet, June, 1886 (no. 2709). 



Neea macrophylla Britton, sp. nov. 



Glabrous, drying blackish : branchlets stout, terete or angular 

 at the summit : petioles 1 or 2 cm. long, very stout, sharply mar- 

 gined : blades 1.5-2 dm. long, .75-1 dm. broad, oval, rather 

 abruptly narrowed into the petiole, short-acuminate and very 

 acute, entire, membranous, the midrib and 12-16 pairs of slender 

 secondaries lightly prominent above, strongly so underneath, the 

 latter interarching at some distance from the margin, connected by 

 the rather few, coarse tertiaries : cyme compound, shortly and 

 stoutly peduncled, 1 dm. broad, the branches minutely ferruginous, 

 thick and flattened after pressure : flowers sub-sessile, rather 

 densely grouped: bracts lance-linear, slenderly acuminate, 1-2 mm. 

 long : flowers (only the staminate seen) scarcely 1 cm. long, 3-4 

 mm. broad as pressed, oblong, contracted toward the summit of 

 the tube, the 5 lobes a little more than 1 mm. long and rather 

 broader, ovate, obtuse, thickened, papillose : stamens 8, the long- 

 est less than half the length of the corolla, the filaments thickened 

 but weak, the anthers nearly 1 mm. long, almost as broad, light 

 yellow, with a large black connective : pistil none. 



