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Sarcogonnni tamnifoli 



Torr. Club, 



6: in. Sorata, 8000 ft., Feb., 1886 (no. 628), and Unduavi, 

 8000 ft, Oct., 1885 ( n o- 1426). 



Sarcogonum viilcanicum (Endl.) Rusby, Mem. Torr. Club, 

 4 : 252. Vic. La Paz, 10000 ft, Oct, 1885 (no. 630). 



Uvift 



Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 561 {Coc- 



Wedd. 



rid Mad 



J 



* 



e de Dios, Aug., 1886 (no. 1380). 

 Uvifera strobibalifera (Meissn.) (Coccoloba strobilulifera M 



Mart. Fl. Bras. 5 1 : 25). June, of Rivers Beni and Madre de 

 Dios, Aug., 1886 (no. 2624). 



Uvifera Meissneriana Britton, sp. nov. 



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Younger portions, inflorescence and lower leaf-surfaces pubes- 

 cent and slightly ferruginous : branchlets stout, strongly striate or 

 costate : petioles 5 mm. long, very stout and broad: blades 5-1.5 

 dm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, obovate, abruptly and acutely short- 

 pointed, rigid, pale-green, the coarsely reticulate slender venation 

 prominent on both sides : spikes sessile, 5-6 cm. long, the rachis 

 stout, coarsely angled, densely flowered : catkins 6-8 cm. long, 

 5 or 6 mm. thick, densely flowered, deep-brown : pedicels 1-2 mm. 

 long, stout : perianth 2 mm. long, the segments ovate or oval, 

 obtuse : filaments about 1 mm. long, flattened and much broad- 

 ened below, the anthers less than .5 mm. long : pistil about 1 mm. 

 *ong, the ovary conical-ovoid, the style stout with slender branches. 



Guanai, 2000 ft, May, 1886 (no. 1918). 



Mr. Bang's no. 1595, probably collected at the same place, is 

 the same, in fruit. The fruit is 5 mm. long, globular-ovoid, 

 obtuse, lightly angled, deep-brown. 



Trip/arts hispida Britton, Mem. Torr. Club, 6: in. Guanai, 



1 



M 



1424). 



J 



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Triplaris efistulifera sp. nov. 



Pistillate plant, in fruit, only seen : glabrous, except the fer- 

 ruginous tomentose inflorescence : branches, elongated; black- 

 ish, solid, the internodes about 2 cm. long : sheaths annular, about 

 1 cm. long : petioles .7-1 cm. long, very broad, blackish : blades 

 1-5 dm. long, 6 cm. broad, oval, blunt at the base, acuminate, 

 thickish, lightly shining above, pale underneath, where the midrib 



very 



ry 



