DECEMBER 14, 1908] THREE Scores or New PLANTS 475 
est peak on its eastern. side. Only two or three plants were 
seen in this almost inaccessible place. A very rigid species with 
glands on the under side of the leaves, and fragrant flowers. 
ROSACEAE. 
PYGEUM Gaertn. 
Pygeum fragrans Elm. n. sp. 
Tall tree, 30 m. high, with a straight bole 3 to 6 dm. in 
diameter; wood quite hard, the bark on the rigid branches 
smooth and dark brown and covered with lighter brown len- 
ticels. Leaves broadly lanceolate, the average ones 14 cm. 
long and 4 em. wide across the middle, the apical portion 
slenderly tapering toward an acuminate point, base less grad- 
ually tapering, lucid green above, paler beneath, entire, sub- 
coriaceous, sparsely strigose on the nerves beneath; petiole 
glabrous, 1 cm. long, ascending, dark brown; nerves ascen- 
dingly curved, 5 to 7 on each side, grabrous in age, dark 
brown, quite evident beneath, anastomosing at the apex, the 
reticulations numerous but faint. Inflorescence strict, ascend- 
ing, racemose, 8 to 5 ecm. long, mostly solitary from the 
axils of fallen leaves; rachis thickened toward the base, short 
brown pubescent; pedicels scattered along the entire rachis, 
ascending, strict, subverticellate at the apex of the rachis, 
more densely pubescent, 5 mm. long; calyx similarly pubes- 
cent, campanulate, the broad 2 mm. deep tube easily 
separating from the basal persistent portion, its truncate © 
margin bearing from 5 to 10 deciduous segments; the - 
largest of them are 2 mm. long, spatulate in shape, more E 
or less pubescent, divaricately spreading, about 5 of which - 
are petaloid; stamens 20 to 80 in more than one series; _ 
filaments inserted at the orifice of the calyx tube, glabrous, 
unequal in length, the longer 7 mm., much interlaced; an- 
thers elliptic, 0.75 mm. long, 0.5 mm, wide, sublaterally - 
attached at the dorsal side; ovary glabrous, one half. digi : 
ded in the persistent calyx base; style straight, 6 mm. in | 
lenght, glabrous, subpersistent; fruits hard, dry, black, put a 
globose and only slightly vom petia, etapa ; 14 mm, abe » 
s Mile; midt, pin EE vica x MN STE NE 
