March 27, 1915] Two Hundred Twenty Six New Spkciks— II 2771 



curing bluish green beneath, dull brown on the upper surface 

 and as usual in all Conocephalus with circular pale white blotch- 

 es; midrib pronounced beneath and similarly green, plane 

 along the upper side; lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs, the basal pair 

 arising from near the base, ascending, strict, their tips strong- 

 ly curved upward and obscurely united, also prominent beneath 

 and of the same color, cross bars faint; petiole ranging from 

 5 to 20 cm long or longer or shorter, deep brown, glabrous, 

 subterete, smooth though more or less striate; bud or interaxil- 

 lary bract about 2 cm long, also glabrous, rigid, green hut the 

 inwardly folded margins brown in the natural state, ascending, 

 gradually tapering and curved about the twig, with a small 

 opening at the apex and at the base in the ventral axils, 

 always inhabited by small black ants. Inflorescence erect, 

 axillary, fragrant, 3 to 4 cm long; stalk yellowish white for 

 the upper one half, the peduncle or lower portion greenish, 

 glabrous, 3 cm long, forked and with a persistent whorl of 

 bracts at the middle, at the base provided by a series of easily 

 falling 2 cm long elongated greenish bracts; each fork or pedicel 

 proper bearing a 1.5 cm thick, conglomerate head of male flow- 

 ers; bracts in pairs at the point of forking and at the articu- 

 lated and enlarged middle portion of the pedicels, the lower 

 pairs subpersistent, 1 cm long, broadly ovate, obtuse, gla- 

 brate, leathery, deeply spoon shaped, pale green; staminate 

 flowers densely clustered in globose individual heads 5 mm 

 in diameter; individual flowers normally with 3 stamens, oc- 

 casionally with only 2; perianth 1.5 mm long, tapering from 

 the base toward the subtruncate apex, at the base occasional- 

 ly ciliate and provided with minute reddish glands, brown 

 when dry, very membranous, glabrous, dividing from the 

 apex toward the base into 3 obovately oblong segments whose 

 apical portions is provided with few large punctate appear- 

 ing glands; filament thickened at the apex or distal end, 

 exceeding the perianth, flat, midrib brown and with hyaline 

 sides, opposite each perianth segment; anther sfter anthesis 

 extrorse 0.5 to 0.66 mm long, subdorsifixed, ovately ellip- 

 tic or oval, broadly lobulate at the base, notched or emar- 

 ginate at the apex, persistent and empty cells curvingly 

 twisted, laterally dehiscent; pistil apparently present, sterile. 

 Type specimen number 13653, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 



