AuGCST 18, 1913] FoiR Scork of New rr.ANTS 1797 



specific name. .lagging from a more careful analysis of its 

 flowers, it beloDgs to Adinodaphnc rather than to Lilsae. 



Beilschmiedia nis:rifolia Elm. n. sp. 



Small erect tree; stem 12 cm. thick, terete, its main 

 branches from the middle; wood quite hard, burly, distinct- 

 ly bitter, odorless, ochraceus except the darker yellow heart- 

 wood; bark grayish brown, more or les.s checked and scall- 

 ing in thin plates, latericius except the epidermis; branchlets 

 numerous, lax, crooked, the green apical portion suberect, 

 occiisional in subwliorls, grayii*h white, the glabrous young 

 tips turning deep black while drying, striate or ridged. Leaves 

 ascending, lucid and pleasing green above, glaucous beneath, 

 usually somewhat curved upon the upper side, thinly coria- 

 ceous and very smooth, turning blnck while drying though 

 the glaucous nether side can still be detected, glabrous, 

 greatly varying in size, alternatingly crowded upon the green 

 portion of the twigs, entire, rounded at apex, obtuse or 

 cuneate at base, the larger lamina 1 dm. long by 4 cm. 

 wide above the middle, the smaller ones 5 cm. long and 

 obovate, the others obovately oblong; midrib dark black, 

 shining and glabrous, with 6 to 9 lateral nerves from the 

 upper surface, reticulations very fine and likewise more evident 

 from the upper side; petiole 1 to 1.5 cm. long, black and 

 glabrous, grooved along the upper side, leaving scars after 

 falling. Inflorescence from the lowermost leaf axils or from 

 the axils of scars, ascending, pale green, black when dry, 

 paniculately branched toward the apex, the slender peduncle 

 2 to 5 cm. long; main branches 1.5 cm. long, rebranched, 

 the strict and divaricate pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long, all glab- 

 rous and turning black while drying, subtended by minute 

 bracteoles which soon fall off; buds subglobose, the ealyx 

 represented by 3 very small apiculations; corolla alternating 

 with the calyx vestiges, slightly imbricate, concavo-convex, 

 also united at the base, 2 mm. across either way, broadly 

 rounded at apex, 5-veined, puberulent especially along the 

 edge, appearing finely punctate from the sides; stamens about 

 9; the outer 3 inserted upon and opposite the segments, 

 fulvus hairy, the short filaments compressed and similar in 



