Marca 27, 1915] Two Honprep Twenty Six New Sprcies—I 2637 
leaves are broadly rounded at their bases and have shorter 
petioles; peduncles of infrutescence also shorter. 
by Bridelia lauraefolia Elm. n. sp. 
Small tree; stem 2 dm thick, 8 m high; sapwood white, 
otherwise fumosus, light, odorless, tasteless; bark brown ex- 
cept the smoothish gray epidermis; main branches chiefly to- 
ward the top, freely rebranched; twigs green, quite numerous, 
slender, short or longer, the younger ones short cinnamon 
brown tomentose. Leaves copious, alternate, exceedingly di- 
verse in size, the older or lower ones usually larger, vary- 
ing from 5 cm to 2 dm long and from 2 to 10 em wide, 
oblong, occasionally obovately oblong or ovately elongated, 
apex bluntly acute or subacuminate, base broadly or obtusely 
rounded and frequently widely cuneate, entire, unequally 
- brown on the 2 sides when dry, dark sublucid green and 
glabrous, mueh paler green or subglaucous beneath and usual- 
ly with*a very fine dark fulvus tomentum; midrib pro- 
nounced beneath and plane above; lateral nerves of 9 to 13 
pinnate pairs, oblique, only their tips ascendingly curved, cross 
bars numerous and relatively minute; petiole 1 em long or 
shorter, sparsely hairy when old. Pistillate flowers greenish 
or the central organs yellowish, in dense clusters from all 
the axils of the leaves or their scars, apparently surround- 
ed by ciliate bract vestiges; calyx almost 5 mm long, the 
basal one third united and strongly constricted, otherwise 
nearly cup shaped, 5-segmented, subcinereous or grayish pu- 
bescent on the outside, leathery, the lobes subequal, 1.5 to 
2 mm wide below the middle, ovate though subacuminately 
pointed; ovary completely surrounded by a rim to which 
the calyx is united; the truncate rim bearing 5 incurved 
spathulate or obovate petals or appendages, 1 mm long, fine- 
ly cinereous on the dorsal side, somewhat unequal in. size 
and shape, alternating with staminodes or sterile stamens whose 
distal ends appear minutely notched; ovary glabrous, ellip- 
soid, 1.5 mm long; styles 2, likewise glabrous and nearly 
as long, erect though distinctly parted, bearing expanded — 
stigmas; pedicels of the staminate flowers 6 mm long, pu- 
berulent; sepals 5, more or less united at the base and per- 
