Marca 27, 1915] Two Hunprep Twenty Six New Srrecies—1 2641 
on the outside, dingy in the central portion, quite hard 
and closely grained, odorless and tasteless; bark thin, epi- 
dermis greenish to brown, melleus otherwise; branchlets slender, 
widely spreading, bendable, even the young portion of the 
twigs terete and glabrous. Leaves alternate along the ulti- 
mate branches, horizontal or descending, flat, the obtuse to 
acute apex recurved, base of the larger blades broadly ob- 
tuse or obtusely rounded, glabrous, drying green on both 
sides, the smaller ones elongated, the larger ones subelliptic, 
occasionally a trifle inequilateral at the base, the larger 
ones 2 dm long by 8 cm wide across the middle, the 
smaller ones less than one half as large, the entire margins 
subinvolute in the dry state; petiole 5 mm long at least, 
glabrous, greenish brown when dry, flattened along the up- 
per side; midrib plane above, conspicuous beneath, green 
to straw brown when dry; lateral nerves 5 to 8, ascending- 
ly curved especially toward their tips, cross bars and sec- 
ondary nerves few, reticulations fine and obscure; stipule 
not. observed. Flowers in small clusters from opposite the 
alternating leaves, green in the bud state, melleus when in 
flower, suberect; pedicel 3 to 4 mm long, 1 mm thick, 
slightly thickened toward the distal end, glabrous; buds 
subglobose, 2 mm in diameter; perianth composed of 5 
imbricated segments, 4 mm long, nearly as wide across the 
‘middle or below it, united toward the base, glabrous, spoon 
shaped, broadly ovate to elliptic, marginal as well as the 
apical region transparent, the inner ones a trifle smaller, 
edges frequently appearing minutely ciliate; stamens numerous, 
erect, all inserted upon a callous rim or disk; filaments 
glabrous, hyaline, filiform, 2.5 mm long, nearly equal; 
anthers yellowish, 1 mm long, ovate to oblong, notched at 
the base, apex obtuse, nearly basifixed. Fruits also erect, 
the young ones green and subtended by a yellowish green 
perianth, 2 cm thick, triangularly lobed, the rounded lobes 
costate, curing reddish brown, bearing the sessile 3-segment- 
ed and bilobed stigma, truncately rounded at the base and 
with a very short constriction, ruber red when mature in 
"the fresh state; pedicel curved, stout, about 5 to 6 mm 
- long; seeds covered with a white hilum. - 
| Type specimen - noe 13413 in flower and 14038 in 
