STAND ley: notes ON ORTHOPTERYGIUM HUAUCUI 



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T. Townsend, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, who has 

 spent several years in entomological work in Peru and Ecuador, 

 presented to the National Museum a small collection of plants 

 from western Peru. Among the specimens are staminate flowers 

 and nearly mature fruit of Orthopterygium huaucui. The fruit 

 agrees perfectly with that of the type collection of the species. 



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Fig. 1. Orthopterygium. huaucui in Chosica Canyon. The largest individual 

 seen, a pistillate tree with fruits pendent from the branches. 



Dr. Gray states that his own material consisted of ''two leafless 

 branches .... with nothing besides a terminal fascicle 

 of immature, pendent, samaroid fruits." One of these branches 

 is in the National Herbarium. 



Dr. Townsend's specimens come from the general region of the 

 two localities cited above. They were collected June 6 or 7, 



