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the same valley near the ruins of Menche Tinamit and Yax- 

 chilan, has reference to the former abundance of the anay in the 

 same region. 



The anay, both in the vicinity of Mazatenango and in the 

 Usumacinta Valley, grows in moist regions at an elevation of 

 only 300 to 365 meters. For this reason Mr. Popenoe believes 

 that it will not succeed in California, but that it may do well in 

 southern Florida. Young trees grown from seeds collected by 

 Mr. Popenoe are now cultivated in the Plant Introduction Gar- 

 den at Miami, under the Seed and Plant Introduction number 

 43432, and their future will be watched with much interest. In 

 its native haunts the species was reported by natives to flower 

 in May, but from the specimens collected by Mr. Popenoe it is 

 clear that the flowering season is December and January. The 

 fruit ripens in August and September. 



As this species of Hujelandia is known throughout its range as 

 anay (pronounced a-ni,^ and as it is intended to bear the same 

 name on its introduction into culture in the United States, it 

 may be called 



Hufelandia anay Blake, sp. nov. 



Large tree, up to about 22 meters high, with thick, reddish brown 

 bark; branchlets stout, angulate, densely griseous or rufescent-puber- 

 ulous with sordid incurved hairs, at length glabrate; leaves alternate, 

 rather crowded toward the ends of the branches, the blades 13 to 20 

 cm. long, 7.5 to 10 cm. wide, oval, abruptly short-pointed (acumen 

 about I cm. long, obtuse), rounded to cuneate at base, chartaceous, 

 pinnate-veined with 10 to 14 pairs of lateral veins diverging at an 

 angle of about 70°, above green, sordid-puberulous along costa and 

 lateral veins, essentially glabrous on the slightly prominulous-reticu- 

 late surface, beneath glaucous, rather sparsely puberulous on the sur- 

 face with whitish hairs, more densely so on veins with sordid loose 

 hairs, with rather prominent secondary veins and obscure tertiaries; 

 petioles stout, sulcate, sordid-puberulous especially above, 2.5 to 3.5 

 cm. long; panicles axillary, sordid-puberulous, sparsely branched (at 

 least in fruit) and rather slender, 9 to 15 cm. long (including the 4 

 to 7 cm. long peduncle) ; pedicels in young fruit somewhat clavate, 

 about 3 mm. long; perianth sordid-pilosulous on both sides, 2.5 mm. 

 long, the segments subequal, oval, rounded at apex, 1.5 mm. wide; 

 perianth tube extremely short; stamens of series I oblong-elliptic, 1.9 



^ The system of diacritical marks here used is that of Webster's Dictionary. 



