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mm. long, sordid-pilose on back and ciliate to upper level of anther 

 sacs, papillose above, the filaments about 0.4 mm. long, pilose down 

 middle inside, gradually widened into the 2 -celled anther, this narrowed 

 into an obtuse appendage about as long as the filament; those of series 

 II similar, 1.5 mm. long, the filaments 0.35 mm. long, pilose on both 

 sides, the 2-celled anther 0.65 mm. long, the triangular obtuse papil- 

 lose tip 0.5 mm. long; those of series III 2 mm. long, the filaments com- 

 paratively slender, i mm. long, pilose outside and down midline within, 

 bearing at base two globose sessile basally pilose glands slightly more than 

 half as long as the filament, the oval extrorsely 2-celled anther i mm. 

 long (including the 0.3 mm. long obtuse papillose appendage), papil- 

 lose-pilosulous on back; staminodes triangular, acuminate, 0.9 mm. 

 long, very shortly stipitate, pilose dorsally, glabrous inside; ovary sub- 

 globose, narrowed into and about equaling the stout style and obliquely 

 conical stigma; fruit ellipsoid-pyriform, glossy black, thin-skinned, 10 

 to 15 cm. long; seed very large, obovoid, with thick outer coat; embryo 

 at extreme base of cotyledons. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1011734, collected in 

 loamy soil of tropical forest at Finca Compromiso, Mazatenango, 

 Guatemala, at an altitude of about 365 meters, January 17, 191 7, by 

 Wilson Popenoe (no. 754). 



Hufelandia anay is easily distinguished from the two species of the 

 genus previously described from Mexico and Central America, H. 

 mexicana Mez and H. costaricensis Mez Pittier, by the fact that 

 its leaves are glaucous beneath. From H. pendula (Swartz) Nees, of 

 the West Indies, which agrees in the glaucescence of its leaves, H. anay 

 differs in .its larger oval leaves persistently pubescent beneath, its larger 

 sordid-pilosulous flowers, and its much larger fruit. 



A related species, collected on the Volcan de Poas in Costa Rica by 

 Mr. Henri Pittier some years ago, may also be described in this con- 

 nection. The native name of this tree is not known, nor is the nature 

 of its fruit. 



Hufelandia ovalis Blake, sp.^nov. 



Medium-sized tree; branchlets stoutish, subangulate, olive-brown, 

 cinereous-puberulous with appressed hairs, glabrate; leaves alternate, 

 the blades 5.5 to 8 cm. long, 3 to 4.7 cm. wide, oval, acutish or obtuse, 

 at base cuneate to rounded-cuneate, pinnate-veined with 6 to 7 pairs 

 of prominulous lateral veins, thick-pergamentaceous, above dull green 

 or slightly lucid, prominulous-reticulate, rather sparsely pilosulous 

 with loose whitish hairs, glabrescent at maturity, beneath glaucous, 

 finely prominulous-reticulate, pilosulous with loose, curved, whitish 

 hairs, along the veins more densely sordid-pilosulous; petioles stout, 

 flattish, sordid-pilosulous, 7 to 11 mm. long; peduncles axillary, loosely 

 sordid-pilosulous, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. long; panicles ovoid, dense, shorter 



