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long, glabrate; blades opposite, obovate-oblong or elliptic-obovate, the 

 lower about 6 cm. long, the upper 9 to 13 cm. long, 3.5 to 5 cm. wide, ob- 

 scurely and obtusely short-pointed, at base cuneate and unequal, perga- 

 mentaceous, above glabrous, beneath barbate in the axils, along costa 

 sparsely strigillose or glabrous, the lateral veins about 8 pairs, prominent 

 beneath, the secondaries prominulous-reticulate on both sides; panicles 

 axillary, 7.5 to 14.5 cm. long, strigillose, glabrescent, the branches remote, 

 the lowest spreading, up to 2.5 cm. long, the upper very short, the cymules 

 about 3-flowered; pedicels 1.5 mm. long; calyx saucer-shaped, 1 mm. long, 

 4-denticulate, strigillose; petals 4, strigillose above, 4 mm. long; stamens 

 8, the tube 3 mm. long, sparsely strigillose near middle, crenate with emarg- 

 inate lobes, the anthers oblong, 1 mm. long, exserted for half their length; 

 pistil glabrous, the ovary 4-celled, the cells 1-ovulate, the style about 0.8 

 mm. long, shorter than ovary. 



Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, No. 573,203, collected at Pinotepa, 

 Oaxaca, May, 1845, by H. Galeotti (No. 7247 D). 



Related to Guarea polyantha Blake, which has much longer and compara- 

 tively narrower lance-elliptic acuminate leaflets. 



Guarea polyantha Blake, sp. nov. 

 Large compact shrub; branchlets strigillose, glabrescent; leaves 4- to 10- 

 foliolate; uppermost leaves with about 5 oblong-elliptic obtuse alternate 

 leaflets about 8.5 cm. long; main leaves 10-foliolate, the petioles (3 cm. 

 long) and rachis (23 cm. long) essentially glabrous; petiolules 3 to 6 mm. 

 long; lowest pair of leaflets oblong-elliptic, 7 cm. long, the others elliptic or 

 lance-elliptic, 12.5 to 19 cm. long, 4 to 5.5 cm. wide, obtusely acuminate, at 

 base unequally cuneate, pergamentaceous, equally green on both sides, 

 glabrous on both sides except for ferruginous tufts in the axils beneath, the 

 lateral veins about 8 pairs, prominent beneath, the secondaries prominulous- 

 reticulate on both sides; panicles axillary, 10 to 24 cm. long, strigillose, 

 glabrescent, pyramidate, branched from near the base, the branches 9 cm. 

 long or less, spreading or ascending, their branchlets frequently subverti- 

 cillate, the cymules mostly 3-flowered; pedicels clavellate, 2 to 4 mm. long; 

 calyx saucer-shaped. 0.8 mm. long, strigillose and ciliolate, the 4 short teeth 

 acutish; petals 4, white, oblong, 3.8 mm. long, obtuse, sparsely strigillose 

 toward apex; stamens 8, the tube 3 mm. long, glabrous, shallowly crenate 

 with emarginate lobes, the anthers oblong, 0.7 mm. long, exserted for half 

 their length; pistil glabrous, 3.2 mm. long, the stout gynophore 0.8 mm. 

 long, the ovary 1.2 mm. long, 4-celled, the cells 1-ovulate, the style 1 mm. 

 long, the stigma 0.8 mm. wide. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, No. 266,358, collected in thick, 

 shady woods on low ground in Acapulco or vicinity, Guerrero, March 1-10, 

 1895, by E. Palmer (No. 578). 



According to the collector the flowers have a strong odor of honey, and 

 the vernacular name is "cedrillo." 



