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dehiscing by slits for about half their length, 4 mm. long; style barely ex- 

 serted; "berry round, dark purple, juicy, about 12 mm. thick." 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1059985, collected among 

 brush on hillsides near El Angel, Province El Carchi, Ecuador, altitude 

 3355 meters, June 5, 1921, by Wilson Popenoe (no. 1340). 



Described by the collector as abundant in the vicinity of El Angel at 

 elevations from 3050 to 3660 meters. It bears the Quichua names "cha- 

 qui-lulu" (signifying the ball of a baby's foot, given it from the appearance 

 of the fruit) and "haulic6n. " The latter name is applied to several related 

 species, while the former is distinctive of this plant. It is not cultivated. 



Macleania laurina is allied to M. loeserneriana Horold, from Mt. Pichin- 

 cha, but in that species the axis of the raceme is 5 cm. long, the bractlets 

 of the pedicels are borne near the middle, the corolla is apparently smaller, 

 and the anthers with their tubules are 1.3 cm. long. 



Macleania popenoei Blake, sp. nov. 



Shrub 3 m. high, sometimes half-climbing; branches stout, olive-green, 

 glabrous, subangulate, very leafy; petioles stout, fleshy like the base of the 

 costa, glabrous, 7 to 10 mm. long; leaf blades oblong-elliptic to ovate, 7 to 

 10.5 cm. long, 3 to 4.8 cm. wide, acute to obtusish, at base cuneate to round- 

 ed, entire, thick-coriaceous slightly revolute, sparsely impressed-punctate 

 and glabrous on both sides, feather-veined, the stronger lateral veins 2 or 

 3 pairs, impressed above, prominent beneath, the secondaries rather obscure 

 on both sides; flower buds 7 mm. long, densely covered with imbricated 

 ovate bracts with spreading-recurved acuminate ciliolate tips; flowers in 

 axillary fascicles of about 6 to 10; pedicels deflexed, glabrous, about 8 mm. 

 long, bearing 2 small ciliolate bractlets at or below the middle and a circle 

 of small glands at apex, where articulate with the calyx ; calyx campanulate, 

 sub terete, glabrous, 5 mm. long, the limb 5 mm. wide, the 5 acutish teeth 

 lanceolate to deltoid, 0.5 to 1 mm. long; corolla "reddish," ovoid-urceolate 

 or tubular-urceolate, 12 to 13 mm. long, fleshy, everywhere glabrous, the 

 5 teeth ovate, acutish, erectish, 1.5 mm. long; stamens 10, equal, the broad 

 filaments free or connate, about 2.8 mm. long, densely ciliate above, the 

 densely muriculate anther sacs 5 to 5.5 mm. long, the two coherent longi- 

 tudinally dehiscent tubules 3 mm. long; style exserted about 5 mm. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1059984, collected in cool 

 moist scrub in the Cordillera de Zamora, east of Loja, Ecuador, altitude 

 2440-2745 meters, April 8, 1921, by Wilson Popenoe (no. 1330). 



This species is said to be abundant, and is known as " joyapa, " a generic 

 name applied to various species. It produces soft, sweet, juicy fruits about 

 half an inch in diameter, but is not cultivated. It appears to be as near M. 

 pilgeriana Horold as any other species, but is distinguished from that plant 

 by its broader leaves with the nerves impressed above, its somewhat 

 shorter corolla, the ciliation of its filaments, and the different proportions 

 of the anther sacs and the tubules. 



Citharexylum subflavescens Blake, sp. nov. 

 Tree 8 m. high; branchlets elliptic in cross-section, flattened near the 

 nodes, white-pithy, densely flavescent-tomentulose with branched hairs, 



