8 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
nerve. Stamens 3, very small, the filaments dilated and slightly 
_ connate at the base, the anther, cells contiguous. Staminodia 
none. Pistil not visible. 
“Twining to 15 feet. Rare on forest hillside near Madinger 
Vieja, 1000 feet, November 11.” (Herbert Smith, Colombia, 
No. 2294.) 
Renealmia orinocensis. 
Fruiting Plant.—Glabrous. Stems short, invested by the 
cylindrical, reddish, strongly many-ribbed leaf-sheaths. Leaves 
to 5 dm. long, 5 cm. wide at the broadest part, which is about 
two-thirds of the way from base to summit, finely many-nerved. 
Fruiting inflorescence narrowly paniculate, to 15 dm. long, in- 
. long, narr 
panulate. Seeds abou 4 mm. long and nearly as broad, 
irregularly tetrahedral, light-brown, somewhat shining, en- 
closed closely in a scarious white aril. 
Near Santa Catalina, Lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May, 1896, 
(Rusby and Squires, No. 406.) Species near R. occidentalis. 
Myrica costata. : 
sely and harshly short-hairy, the hairs from minute 
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whitish papillae on the leaf-surfaces. Branchlets stout, densely 
leafy. Petioles 6 to 9m 
kin: . 
vua » the flowers sessile, the bracts ovate, 
ed s ves s ea as m flowers. Fruits spherical, 4 mm. 
; Sty glaucous, i 
sub-tuberculate. E E eee —— o 
iue shrub of 4 meters, at Unduavi, Bolivia, 3300 meters 
a'ütude, November, 1910.” (Otto Buchtien, No. 2810.) 
