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“A tree I5 feet high, in dry forest, Bonda, 150 feet, April 
fo” (No. 1771). 
_ Apodanthes tribracteata. 
ant in HU glabrous, ini fruits closely sessile in the 
crevices of t ark of a tree-trunk. Bracts three, slightly 
unequal, m at the base, gn 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, 
ovate with rounded summit, thick and fleshy, ud especially 
. on the inner surface, slightly concave, closely enclosing the base 
of the calyx, which is adnate to about the middle of the fruit, 
E early 1 cm. long, 4-lobed about two-thirds of the way, the 
lobes broadly ovate obtuse, the upper half free, the sinuses 
closed or narrow for most of their length. Fruit 13 mm. long 
and ro mm. wide, globose-ovoid. Stigma ‘are unless its 
lower two-thirds be regarded as a style, two or three mm. long, 
and of rather greater breadth, ovoid-conical, min ents puberu- 
lent or granular, the summit plane. | Placent sut laterally 
— expanded to line the cavity, poama y plicate perhaps as 
= the result of drying. Seeds minute, very n 
" Near Inglis—Inglis, Bolivia, 550 feet pred on a tree 
trunk, the fruit yellowish-green, August 8, 1902." (R. S. 
Williams, No. 1580.) 
Ruprechtia tenuiflora Benth (?) 
Santa Catalina, lower Orinoco, Venezuela (Rusby and 
Squires, No. 417). 
r. Prain, Director of the Kew Botanical Garden, to whom 
I referred this plant, states that it is closely allied to the species 
here named. Since my specimen is only a fragment of the 
pistillate plant, in flower, and I have no specimen of R. tenui- 
flora for comparison, I must thus dispose of it for the present. 
Allionia craterimorpha. 
Softly pilose with spreading white hairs. Stems diffuse, 
the branches very slender, the internodes 5 to 7 cm. long, 
strongly angled x sulcate. oe of the pair unequal, the 
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orm or nearly hemispherical, about 1 cm. broad, lobed about 
pulli E Flowers 3, sessile, the calou-t tube scarcely 
2 mm. long, obovoid, 5-ribbed, pilose, the limb urceolate or 
campanulate with contracted margin, about twice as wide as 
