New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 19 
later would become coherent at the base, terminating in the 
conical-acuminate style. Ovule one, erect from the base. 
Santa Catalina, Venezuela, May, 1896. (Rusby and Squires, 
No. 158.) 
Duguetia rostrata. 
and coherent below the mi 
Santa Catalina, Venezuela, May, 1896. 
(Rusby & Squires, No. 157.) 
Trigynaeia anastomosans. 
mens and pistils not seen. Fruit sub-globose, the carpels sessile 
ddle. 
obtuse point a ng; entire, bright-green, thin, the 
slender, coarsely reticulate venation slightly prominent above, 
shar so underneath, the principal secondaries about 12 o 
each side, strongly anastomosing by loops a short distance from 
the rgin, wnich inly revolute. Flowe solitary, on 
peduncles 4 or 5 cm. long, terete, and thickened upward. Sepals 
3, erect or in g roader, acute, flesh 
e 
long, the filament dilated upward, the summit as wide as the 
anther, and about as long as the anther, w uncate 
n : 
Pistils 4 mm. long, the ovary turgid, falcate, lanceolate, the 
stigma terminal, purple, short. Ovules several, in one series. 
Sacupana, Venezuela, April 1896 (Rusby and Squires, No. 
155.) 
Oxandra ovata. 
(Fruiting specimen.) 
ous, the branches stout, the branchlets divaricate or 
cm. lo 
r 
widely spreading. Leaves sub-sessile, 5 to 10 2.5 - 
