20 New SPECIES oF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
to 4.5 cm. broad, ovate with the base produced into a very short 
petiole, and an abruptly acuminate and obtusish summit, en- 
tire, thick, slightly lustrous above, the slender venation incon- 
tion. Fruits sessile on the paniculate branches, 10 to I4 mm 
long, nearly ellipsoidal, black, smooth. 
“Lower Rio Cocos, 2500 feet alt., March 25, 1902"' (R. s4 
Williams, Bolivia, No. 217). 
Nectandra amplifolia. 
Inflorescence grayish-downy, the hairs extremely minute. 
Branchlets flexuous, rather slender, coarsely angled, purplish. 
Petioles 10 to 15 mm. long, purple, very stout, shallowly chan- 
nelled, the groove extending into the midrib. Blades 12 to 25 
to TO C ng, 3 
cluding the peduncle, which is a little more than half the length, 
slender and strongly nerved or angled, the flowering portio 
short and broad, the bracts and bractlets caducous. Pedicels 
shorter than the flowers, very stout, angled. Sepals 3 mm. 
long, broadly oval or sub-rotund, thick, gray externally, purple 
i : 
Outer anthers sessile, broadly ovate, very thick, puberulent, the 
thecz small, near the base. Glands of the third set of stamens 
not apparent. Staminodia very small, linear or minutely 
capitate. Style stout, short, 3-lobed, the lobes recurved. 
"A tree, to 50 feet or more, in mountain forest near Las 
Partidas, 3,700 feet, March 17." (Herbert H. Smith, Colom- 
bia, No. 1763.) ; 
Ocotea flavescens. 
. Pistillate Plant — 
minutely puberulent. 
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long, rather stout purple i 
Jong, "Stout, » grooved above, the groove extending 
into the midrib. Blades 6 to se i 
and a pair of nerves which or iginate above the base, these being 
summit, leafy. Petioles 1 to I.5 cm. - 
12 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, | 
and short-acuminate | 
slightly so above, except the midrib | 
