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icle in the upper axils, about as long as their leaves, the slender 
peduncles about half the total length, the inflorescence lax an 
open. Perigone 2. id 
dark middle line, thick and rigid. Petals a little longer and 
much broader, thinner. Stamens varying greatly in develop- 
“A tree of 50 or 60 feet, pretty common in mountain forest 
near Valparaiso, 4,000 to 5,500 feet, February 25." (Herbert 
H. Smith, No. 1762.) 
Ocotea flexuosa. 
Staminate Plant.—Glabrous. Branchlets stout, flexuous, 
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base, urved, lax and open wers very rtly and 
stoutly pedicelled and bracteolate with thick, short, ovate, 
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Ovary very rudimentary. 
“A forest-tree in mountains above Don Amo estate, about 
2,500 feet, January 14." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
1764.) 
Ocotea alloiophylla. 
ortly tomentose and somewhat ferruginous. Branchlets 
short, stout, flexuous. Petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, very broad 
and stout, broadly channelled. Blades of the season 12 to 15 
cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. broad, obovate with acutish base and 
