24 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
Morisonia elliptica. 1 
Inflorescence, branchlets, etc., more or less scurfy. Branch- 
lets stout, flexuous. Petioles 1 or 2 cm. long, stout, the blades: 
summit, thick, very scurfy. Petals 1.5 cm. long, elliptical ova 
with a short claw, pilose within, slightly scurfy without. Stati 
mens numerous, 8 mm. long and about equalling the pistil, the” 
upward into 
the anthers, which bear an ovate terminal appendage. Stipe 
nearly as long as the ovary, very thick. Ovary nearly as broad” 
as long, broadly ro-ribbed, the sessile discoid stigma nearly as 
wide as the ovary very thi “Fruit globose, brown, rough- 
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ish, 114 inches in diameter” (Smith). 43 
“A spreading tree, to 20 feet. Rare in dry forest near the - 
coast and for several miles inland. Flowers and fruit on het 
same tree. Petals whitish or with a greenish-yellow tinge. 
Collected near Playa Brava, April 10." (Herbert H. Smith, Co- 
lombia, No. 2098). The specimen is accompanied by a single 
detached leaf that is broadly ovate, and highly inequilateral, 
but otherwise like the others. It seems hardly possible that it. : 
belongs to the species and is more probably the leaf of a Cap- 
paris. E 
Elaeodendron macrophyllum. 
-Glabrous, the branchlets slender, terete, purplish. Peti- 
oles 6 mm. long, stout, the blades 10 to 17 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. 
broad, oblon i ina 
“Falls of Madeira, Brazil, October 1886” (H. H. Rusby 
No. 1248). 
Specimen near Spruce’s No. 2097. 
