26 NEW SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
pedicels slender, longer or much shorter than the calyx, which 
i .5 mm. long and broad, the base sub-truncate, the 
sepals ovate and acute. Petals a little longer than the sepals. 
Filaments short, stout. Ovary ovoid, nearly as long as ihe 
sepals, tapering into a short stout style, the stigmas large. 
“A shrub of 2 M., at Unduavi, Bolivia, 3,400 M. altitude, 
November 1910 (Otto Buchtien, No. 2854). 
Licania venosa. 
Finely gray-tomentellate, es branchlets slender, erect 
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strongly ascending, coarsely angled or sulcate, leafy. Petioles 
1.5 to 2 cm. long, stout, strongly channelled above, the margins 
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coarsely angled, loosely and openly branched. Flowers crowde 
at the ends of the branchlets, very shortly and stoutly pedicelled 
thick and coriaceous. Petals wanting. Stamens small, shorter 
than the calyx. Pistil small, globose, lanuginose. 
Manoa, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May 1896. (Rusby and 
Squires, No. 423.) Very near and possibly the same as Jen- 
man's No. 3839. 
Parinarium pachyphyllum. 
Inflorescence and lower leaf-surfaces finely gray-tomen- 
tellate. Branchlets stout, flex 
internodes about 2 cm. tipules not seen. Petioles 
mm. long, stout, channeled above, bearing 2 small black 
glands about two-thirds of the way above the base. Blades 
t cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. broad, oblong, or oval, with acute or 
obtusish base and summit, entire, thick and coriaceous, drying 
brown, minutely gray-tomentellate beneath, the venation very 
finely and very stoutly anastomosing, prominent on both sur- 
aces, more so beneath, the principal secondaries 20 or more on 
each side, slightly falcate, lightly connecting near the margin, 
