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stout. Panicles terminal and in the upper axils, the latter 
shorter than their leaves, sessile or very short peduncled, rather 
densely flowered. owers very shortly and stoutly peduncled, 
he 
vary densely hirsute, the style filiform, the stigma capitate, 
about equalling the stamens. Fruit stoutly peduncled, 4 cm. 
long, 2 cm. broad, oblong, terete, the base abruptly contracted 
iato the peduncle, obtuse, gray-tomentellate. 
“A tree to 50 or 60 feet, common below 2,000 feet, prin- 
cipally on banks of streams. Collected near Bonda, 150 feet, 
February 15. Fruit ripens in October and November, but some 
remain on tree till next flowering season." 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1775.) 
Moquilea cuspidata. 
almost alike, thick and coriaceous, the venation slender but 
sharply prominent, the secondaries about 12 on each side, 
broadly campanulate, the lobes ovate, obtuse, thic 
IO, nearly straight, about twice the length of the calyx, the fila- 
ments slender. Ovary small, broader than long, the style 
originating from the middle of the side, slightly exceeding the 
ens. 
“A tree to 50 feet or higher, in mountain forests near Las 
Partidas, Colombia, 3,500 feet, March 10.” (Herbert H. Smith, 
No. 1773.) 
Moquilea orinocensis. 
(Fruiting specimen.) l 
Glabrous, the branchlets stout, terete, strongly ascending, 
leafy, the peduncles nearly erect. Petioles 3 mm. long, stout, 
