28 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
sub-terete, the blades 5 to 10 cm. long, 1.5 to 4 cm. broad, lance- © 
ovate, with blunt or rounded base and a very short, blunt 
apical point, entire, thick and coriaceous, drying yellowish, . 
shining above, the finely reticulate venation prominent on both | 
sides, more so beneath, the principal secondaries about 12 omn | 
each side, strongly falcately ascending, connected by a series © 
of slender loops near the margin. Stipules not present. | 
he one fruit seen is 6 cm. long 2.5 cm. broad, slightly com- | 
pressed, slightly falcate, not angled, abruptly contracted into a 
short thick base and a somewhat longer and broader blunt. 
terminal portion. | 
Punta Piedras Island, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May 1896. | 
(Rusby and Squires, No. 426.) : 
The species is very near M. Guianensis and very nearly the ' 
same as Fendler’s specimen from Trinidad, which also appears 
to be undescribed. | 
Rourea laxiflora. 
Specimen in the voung budding state. E 
. Inflorescence ferruginous, tomentellate, the branchlets stout, ` 
terete, flexuous. Petioles 2 to 4 cm. long, slender, sub-terete, — 
E 
aril, Aril oblique, 2-lobed, the hilum in the si i keeled 1 
at the base, the margins due. ucc e T A 
_ Specimen unique, collected in Bolivia, by Miguel Bang, — 
without number or data. ; j 
Tournatea costata. 
i Inflorescence and veins of the lower leaf-surfaces. minutely . 
downy. Branchlets very stout. Petiole of the one leaf seen 4 
