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34 NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
Bracts small, produced into attenuate, or filiform tips. F low- 
ers I to 3 together, the pedicels 1 to 2 mm. long, sharply angled, 
dilated gradually into the turbinate calyx-tube, which is about. 
as long as the triangular-ovate acute lobes, the calyx about 2 
i . Petals about twice the length of the calyx-lobes, 
ovate, blunt, lightly keeled. Ligule of the petal extending 
basal glands very small. Ovary ovoid, longer than the tube | 
of the stamens, the styles distinct, tortuous, longer than the 
stamens, the stigmas small. 
"In thickets by a stream at Masinga Vieja, 800 feet, April 
25. A shrub or small tree, 5-15 feet. Rather rare."  (Her- 
bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 788.) 
Picramnia villosa. 
Branchlets, inflorescence, petioles, etc., gray-tomentellate, 
the branchlets finely nerved. Leaves (only the upper seen) 2 
or 3 dm. long, on short, stout petioles, the leaflets about 5 on a 
side, not opposite, the petiolules scarcely longer than broad, 
cumination, entire, thic eep-green on bot ces, some- 
what s ; the venation coarsely reticulate, slender, lightly 
Prominent on both surfaces, the principal veins tomentellate 
flowers one to several on short nodes. Sepals 1.5 mm. long, 
erect or slightly spreading, rigid, ovate, acutish, yellow-tomen- 
e. Petals smaller than sepals, oblanceolate, obtuse. Sta- 
quens teal. ary to base of style-branches shorter 
ers Rai. Page red ae ova a little broader than long, the 
pee eie y anches strongly recurved. Staminate 
Pa tree, probably 30 or 40 feet high, in the forest.” (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1740.) Triana’s No. 5705 in Herb. 
Kew, under the name “P, villosa”, without author and ap- 
parently not published, apparently the same, has fruits which 
are L5 cm. long, oval-elliptical and black. 
Protium mucronatum, 
labrous, excepting the sparsely puberulent i rescence. 
ee stout, striate. Petioles ot de foliage series 1 dm. 
re long, stout, sub-terete, the rachis somewhat longer, the 
