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leaflets 7, the lowest pair smaller, the larger 15 cm. long, 6 c 
broad, oblong-oblanceolate, with the base abruptly contacte 
into the very short petiolule ns with a very abrupt acutish 
en 
terminal point 2 Or pe mm. long; thin, deep-green, p ^ der 
venation prominent beneath and slightly so above, i 
cipal veniam about 15 on each side, lightly Pu and 
little ascending, Kaa near the margin, the venation 
leaves. Panicles crowded at the ends of the branchlets, the 
long stout peduncles sharply angled and striate, much branched 
above, the ultimate branchlets crowded at the summit an 
densely flowered at their summits. Bracts very =- ovate, 
acute, thick. Flowers sessile, the calyx 1 mm. lon and 2 mm. 
broad, thick, lobed nearly half way, the lobes nedya semi-circu- 
lar, with a minute point at the summit. Petals 3 mm. long, 
ovate, obtuse. Stamens 8, 2 mm. long, equalling the aa the 
filaments very short. Ovary short-conical. Disk with 8 ob- 
tuse protuberences. 
“A tree to 50 feet, in damp, low forest near the coast. Flow- 
ers whitish. Don Diego, May 21," (H. H. Smith, Colombia, 
No. 2743.) 
Protium Orinocense: 
Glabrous, the branchlets stout, terete. Petioles 2 to 4 cm. 
long, stout, sub-terete, attached by a broad base. Leaf tri- 
foliolate. Petiolules a the ede feeds I to I.5 cm. long, 
stout, the blades 10 I5 cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. broad, lance- 
oblong with MET bidet Tu and abruptly short- 
acuminate and obtuse summit, thick and coriaceous, deep-green, 
the slender venation prominent on both sides, the principal 
very shortly and stoutly pedicelled, the das minutely white- 
pilose at the base. Calyx 2 or 3 mm. broad, the lobes very 
broadly ovate, acute, spreading. Corolla about twice the 
pire of the calyx. 
Near Ea Catalina, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May 1896. 
(Rusby and Squires, No. 133.) 
Another specimen from the same region, without number, 
may be a distinct species. Some of its leaves are 5-foliolate, 
