NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS . 41 
on the face, the NEN coarsely lacerate in the middle, 
parted into several club-shaped divisions at each side. Sta- 
men-tube about 12 mm. long, saccate and set siia near 
the base, the free portion of the unequal filaments 2-3 mm. 
long, the anthers small. Stout style d dine exceeding 
the anthers By 3 or 4 mm the stigma incurved. Fruit, in- 
cluding the wing, 2.5 cm. or more long, the narrow base 3 i 
long, the strongly wrinkled body 12 mm. long by 6 mm i oed. 
the lower wing 20 mm. long on the more or less dentate lower 
edge, 16 mm. on ae up = its greatest breadth 6 mm. ob- 
liquely oblong, blunt, slightly falcately recurved, Tee many- 
nerved. Crest wing-formed, straight, nearly as long and 
about as wide as ua wing, slightly wider near the summit, 
where it is 2 or 3 dentate. 
Sacupana, near the mouth of the Orinoco, April, 1896. 
(Rusby and Squires No. 2r 
Securidaca venosa. 
Specimen in fruit. Rachis, petioles, veins, Hed etc., softly, 
UN cud ee sparsely puber ulent. Branchlets ve ry slen- 
der, flexu terete. Petioles very short, biglandular at the 
point of táértiotf. the blades 3 or 4 cm. long, 2 o 2.5 cm. broad, 
oval and nearly elliptical, entire, revolute, Suck glabrous above, 
with the midrib lightly impressed, the midrib and finely reticu- 
late venation very prominent beneath, with -— I veins 
puberulent, the principal secondaries 5 or 6 o h side. In- 
florescence wide Y and loosely appen - Pedigcis of cm 
summit, the secede thick. Fruits 4 cm. Folie tis e body 8 mm. 
long, obov roid, pubescent, very strongly reticulate, the marginal 
ribs continued into the w ing and crest, the lower one form 
mm. br road, its upper margin thick, obtuse, its lower margin 
continued into a short stout point. 
Near Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, Rusby and Squires, April 
1896, without number. Very near Fendler’s No. 2306 and ap- 
parently the same as Jenman’s No. 5005. Fendler’s has a 
broader wing and the crest acuminate and falcately incurved. 
Monnina Buchtienii. 
Short-tomentose throughout. Branchlets stout, densely leafy. 
Petioles 6 mm. long, stout, broadly and sha llowly grooved 
above, the blades 4 to 8 cm . long, 2 to 4 em. broad, ovate with 
lightly cordate base and acute or obtusish or minutely apicu- 
