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than half as long, somewhat quadrangular, tuberculate, pur- 
plish, subtended by the persistent and accrescent calyx, and 
bearing four persistent styles which are linear, stout, and un- 
divided. Cells 4, each one-seeded, the arilled seed attached 
by the middle of the face to the central placenta. Seed 4 mm. 
long, triquetrous, black, slightly wrinkled. 
Flowering Specimens: ‘‘A shrub, 6 to 8 feet, edges of dry 
forest, 6 miles south of Mametoca, about 400 feet, April 11,” 
and ‘‘a shrub of shrubby tree to 7 or 8 feet, in dry thickets near 
Masinga, 250 feet, May 30, the flowers pale greenish. I believe 
that No. 410 is the fruit of this species." (Herbert H. Smith, 
Columbia, No. 1716.) v 
Fruiting Specimen: “A shrub or small tree, occasional in 
dry forest below 1,000 feet. Masinga, July 31." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 410.) 
This species was at first regarded as P. nobilis, and may be 
the same as Eggers’ Ecuador No. 15574. Farther study, how- 
ever, convinces me that it is distinct from that glabrous plant. 
A specimen collected on the lower Orinoco, Venezuela by Rusby 
and Squires is pubescent, but I am now inclined to include that 
with the present species. 
> Croton ($ Lasiogyne) bondaensis. 
ules setaceous and brown from a broad green base, 6 mm. long, 
deciduous. Petioles 6 to 8 mm. long, stout, the glands at the 
summit stipitate and discoid. Blades 4 to 7 cm. lon o4 
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filiform, the anthers broadly ovate. 
