44 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
Pistillate Flowers.—Calyx 3 mm. long, the sepals obovate, 
acute. Disk much like that of the staminate flower. Petals 
e, 
tate. Fruit 4 mm. long, broadly ovoid with rounded top, 
obed. ; 
“A shrub, to 3 or 4 feet. Rare in dry forest below 500 feet. 
Collected in an open water course 6 miles north of Bonda, 
about 100 feet altitude, November r, and from Masinga 250 
feet, July 7." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1467.) 
Croton (§ Lasiogyne) cienagensis. DI 
Finely, closely and softly stellate-puberulent. Branchlets 
slender, terete, recurved. Stipules minute, setaceous, caducous. 
Petioles 6 to 8 mm. long, slender, the glands not obvious. Blades 
6 to 8 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. broad, ovate with cordate base, the 
with narrow base. Torus pilose, the disk not apparent. Sta- 
mens about 20, the filaments a little longer than the sepals, the 
anthers large. 
Pistillate  Flowers.—Calyx-lobes I.5 mm. long, narrow, 
yellow at the summit. Glands of the disk obscure, adnate to 
the base of the calyx. Petals none. Ovary globose, gray- 
hairy. Styles _explanate, distinct, entire, the stigma. small, 
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“A tree or large shrub, to 1 5 feet of very peculiar appearance, 
due to the dark-green velvety foliage. Moderately common 
in scrubby forest-plains, 5 miles east of Cienaga, September 11, 
a elsewhere." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
368. 
Croton ($ Lasiogyne) obtusus. 
Stems, petioles, inflorescence and | 
, j : ower leaf-surfaces densely 
e softly tomentose and light-gray or whitish, the upper leaf- 
surłaces deep-green and sparsely stellate-dotted, more or less 
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