New SPECIES OF SovUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 45 
pitted in drying. Branches stoutish, terete. Stipules not 
visible. Petioles to 2 cm. long, slender, narrowly grooved, the 
glands minute, sessile, blackish. Blades 4 to 7 cm. long, 2.5 to 
cm. wide, oval or ovate with rounded, minutely apiculate 
ate crowded above, 2 or 3 together on filiform pedicels longer 
than themselves and subtended by shorter subulate gray-hairy 
bractlets. 
isk 1.5 mm. broad, the lobes oval, partly adnate to the base 
of the calyx. 
Pistillate Flower.—Calyx parted nearly to the base, „the 
lobes 2.5 mm. long, linear, obtusish. Petals none. Disk simi- 
lar to that of the male flower, but larger. Ova depressed 
globose, densely long-pilose. Styles elongated, spreading, dis- 
tinct, entire, the stigmas small. 
“A shrub, to 5 or 6 feet, in thickets on dry rocks on a hill 
near the sea at Santa Marta, September 13." (Herbert H. 
Smith, Colombia, No. 351) : 
Croton (§ Palanostigma) ochromaefolius. 
early deciduous.  Petioles (only the upper seen) 1.5 dm. long, 
6 mm. thick at the base, very stout, narrowly and deeply grooved 
shorter and stouter than the petiole, very disnei and we 
Spike becoming 4 dm. or more long and 2.5 cm. wide, 
the flowers distinct at the base, dense above, brownish-yellow, 
the fascicle densely many-flowered, the pedicels at length about 
as long as the flowers, stout, the bracts very small, linear, at- 
nuate, 
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