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gin. Axillary peduncles short, more or less angled toward the 
summit, few flowered, the bracts small, broadly ovate, acute. 
Only young buds and fruits seen, the fruits (mature?) globose, 
6 mm. broad, green. 
Sacupana, Lower Orinoco, Venezuela, April. (Rusby and 
Squires, Nos. 247 and 416.) 
Salacea mucronata 
Glabrous, the slender, terete, recurved, grayish branchlets 
retuse summit, the margin entire and sharply revolute, thickish, 
the principal secondaries about 8 or 9 on each side, slender 
spreading and anastomosing close to the margin, the fine vena- 
concave, about 2 mm. long. Flowers very shortly and stoutly 
pedicelled, the globose buds 1 to 1.5 mm. broad. Expanded 
broad, fleshy, the margin sinuate. Petals more 
than twice the length of the calyx, somewhat fleshy, sub-rotund. 
Disk annular, prominent, fleshy, sub-entire. Anthers 3, ve 
small, equaling the stigma, the filaments about 1 mm. long, 
stoutish, sigmoid-curved. Fruit not seen. 
Forests of the Lower Orinoco River, near Santa Catalina, 
Venezuela. (Rusby and Squires, No. 130.) 
Salacea catalinensis. i 
Veins of the lower leaf-surfaces, younger portions and in- 
florescence gray-puberulent. Branchlets stoutish, terete, pur-. 
cately ascendi ongly inter-arching a short distance 
a mid sete i i Peduncles in 
from the margin, connected by the tertiaries. : 
the upper axils and terminal, mostly shorter than their leaves, 
spreading, more or less angled and finely striate, successively 
dichotomous. Bracts rigid, ovate and concave, acute, 
bractlets similar but smaller. Pedicels short, slender. Flower 
about 13 mm. broad, the calyx two-thirds the breadth of the 
&reen corolla, shallowly lobed, the lobes rounded with minutely 
laciniate margins. Petals spatulate, 6 mm. broad, the mar 
lightly lacerate. Disk 6 or 7 mm. ad, circular, brown 
7 vies : : 
entire, lightly convex, the margin lightly upcurved. Filaments 
