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58 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
narrowl ooved. Blades 10 to 13 cm. long, 4 to 5 
pe s sbovate, with acute base and a very abrupt, short, 
narrow and acute point at the summit, thin, lightly and pe 
y serrulate, some of the teeth rounded and some minutely 
pointed, above deep-green and sub-glabrous, with the vensi 
slightly prominent, underneath pale, pilose on the veins-an 
becoming nearly glabrous, the venation prominent, the prin- 
al s 
gin, connected by very numerous straightish tertiaries. Pan- 
icles e Ad pert and broad, densely flowered, the 
bracts small, linear, or lance-linear, the flowers mostly short- 
pedicelled, the pedicels slender, the soo deii, + short 
and scurfy, slightly pnus Flow 
"A forest tree at Coticuilita. 1500 feet, May." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 85 
Species near S. pedunculata H. B. K. 
Clusia gs apa hon 
us, 2 dus tout, angled, brown, rough with 
ves 15 0 ae 3 to 4 cm. broad, the 
ath, the sec 
slightly falcately ascending, 
aceme terminal, strongly peduncled, few flowered. Only 
pistillate flowars seen These long and ‘stoutly Wc 3 de 
4 cm. broad. Br racts 2, rotund, about 12 mm P 
and sepals similar, the petals narrower, obovate with arro 
base, nearly 2 cm. long. Stam 
207 (Herbert 
“Clusia ages a Bull. N. Y. Bot. ME 28: 105. 
A fur fies stud 
scribed next below, leaves me very doubtful about its affinity 
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