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with Clusia. It has 6 to 7 or 8 ovarian cells, each ipee. 
a number of horizontal podus ovules, and the plant has all 
the habit of Clusia, but the carpels taper into Peat lance- 
olate styles with terminal, peltate, concave stigmas, the styles 
in the young fruit state becoming erect or sub-erect. 
belong to no other described genus than Clusia, but I believe 
it to be distinct from that. In the absence of flowers, I can do 
no more than RA this view. All the above remarks apply 
to the followin 
Clusia (?) rateo 
Glabrous, the branchlets short, stout but weak, recurved, 
m aves 4 to 6 
prominent beneath, very slightly so above oung fruits few, 
sessile the summit. Sepals sub-rotund, broader than long, 
appressed, fleshy with hyaline margin bout as iod 
“A shrub 6 ta 8 feet high; Talamai Bolivia, 10,000 feet, 
September 25, 1902. (R. S. Williams, 1543-)” 
Vismia falcata Rusby. 
Upper leaf-surfaces glabrous, drying brown, the lower spar- 
ingly and very finely ferruginous- ce eead this covering 
cal 
terete. Petioles about 2 cm. long, the blades ST n m. long 
wide, lanceolate with sub- geris slighty 
and acu 
inaequilateral bas se and long-acuminate te ; it, 
slightly falcate, entire, thickish, the vem sharply y prominent 
underneath, faintly so above, finely reticulate, the principa 
veins about 18 pairs, ascending at an angle of a 45 degrees 
Sepals 7 mm. lon ‘ 
thick, strongly a 2 ribbed i in the dry state. Petals and stamens 
my specimen. Young fruit blackish, globose, 
tipped by five long perm styles which me distinct to the base 
and bear large stigmas. Seeds numerou 
Collected by Rusby and Squires at aid Catalina on the 
lower Orinoco in May, 1896. (No. 142.) 
> Vismia angustifolia. : Du 
Closely and rather sparsely ferruginous-pubescent. Br 
lets Gender, terete, the internodes about 3 cm. long. P etioles 
