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62 NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
In its peculiar inflorescence characters as well as in those of 
the stamens, this plant appears to represent a distinct genus, but 
in the absence of fruit, it is tentatively referred to Rinorea. 
Mr. Smith sends another specimen under the same number 
from the same region, February 25, of which he says: “A tree 
to 40 feet, common locally in mountain forest, 4000 to 5500 
feet. Flowers white." This specimen has leaves little more 
than half as large, closer together and drying of a pale green 
and the flowers are smaller. 
Hasseltia lateriflora. 
oung petioles, etc., sparsely puberulent, with yellowish 
hairs. Branchlets stout, terete, whitish or pale, very leafy. 
Petioles 2 cm. or less long, rather stout, sub-terete, dilated at 
an abrupt and very short blunt point, thick, entire, 3-nerved, 
the lateral pair starting from the petiole and running near the 
margin for a little more than half the length, the secondaries 3 
slender. Calyx lobed nearly to the base, the lobes 4 mm. long, 
lanceolate, blunt. Petals resembling the sepals and a little 
"A tree, to 60 feet, in mountain forest, 4000 to 6000 feet. 
Collected, on Sierra del Libano, 6000 feet, January 21." (Her 
rt H. Smith,-No. 1915). = 
A specimen collected by Traill, on the Purus, is very similar, 
if not identical as to species. 
Casearia (Pitumba) onacaensis. 
nflorescence minutely puberulent. Branchlets slender, ter- 
ete, ss Lae the internodes about I.5 cm. long. tioles 6 
beneath, the secondaries 5 o o si o 
fcu scarcely connecting, the venaion finely reticulate. 
ascicles nearly circular as pressed, about I cm. broad. Pedicels 
