NEw SPECIES oF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 133 
cm. broad, lance-oblong, acuminate and acute at both ends, 
entire, thin, deep-green, the venation impressed on the upper 
shining surface, strongly prominent beneath, the slender second- 
aries about 8 on a side, falcate-ascending, connecting at some 
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ecurved, 5 cm. long, broadly oval, finely many-nerved, brown, 
smooth, the base rounded, the summit tipped by the calyx- 
tube, about 4 mm. long, with short teeth. Seeds compressed, 
irregularly triangular with obtuse angles, 7 to 9 mm. lon 
nearly as broad, light-brown, the surface granular-roughened. 
" Catalina, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May 1896." (Rusby 
and Squires, No. 222.) No. 173 is the same, without flowers 
or fruit. 
Duroia sprucei. 
(Fruiting specimen) 
Glabrous, the branchlets stout, blackish, the concave leaf- 
scars crowded, 4 mm. wide, li : : A , 
narrow stipule-bases. Interpetiolar stipules imperfect in my 
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Petioles 12 to 15 mm. long, stout, channeled above and keel 
olate with acuminate base gradually contracted into the petiole, 
and rounded or blunt summit, entire, thick and coriaceous, 
drying brown, some i 
sharply prominent beneath, the secondaries about 10 on eac 
side, strongly ascending and little falcate, connecting at or very 
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culate. Fruit sessile, 5 cm. long, 3 cm. broad, produc 
base into a very short stout stipe, 
4 mm. long and 6 mm. broad, glab 
wrinkled. 
Sacupana, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, April, 1896 od 
and Squires, No's. 171 and 172.) The same as Spruce's 3624. 
Alibertia $ranulosa. : 
us.  Branchlets short, widely sped terete, 
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2 cm. broad, brown, 
sessile, globose, about m. long, 3 mm. 
(becoming smooth ?), the calyx-tube 4 m 
