260 NEW SPECIES OF TREES FROM BOLIVIA 
Those interested further in these subjects should consult 
future numbers of the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical 
Association. 
Nectandra coto Rusby, sp. nov. 
Young parts, inflorescence and lower leaf-surfaces densely 
and finely yellowish-tomentellate, the twigs stout. Mature 
leaves, including the petiole, 10-20 cm. long, 3~7 cm. wide, the 
petiole 2-3 cm. long, stout, sharply channelled above when dry, 
reddish brown; blade thi ck and coriaceous, 23 Sess er 
prominent, the secondaries twelve to fourteen on each side, 
the margin, the 'interspaces faintly reticulate. Inflorescence 
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it when young. Fruiting pedicel of variable length, 
sicketed upward and becoming continuous with the calyx. 
roughish, single but showing two distinct layers, the light brown 
fruit slightly projecting when mature, its summit lightly convex, 
finely granular or lightly mottled, bearing the very short, stout, 
acute style. 
Mulford Biological Sapa Nos. 1048 and 1050. Collect- 
ed by Dr. O. E. White as ‘‘Coto No. 1” (No. 1048) and “Coto 
No. 1a” (No. 1050), and a the native names “coto piquiante”’ 
and ‘‘coto fino.”” Mountains south of Huachi, near the Cocha- 
bamba River, Bolivia, at an altitude of 2500 to 3000 feet, 
_September 9, 1921 
Dr. White’s field notes are as follows:— 
No. 1048.—A tree 50 to 60 feet high, with few branches except near the 
sandal-wood yellow and a satiny luster, the trunk turning brown after being 
peeled. Leaves whitish beneath, dark- to light-green and 
Young growth cinnamon-brown. Flower buds whitish. Cup of fruit brown 
