NEW SPECIES OF TREES FROM BOLIVIA 261 
green with brown spots, the fruit green, evidently of two generations on the 
same tree 
It is not possible to say with absolute certainty, from speci- 
mens collected in this stage of growth, whether this is a species 
of Nectandra or of Ocotea. The slender midribs and veins of the 
leaves are more those of Ocotea than of Nectandra, but the tomen- 
tose flower-buds are characteristic of Nectandra, the flowers of 
Ocotea being usually glabrous. There is no species of either 
Nectandra or Ocotea with which this can be identified. 
Ocotea pseudo-coto Rusby, sp. nov. 
oung growth and inflorescence whitish-puberulent, the 
lower surfaces of the mature leaves minutely and _ sparsely 
ag lal the branchlets elongated and stout, little spreading, 
deep 
red, more or less angled. Leaves, including the — 
at cm. roe 1.5-3 cm. broad, the petioles I-1.5 cm. long, 
deep red, the upper surface moi plane. Blades diel oblong, 
acuminate at base and wit a very abrupt short and stout 
obtuse point at the summit, the margin entire, not series the 
upper surface brown when dry, glabrous, slightly lustrous, the 
midrib slightly prominent, sharply so underneath, the six to 
near the margin. Panicles axillary, less than half the length o 
their leaves, sessile or etoaccile. broad, rather dense as seen 3 
the young state. Bracts thickish, red, broadly ovate. Perigo 
thin, glabrous, ean oped in the specimen. The other deel 
parts are too young for characterization 
Collected by s O. E. White in the mountains south of 
Huachi, near the Cochabamba River, Bolivia, at an altitude of 
2500 to 300 feet, September 9, 1921. Mulford Biological 
Exploration No. 1051, collected as ‘‘Coto No. 2” and under the 
name “‘coto ordinario.”’ It is to be noted that the term “ordin- 
ario,’’ as applied by these natives to any substance or article, 
has the significance that the article is of inferior quality. 
Dr. White contributes the following field notes:— 
large forest tree, growing with Nos. 1048 and 1050 and of the same 
general habit. Young buds only, and no fruit encountered. Bark thick and 
easily peeled, not specially aromatic and not pungent. The peeled wood 
remains white. Wood reddish-white internally. 
The same difficulty of identification presents itself with this 
species as with No. 1050. The buds are a little more developed 
and the perigone characters are found to correspond with those 
of Ocotea. 
