264 NEW SPECIES OF TREES FROM BOLIviA 
into the broad concave base, bse pedicel proper scarcely one- 
fifth - = of the flower, obscurely angled. Unopened 
calyx n Mature dawers about 6 mm. long, the erect 
cai rg coils 2.5-3 mm. broad. Calyx crateriform, 3 
mm. broad, closely investing the base of the corolla, deeply 
ong ‘the ae oe purple, broadly ovate and obtuse. 
Petals 6 mm. long m. broad, oblong, obtuse, slightly thick- 
ened at Go pucdco or rose colored summit, the basal portion white. 
Stamen-tube three-fourths the smi ‘of the petals, broadly 
b h h 
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uite so broad as the lower half, the margin shallowly eight- 
appressed-pilose, the ovoid ovary about equalling the stout 
Immature fruit fig-shaped, hee contracted at the base, then 
tapering into the stout short pedicel. Mature fruit not seen. 
A small tree in the forest a Rurrenabaque, Bolivia, at an 
altitude of about 1000 feet. Collected by H. H. Rusby in 
flower and fruit, on the Mulford Biological Exploration, October 
6, 1921 (No. 797). 
e species is peculiar in its very long slender raceme and in 
the handsome rose and white coloration of its flowers. 
