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setis 1-4 munitis; stylo staminibus duplo longiore, stigmate minutissime 
papilloso; bacca subglobosa, 5-locularis. 
Frutex ad 2 m. altus. Petiolus 0.7-4.5 em. longus; lamina 10—25 em. longa, 
4-11 em. lata. Pedunculus communis 0.8-1 em. longus; pedicelli 0.5-1 mm. 
longi. Calycis tubus 2.5 mm. longus, dentes exteriores 2—2.5 mm. longi; 
setae terminales 1-1.5 mm. Petala 2.2-2.56 mm. longa, 1.2 mm. lata. 
Antherae apice uniporosae 2 mm. longae. 
PANAMA: Cafio Quebrado, Canal Zone, in shady forest, fl. June 14, 1914, 
Pittier 6667 (type). 
On account of the cauline flowers and general appearance, this species was 
placed first in the genus Henriettea. But further investigations showed the 
presence of fibro-vascular bundles both in the cortical layers and in the pith, 
so that if this character, given by Krasser,? is to be considered as constant and 
conclusive, there is no choice but to place the plant under Ossaea, Section 
Euossaea. It differs, however, from all the other species of this group, first 
in its leaves, glabrous and smooth above and more or less fuzzy beneath, and 
then in the prominent calyx teeth, provided with tiny spinelike articulate 
hairs up to the apex, which ends in a long bristle, and in the petals, also bearing 
from one to four long setae on their rounded upper end. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. GrorGE OtIs SMITH was reappointed Director of the U. 8. Geological 
Survey, effective September 24, when the Coal Commission, of which he 
was member, was dissolved. P.S. Smrtu, acting director, has returned to his 
former position of administrative geologist of the Survey. 
The Priestley Medal, given every third year by the American Chemical 
Society to an American chemist for marked service to science, was 
awarded to Dr. Ira Remsen, President-emeritus of The Johns Hopkins 
University, at the sixty-sixth convention of the society, recently held at 
Marquette University. 
ALEXANDER WetTMORE, Bureau of Biological Survey, has returned from 
Hawaii where he has had charge of an expedition organized by the Biological 
Survey and the Bishop Museum of Honolulu, in cooperation with the U. 5. 
Navy, to prosecute a general scientific survey of the Leeward chain of the 
Hawaiian group, and Johnston and Wake Islands. 
Dr. TRUMAN MICHELSON, of the National Museum, returned last month 
from his season’s field work in Labrador. In studying the origin of the 
Indians of that region and their dialects, Dr. Michelson made important 
discoveries regarding the Nascapi language, and the ethnological diffusion in 
the Labrador peninsula. 
* In Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 37:182. 1893. 
