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simple. Jood fibers about 1,256 mm. long,-, with thick walls, 

 small lamina, and small simple pits, Wood parenchyma very 

 abundant and arranged chiefly in very numerous tangential 

 lines barely visible under the hand lens on a smooth trans- 

 verse section, Hays numerous and cozispicuous under the 

 hand magnifier, from 1 to 5 cells wide and from 5 to 3 times 

 as high. ) 



Pis tributi o n, common names and uses 



The small leaved Gustavia is known only from the Loma de 

 la Gloria, near ?at6 en the eastern Atlantic Coast of Panama, 

 growing there in small clusters on the higher ridges. The 

 natives call it 3ejuco de Ltica , though it is not a vine, hs 

 the vvord Be juco would imply. The wood, which is fine- 

 grained and pretty hard, is not used to any extent. 



jlhizophoraceae 

 The ailiptic-Ieaved Gassipourea 



Cassipourea ellij^tica Poir. 5Ujt-i.l. 2: 34, 1811. 



Description of the tree 



A small tree, up to about 10 m. high and 30 cm, diameter, 

 the trunk mostly erect and straight, covered with a smooth 

 grayish bark, the branching radiate or irregular and Si^arse, 

 the crcwn usually elongate, the nev/ growth glabrous.^ Leaves 

 small, pale green, subcoriaceous, glabrous, the i>etioles 5 

 to 6 mm, long, the blades broad elliptic, more or less acute 

 at both ends, 5 to 10 cm, long, 3 to 5 cm, broad, often obseu- 

 rely serrate en the margin, :i'lower3 3 to 4-Glustered in the 

 axils of the leaves, the pedicels 5 ma. long, surrounded at 

 the base by many small, ovate-acuminate, hairy bracts; calyx 

 5-fid, 4 mm,, long, glabrous without, silky hairy within; 

 petals 4 or 5, purplish, long unguiculate, fimbriate on the 



