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telia. It has, however, one peculiarity in sometimes having 
stipules, which do not seem to be known in other genera of 
the Elewocarpee; nor do they exist in the Sloanew ; but this 
appears to be only a partial feature in the genus. 
I have drawn up an amended character of Vallea from my 
own observations. 
VaLLEA, Mutis.—Vlores hermaphroditi. Sepala 5, oblonga, 
acuta, marginibus lanuginosis, estivatione valvata. Pe- 
tala 5, sepalis paulo longiora, membranacea, obovata, fere 
ad medium 3- loba, marginibus supersessis, xstivatione im- 
bricata. Discus crassus, in annulos 2 fossa intermedia con- 
strictus, exteriore plano, margine undulato toro adnato, in- 
teriore subcupuleformi, margine elevato et crenulato, in- 
tervallo staminigero. Stamina 40, in seriebus 2, in con- 
strictione disci crebre disposita ; filamenta linearia, compla- 
nata, superne tenuiora, puberula, apice incurvata; anthere 
lineares, sub-4-gonz, antice et postice profunde sulcatee, 
basifixee, 2-loculares, apice utrinque poro obliquo angulato 
dehiscentes. Ovarium conico-rotundum, 3—4-sulcatum, 3- 
4-loculare, loculis 3-ovulatis ; ovu/a subreniformia, axe cen- 
trali affixa, superposita: s/y/us filiformis, erectus, stamina 
eequans, glaber; stigmata 3—5, subbrevia, teretia, subdivari- 
cata. Hructus baccatus, globosus (pericarpio succulento, in 
tubercula plurima elongata obtusa carnosa corrugato, endo- 
carpio levi), 3- -locularis, siccus dehiscente ad apicem brevis- 
sime ac loculicide 3-valvatim aperiens: semina pauca, ig- 
nota. 
Arbores Neogranadenses et Peruviane, frondose ; folia al- 
terna, integra, ovato-oblonga, subcordata, integra, petiolata, 
interdum stipulata, stipulis parvis, reniformibus, geminis ; 
paniculi axdllares et terminales, pedicellis bracteatis. 
1. Vallea stipularis, Mutis in Linn. f. Suppl. 266; DC. Prodr. 
i. 520; H. B. K. v. 349, tab. 489. a, Sita Fé de Bogota : 
v. 8. in herb. Mus. Brit. (Mutis). 
This plant is very well described and figured by Kunth. 
2. Vallea pubescens, H. B. K. v. 350 ;—ramulis teretibus, ni- 
grescentibus, junioribus ferrugineo- -tomentosis ; foliis ovato- 
oblongis, imo subrotundis, vix cordatis, apice subobtusis, 
integris, e basi 3—5-nerviis, nervis conspicuis, reticulato 
venosis, supra nitidis, glaberrimis, subtus flavido-glaucis, 
undique preesertim in axillis nervorum molliter ferrugineo- 
pubescentibus ; petiolo tenui, fere glabro, limbo dimidio 
breviore; stipulis geminis, reniformibus, fere sessilibus, 
extus parce puberulis: paniculis axillaribus, folio paulum 
