WaTSON: THE GENUS HELIOCARPUS 125 
long-hirsute on the nerves especially at the — regularly but 
doubly serrate; panicle rather large and much branched; sepals 
4, linear, hooded, tuberculate at the apex; petals rien obova ate, 
glabrous; stamens about sixteen; ovary small, compressed, 
faces papillose-pubescent, fringe very evident, style long, four 
times the length of the ovary, bifid about one-fourth of its length, 
lobes acute, spreading; fruit stipitate, oval, y 4 mm. long, 
m. wide, faces hirsute but without plumose hairs, becoming 
less so with age, fringe about 4 mm. wide extending down the 
tipe. 
Type: Hassler 557, Paraguay, in the herbarium of the New 
York Botanical Garden; Hassler 557a, Paraguay; Curran 9, 
17,700, 718, Argentina. 
17. HELIOCARPUS DICLINUS Hochr. Ann. Conserv. oobi 
Bot. Genéve 18-19: 117. I916 
Shrub or tree; branches and young stems gray, puberulent; 
leaves orbicular, blade not more than 18 cm. long and wide, 
acutely three-lobed, often obscurely, apes surface dark, finely 
stellate-puberulent, lower surface much lighter, densely, closely 
aR EN nerves not hirsute; panicle rather small and 
n den 
ae iokas tuberculate; — greatly reduced in pistillate 
flowers, 0.5 mm. long, stamens a few sterile filaments, ovary 
slightly compressed ; suk ce Bee as long as the ovary, bifid, 
lobes spreading; fruit not seen. 
Type: H. H. Smith 1908, Santa Marta, Colombia. 
18. HELIOCARPUS DONNELLSMITHII Rose; J. Donnell 
Smith, Bot. Gaz. 31: 110. p’.7 
H. Caeciliae Loes.; Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. 12: 227. 1913. 
Small tree, 8-9 m. high; leaves integral, broadly ovate, short- 
sci ae off Cat ag at gerieneak cal round, finely serrate, 
lower serrations glandular, upper surface, shining, essentially 
glabrous, lower surface remotely abpoesenk: stellate, stellations 
mostly with three or _ rays, nerves slightly hirsute; panicle 
rather large, very loose, branches finely stellate and slightly 
hirsute, smooth; sepals ror. slightly hooded, but not appendaged 
or tuberculat e, 5 mm. long in perfect flowers, much — in 
pistillate oe petals long, obovate, one-nerved, the nerve 
dividing into three above, glandular, slightly stellate pc on 
’ the outside, petals none in pistillate flowers: picts = oe 
compressed, style three times the length of the ifid a 
the tip, ovary larger and style shorter, more iter lobed in 
