New American Connaraceae 
S. F. BLAKE 
Connarus megacarpus sp. nov. 
Tree; leaflets 7 or 9, elliptic-oblong, 7-2-14.5 cm. long, 3-4.5 
cm. wide, emarginate, rounded at base, coriaceous, glabrous 
above, densely rufid-velvety beneath, short-petioluled; fruits 
spicate on the rufid-velvety branches of the panicle; follicle 
densely and persistently rufid-velvety, not striate or wrinkled, 
the stipe about 8 mm. long, the body 3-3.5 cm. long, 2—2.3 cm. 
wide, the beak stout, 2-4 mm. long. 
Petiole (3.5-4.5 cm. long) and rachis (6-12.5 cm. long) 
stout, terete, persistently cinereous-velutinous; petiolules similar, 
2-3 mm. long; leaflets elliptic-oblong or slightly elliptic-obovate, 
short-pointed with emarginate apex, rounded and emarginulate 
at base, narrowly revolute-margined, brownish-greenand shining 
above, densely and closely rufid- or ochroleucous-velvety on 
whole surface beneath, the lateral veins about 7 pairs, arcuate- 
joined near margin, prominulous beneath, scarcely so above, the 
secondaries obscurely reticulate beneath, the costa impressed 
above, prominent beneath; panicles about 13 cm. long, about 
as broad, the flowers sessile; calyx (persistent at base of fruit) 
rufid-velvety, 4 mm. long; fruiting follicle solitary, the body 
obovate-oval, glabrous inside, stout-apiculate at apex of the 
straight side; seed 2 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, the aril about 9 mm. 
ong. 
British GUIANA: abundant along the Demarara River, 
November 25, 1913, C. D. Mell (type in U. S. National Herba- 
rium, No. 694130). 
Similar in most characters to Connarus suberosus Planch. and 
C. Perrottetii (DC.) Planch., but both these species have fruits 
not over 2 cm. long. 
Rourea adenophora sp. nov. 
Small tree or vine; leaflets 3-7, elliptic to oval or oval- 
ovate, 2.5-13 cm. long, caudate-acuminate, rounded at base, 
firmly pergamentaceous, shining and densely prominulous- 
reticulate on both sides, puberulous on the costa on both sides 
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