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Type locality: In forests. La Palma, Costa Rica. 

 Distribution: Costa Rica. 



12. Guarea erythrocarpa C. DC. Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. II. 5: 420. 1905. 



A tree with glabrous branches; leaflets 6, opposite, short-petioluled, glabrous on both 

 sides, obovate-elliptic, about 24 cm. long and 10 cm. broad, the apex short-acuminate; panicle 

 branched from the base, the branches minutely puberulent; pedicels about 1 mm. long; calyx 

 campanulate, minutely puberulent on the outside with appressed hairs, the teeth ovate, 

 obtuse; petals oblong, glabrous, 12 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, in aestivation valvate; staminal 

 tube cylindric, glabrous, entire, shorter than the petals; ovary glabrous; stigma orbicular; 

 capsule elliptic, about 3 cm. long, glabrous; seeds oblong-elliptic, 15 mm. long, 5 mm. broad. 



Type locality: Forests of Las Vueltas, Tucurrique, Costa Rica. 

 Distribution: Costa Rica. 



13. Guarea bijuga C. DC. in DC. Monog. Phan. 1: 567. 1878. 



IGuarea Kegelii Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36': 589. 1863. 



A tree; branches glabrous; petioles and rachis terete, glabrous; leaflets 4, oblong-elliptic 

 to elliptic, 19-23 cm. long, 8-9.5 cm. broad, opposite, acute and equilateral at the base, acu- 

 minate at the apex, glabrous on both sides, reticulate-veined; branches of the inflorescence 

 spike-like, dense-flowered, about equaling the petioles, more or less appressed-hirsute; flowers 

 short-pedicelled; calyx 4- toothed, the teeth deltoid, acute, hirsute at the apex, the hairs 

 scattered and appressed below; petals oblong, 6-7 mm. long, 1 .5 mm. broad, acutish or rounded, 

 hirsute at or near the apex, glabrous or nearly so below the middle; staminal tube cylindric, 

 8-toothed, pilose on the outside, the teeth shallow, rounded; anthers elliptic; ovary 4-celled, 

 glabrous or nearly so; style glabrous; fruit not seen. 



Type locality: Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Guatemala. 



14. Guarea Cook-Griggsii C. DC. Smithson. Misc. 

 Coll. 68 6 : 2. 1917. 



A large tree with grayish-brown twigs; leaves 2.5 dm. or more long, long-petioled, the 

 petioles and rachis puberulent when young, glabrous or nearly so in age; leaflets 6 or more, 

 opposite, oblong-elliptic or elliptic, 18 cm. or more long, 8-10 cm. broad, acute or short-acu- 

 minate at the apex, obtuse or somewhat acutish at the base, glabrous, reticulate-veined, the 

 midvein and primary veins prominent beneath; inflorescence raceme-like, S-18 cm. long, the 

 branches puberulent; flowers short-pedicelled; calyx 2.5-3 mm. wide, puberulent, 4-toothed, 

 the teeth acute; petals oblong, 3-5 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, in aestivation valvate; anthers 

 ■elliptic; ovary 4-celled, glabrous, sessile or nearly so; staminal tube cylindric, glabrous, the 

 margin minutely crenulate. 



Type locality: Near Finca Sepacuite, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Guatemala. 



15. Guarea Kunthiana A. Juss. Mem. Mus. Paris 19: 241. 

 290. 1830. 



Guarea Kunthiana Hahnii C. DC. in DC. Monog. Phan. 61: 562. 1878. 

 Guarea Kunthiana Hahniana Krug & Urban; Duss. Fl. Ant. Fr. 128. 1897. 

 Guarea Wittiamsii C. DC. Smithson. Misc. Coll. 68 B : 4. 1917. 



A small or medium-sized tree; leaves 8-16 cm. long, the petioles and rachis subterete or 

 slightly grooved above, puberulent when young; leaflets 4-S, opposite, elliptic or somewhat 

 elliptic-obovate, 12-20 cm. long, 5-10 cm. broad, abruptly and obtusely short-acuminate at 

 the apex, rounded or somewhat acutish at the base, short-petioluled, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 coriaceous; secondary veins obsolete; panicle axillary, the branches more or less ridged, 

 puberulous; flowers short-pedicelled; calyx open-campanulate, puberulent, early breaking 



