Part 4, 1924] VOCHYACEAE 303 



4. Vochya hondurensis (Sprague) Standley. 



Vochisia hondurensis Sprague, Kew Bull. 1922: 183. 1922. 



Tree, 15-25 meters high, with dense, rounded or depressed crown, the wood white, weak, 

 the trunk slender, much exceeding the crown, smooth and grayish; branchlets glabrous, costate- 

 angulate; stipules subulate, 2-3 mm. long, tomentulose, deciduous; leaves 3-4-verticillate, 

 the petioles slender, 1.2-2.5 cm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, 

 8-14 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, rounded or very obtuse at apex and emarginate, acute or acu- 

 minate at base, coriaceous, glabrous, the venation inconspicuous above, the costa and lateral 

 nerves prominent beneath, the latter 10-13 pairs; flowers yellow, the thyrses terminal and 

 axillary, 6-20 cm. long, the rachis angulate and puberulous, the cymes 1-5-flowered, the pedicels 

 3-8 mm. long; buds linear, obtuse, 2 mm. thick; smaller sepals ovate-rounded, 1-2 mm. long, 

 ciliate, the blade of the posterior one 15 mm. long, the spur half as long, stout; petals obovate, 

 about 5 mm. long, ciliolate; anther glabrous, 6-10 mm. long, the filament half as long; ovary 

 glabrous, the style very long and slender. 



Type locality: Belize, British Honduras. 



Distribution: British Honduras, eastern Guatemala, Honduras, and Atlantic slope of Costa 



