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acuminate, entire, acute to rounded at base, thinly and softly pubescent to scabrellate or 

 nearly glabrous on the upper surface, thinly and softly hirsute beneath; lateral veins 4-7 

 pairs, curved-ascending, veinlets conspicuously reticulate; petioles 1-2 cm. long, tomentose; 

 cymes in the upper axils, in fruit surpassed by subsequent growth of the stem, rounded, 

 many flowered, freely branched, 2-5 cm. broad; peduncles free or adnate to the petiole nearly 

 to the summit; sepals spreading, broadly round-ovate, inconspicuously 3-nerved, obtuse, 

 densely tomentose without, brownish-purple within, 2 mm. long; petals shorter than the 

 sepals, brown-purple, spatulate, unguiculate, involute and cucullate, bifid neaily to the middle, 

 the lobes obtuse; stamens ascending, the filaments 3 mm. long; ovary conic-ovoid, densely 

 white-tomentose; styles 2 ; fruit brown, flattened, ellipsoid, 15-20 mm. long, densely velutinous. 



Type lpcality: Escuintla, Guatemala. 

 Distribution: Guatemala. 



2. TAPURA Aubl. PI. Guian. 126. 1775. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, pinnately veined, mostly coriaceous; 

 stipules linear or narrowly lanceolate, deciduous. Inflorescence dense, capitate or sub- 

 capitate, few- to many-flowered, in the axils of the upper leaves; peduncle adnate to the petiole 

 nearly or quite to the base of the blade. Flowers sessile or short-pedicelled, small, perfect or 

 unisexual, zygomorphic. Sepals 5, imbricate, connate at base, somewhat unequal, mostly 

 erect. Corolla gamopetalous, short- tubular; corolla-lobes 5, 2 broad and 2-lobed, 3 narrow, 

 simple or somewhat 2-lobed. Stamens 5, adnate to the corolla to the summit of the tube; 

 anthers sessile or nearly so. Fertile anthers 3 (or rarely 5), associated with the larger corolla- 

 lobes; sterile filaments 2 (or rarely none), alternating with the 3 smaller corolla-lobes, pro- 

 longed into flattened or subulate appendages. Hypogynous disk unilateral at the side of the 

 larger petals. 



Type species, Tapura guianensis Aubl. 



Pedicels and calyx densely gray-tomentose. [ • T - antillana. 



Pedicels and calyx sparsely short-hirsute. 



Leaf-blades oblong to elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate, broadest at or below the 



middle, acute to obtuse. .,„,., AA t 2. 1 . cubensis. 



Leaf-blades oblong-obovate, broadest above the middle, blunt or rounded at 



the apex. ' • ° ° 



1. Tapura antillana Gleason, sp. nov. 



Tree about 10 m. high, with glabrous stems and foliage; petioles 8-12 mm. long; leaf- 

 blades thick and firm, oblong-ovate to elliptic or oblong, 8-15 cm. long by half as wide, sub- 

 acuminate into an acute or obtuse apex, entire, rounded at base, veins and veinlets conspicu- 

 ously reticulate beneath; umbels relatively loose, about 20-flowered; pedicels 2-4 mm. long; 

 calyx obovoid-oblong, 4 mm. high, its lobes bioadly ovate-rhomboid, densely gray-tomentose. 



Type collected in Dominica, W. C. Fishlock 13 (herb. New York Botanical Garden). 



Distribution: Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Martinique. 



2 Tapura cubensis (Poepp. & Endl.) Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 

 56. 1866. 



Chailletia cubensis Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 41. 1843. 



Shrub or small tree 1-6 m. high, with glabrous stems and foliage; petioles stout, 5-10 mm. 

 long; leaf-blades coriaceous, ligid, somewhat shining, 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. wide, lanceo- 

 late to oblong, elliptic, or broadly ovate, acute to obtuse, or subacuminate to an obtuse tip, 

 entire, moie or less levolute, acute to obtuse or rarely rounded at base, the midvein impressed 

 above, prominent beneath, the lateral veins and veinlets prominently reticulate; umbels 

 dense, about 10-flowered; flowers short-pedicelled to nearly sessile; calyx dark-brown, sparsely 

 pubescent, 2 mm. high, its lobes erect, ovate, obtuse; drupe ovoid, yellow. 



Type locality: Las Piedras. Cuba. 



Distribution: Cuba. 



Illustration: Poepp. 8c Endl. Nov. Gen. & Sp. pi. 246, f. .(. 



