(96) 
7-12 cm. long, 4-8 cm. broad, ovate, acuminate and acute, rounded 
at the base, thin, lightly scabrous above, soft-tomentose beneath, 
the secondaries 5 or 6 pairs, strongly upcurved at the ends, con- 
nected by the straightish tertiaries, the venation coarsely reticu- 
late, all strongly prominent beneath; racemes 4-8 cm. g, or 
longer in fruit, the peduncles 1.5—-2 cm. long, me loosely flowered; 
pedicels 8-10 mm long, linear-bracted at the base, subulate- 
bracteolate and glan dular at about the middle: calyx 5 mm. 
ag the 8 eer large; petals 5-6 mm. long, long-clawed, ene 
uit 2-2.5 cm. broad, very thin, the body oblong, 4 mm. long. 
cee. 1600 ft., Sens 23, IgOI” (Vo. oy No. 752 
from the same locality, Sept. 21, 1901, is the same, in flower. 
Its leaves are broader and less acuminate. 
Tetrapterys elliptica sp. nov. 
Glabrous, oe the fruit; branchlets ascending, terete, purple; 
petioles 12-15 mm. long, stout; blades 15-20 cm. lo 
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panicles they aay lo net the peduncle very short and 
all strongly and rather coarsely nerved, pubescent, the dorsal 
crest wing-like 
“Mapiri, 1600 ft., Sept. 17, 1901”? (No. 777). 
Banisteriopsis sublucida sp. nov. 
Lower Reena lightly pilose, sage tas puberulent, 
otherwise glabrous; branchlets short, stout, purple; petioles about 
mm. long, Seed. blades 7-10 cm. oo ~—4 cm. broad, oval, 
very short-pointed, thick, shining above, grayish beneath, the 5 or 
6 pairs of secondaries strongly ascending, strongly prominent 
beneath, the venation coarsely reticulate, the petiolar glands not 
apparent; panicles lateral, small, short-peduncled, the flowers 
racemed on the short nodose branches; pedicels slender, ie mm 
sepals 2-3 mm. long, oblong, yellowish; petals yellow, 6 mm. long, 
long-clawed, sub-rotund, fimbriate; samara eee cm. long, I cm. 
broad, the sides of the body cristate or sub-alat 
“A large spreading bush or small tree; ik, 4800 ft., Feb. 24, 
1902”’ (No. ro2). 
Resembles B. lucida. A very unusual type of Banisteriopsis in 
habit, in inflorescence and in its wing-like, lateral fruit-crests. 
