(98) 
Dicella Conwayi sp. nov. 
Glabrous, in fruiting ae petioles about 12 mm. long, weak 
and mostly twisted; blades 4-8 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, oval, 
abruptly contracted into the petiole, shining above, drying brown 
underneath, the secondari ~6 pairs, strongly ascending, the 
peduncled, loose; bracts small, ovate, mostly twisted; pedicels in 
fruit 6-12 mm Tong, thickened toward the summit; calyx strigose 
at the base, the glands 8, oblong, the upper portion free, 2-3 mm. 
long; sepals short- Tae oblong or slightly oblanceolate, rounded 
at the summit, the smallest 12-15 mm. long and 5-6 mm. broad, 
the largest 3-4 cm. long, 15-20 mm. broad, the venation strong 
and prominent on both sides; fruit brown, reticulate, depressed- 
globose, 12 mm. broad, 5-ribbed, the ribs very unequal in promi- 
nence, tipped by the small, stout, purple, recurved styles, the wall 
thick and woody. 
‘*A slender bush; Charopampa, 1600 ft., Sept. 9, 1901” (Wo. 766). 
RUTACEAE 
Esenbeckia lucida sp. nov. 
Glabrous; branchlets stout, white, leafy; petioles 8-12 mm. long, 
stout; blades 7-12 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, ovate or oval, very 
shortly acuminate at both ends, obtuse, thickish, pale and slightly 
shining, the slender, crooked venation lightly prominent above, 
; cate minutel 
5-toothed, in fruit somewhat enlarged and irregularly 5-lobed; 
fruit 5-6 mm. high, about twice as fan strongly s-lobed, black, 
densely bad ene papillose 
“A bush, 10 ft. high; Rio ‘San Juan, 3500 ft., Apr. 5, 1902” 
(No. 252). 
Cusparia Leas a] nov. 
Glabrous; branches slender, whitish, leafy at the ends, ie 
leaves ey eee I- i liolate: petioles te mm. long, 
slender; blades 10-20 cm. long, 2.5—4 oblanceolate, 
lightly Tetuse of acute, thin, ae ae lightly ea above, 
the venation otherwise ‘lightly prominent on both sides, the slender 
secondaries numerous; inflorescence irregularly panicled, the 
at eh loose, branching from the base, the branches long- 
pedu ; flowers not seen; fruiting carpels ‘solitary, sessile, the 
ere — of 3-5 others at the base; calyx very short, 
