( 106 ) 
2-3 cm. long; pedicels in fruit very stout, 6-8 mm. long; fruiting 
calyx 12 mm. broad; fruit oval, about 2.5 cm. long, inclusive 
of ite styles, 12-18 mm. broad, the 78 carpels oe in 
more or less spreading, beaklike styles which are 8 mm 
stigmas large, red, abruptly inflexed. 
“Five inches i diameter and 20 ft. high; near Santa Barbara, 
6500 ft., Aug. 30, 1902” (Wo. 1553). 
The same as Spruce’s No. 4463. 
FRANKENIACEAE 
Frankenia —— nov. 
h branched shrub, the branches stout, densely 
roa 
corolla tube, 7 aveek half spreading, thin, white, ais with 
lacerate-toot ma stamens shorter than the petals 
filaments ave ere ree toward the base, the anthers about I 
mm. long, broadly oval; style about equalling the stamens, stout, 
the stigmas linear, tapering, small. 
“Mollendo, Aug. 5, 1901” (No. 2531). 
pn 
a 
no 
VIOLACEAE 
Rinorea gracilis sp. nov. 
Glabrous, excepting the sparsely ferruginous tomentellate ends 
of the branchlets, stipules and young petioles; branches much and 
widely branched, slender, whitish, very leafy; stipules 1.5 mm. 
long, ovate, acuminate; petioles 3-5 mm. long, rather eae 
1 
ee with one another; capsule solitary, 15-18 m 
on a stout peduncle 6 mm. long, brown, ee ovoid, eee 
ene 
“A slender bush, 7 ft. high; San Buena Ventura, 1500 ft., 
Nov. 24, 1901”’ (No. 612). 
The same collected by Spruce at Tarapota. 
Rinorea sp. (?) 
Branchlets whitish, the younger portions sparsely puberulent; 
petioles 8-15 mm. long, slender; blades 10-20 cm. long, 3-9 cm. 
broad, obovate, cuneate, abruptly contracted into an acute 
