(333) 
densely oe stipules caducous, nearl m. 
long, ovate, aes e, concave, rigid and thick, apne carinate; 
petioles o. 5-1 - long, very stout ; blades 7-10 cm. long, 3- 
cm. broad, ae Cea ister: rounded at the ne aie or acut- 
ish at the apex, serrate with small acute teeth, strongly 3-ribbed, 
the other secondaries 4 on one side, 3 on the other, connected b 
the tertiaries; thick and rigid, minutely scabrous sind the venation 
obscure above, the latter prominent underneath; panicles terminal, 
broad (2 dm.), the branchlets and pedicels erect; bracts caducous, 
1.5 cm. long, oval or obovate; pedicels at length 1-1.5 or even 2 
cm. long, twice as stout as their ive strongly bluntly quad- 
rangular; buds globose-ovoid, 1 cm. or es eal bluntly 
10-costate; involucral bracts 9, 2-2.5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, 
lanceolate, narrowed at the base, acute, thick, “val vate- ace 
and internally carinate in the bud; sepals 53, valvate, 3-3.5 cm. 
long, 1.5 cm. broad, ovate, obtusish, strongly 3- eed. within 
purple and nearly glabrous: petals 5, 4 cm. ae very broadly 
obovate, shortly and stou tly unguiculate, oa one pales and pubes- 
cent at the base, strongly “veined; stamens to 2 . long, white- 
pilose, in 5 phalanges, each phalange ae enemall, at its 
base, a scale 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad at the base, divided two- 
thirds of the way into filiform pilose divisions similar to the fila- 
2-3 mm. thick, slightly larger and strongly angled above, pilose at 
the base; stigma 5 mm. broad, thick and fleshy, strongly umbilicate 
at the base, s- -lobed, the lobes irregularly crumpled and toothed; 
fruit unknow 
‘¢ A stout tree 40 ft. high, with white flowers, abundant in gravel 
clay.” Coripata, Yungas, June 24, 1894. (Wo. 2295.) 
Probably identical with Burchell 4778. 
MALPIGHIACEAE 
Bunchosia pilocarpa sp. nov. 
ranches stout, terete, glabrous, dilated at the nodes; leaves 
glabrous, the petioles about 1 cm. long, stout, margined, the blades 
1-2 dm. long, 4-8 cm. broad, oval to obovate, the base blunt, the 
loose, the pedicels stout, o.5-1 cm. long, articulated and strongly 
glandular-tuberculate a little below the middle; calyx 7 mm. broad, 
broadly cup-shaped, the glands large, obovate, of the same color as 
the calyx, recurved-spreading at the apex; fruit light-gray, densely 
