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BRUNELLIA RHOIDES Rusby, azte, page 310. (Vo. zggz.) The 
same as no. 839. 
BURSERACEAE 
Bursera amplifolia sp. nov. 
Glabrous; branchlets ae eo pat ioles 3-5 cm. long, 
stout, sub-triangular in section; leaflets one or two pairs, when two, 
separated by about 3 cm.; ae nies 3 mm. long, very et 
he terminal about 1.5 cm long ; blad -12 ¢ 2 3- 
short-pointed and obtuse at the apex, entire, thickish and rigid, 
bright-green ; venation obscure above, somewhat prominent under- 
neath, the secondaries about 12-16 very unequal and irregular pairs, 
endee: somewhat crooked ; ag: axillary, on slender spreading 
reese about 2-3 cm. long, the flowering portion about 4 cm. 
ong, and nearly as broad, pans the bracts 1-3 mm. long, ovate, 
thickish, green; buds 2.5 mm. long and broad, ovate, acutish; 
calyx sree aa closely investing the corolla, the lobes sub- 
semicircular; petals 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. broad, ovate, obtuse; 
stamens 2 mm. long, the filament a little longer than the anther; 
disk large, flat, fleshy, white, irregularly many lobed; ovary ovoid, 
1 mm. long, the style short, the stigma lightly 3-lobed. 
‘¢ A tree, 15 feet in height, with yellow flowers, growing in sandy 
and gravelly soil, nearthe river.” Coroico, August 4, 1894. (Vo. 
2370.) 
MELIACEAE 
GuaREA OvALis Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 4: 205. 
Fruiting specimens of what appears to be this species are received 
under the number 2428 (perhaps distributed as xo. 282 
fruiting panicles are very lax and slender, 2 dm. or more long and 
about 7 cm. broad, on very stout peduncles 3-6 cm. long. The 
pedicels are about 5 mm. long, very stout, upwardly thickened. 
The fruit is fig-shaped, about 1 cm. broad, bright-brown, light-ver- 
rucose, The specimens are gray- or yellow-pubescent throughout, 
especially the veins underneath; the upper leaf-surfaces very finely 
puberulent. 
‘“A single tree found, about 20 ft. high, in forest-shade.” 
Coroico, September 12, 1894. 
Trichilia Harmsii sp. nov. 
labrous, or the lower leaf-surfaces minutely tuberculate, as 
though strigose with the hairs aborted; branchlets stout, verrucose 
with the conspicuous, vertically elongated lenticels; petioles about 
5 cm. long, stout, channeled, abruptly enlarged at the base; rachis 
