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SAMYDACEAE 
Casearia obtusifolia sp. nov. 
Softly puberulent throughout, except the upper leaf-surfaces other 
than the midrib; branchlets elongated, slender, flexuous, the inter- 
nodes about 1 cm. long; stipules 2 mm. long, atin from the 
base, oF petioles 5 mm. long, very s ; blades 6-8 cm. 
long, 3-4 cm. broad, oval, nearly elliptical, finely serrate, the teeth 
short and ae) obtuse or mucronate, thick, dark-green, somewhat 
shining above, with the finely reticulate ree impressed, strongly 
rominent underneath, the secondaries about 8 pairs; fascicles not 
very densely flowered; pedicels 1-2 mm. long, thick; sepals 5 mm. 
1 . bro 
ng, 3mm ad, oval or obovate, rounded at the summit, puberu- 
lent without; stamens 8, 4 mm. long, the ae stout, the 
anthers ovate, acute, bright- yellow: staminodia 3 mm. long, fleshy 
or dilated, upwardly thickened, pilose and peniciilate: adnate to the 
filaments for half the length; ovary broadly ovate, pilose, 3 mm. 
long; style 1.5 mm. long, the stigma capitate. 
«« A tree about 20 ft. high, with yellow flowers. But one found, 
in dry gravel and clay in forest.” Coroico, September 8, 1894. 
(No. 2421.) 
ABATIA BOLIVIANA (Mandon & Weddell) Britton, Bull. Torrey 
Club 17: 214. 1890. (Vo. 7777.) The same as mo. 161}. 
LOASACEAE 
SCLEROTHRYX FASCICULATA Presl, Symb. Bot. 2: 3. Al. 53; fide 
Urban 
PASSIFLORACEAE 
PASSIFLORA FOETIDA HIRSUTA Masters; Mart. Fl. Bras. 131: 583. 
PAsSIFLORA NEPHRODES Masters, Bull. Torrey Club 17: 282. 
1890. (Specimen without number.) The same as Rusby go¢. 
PassIFLORA RUBRA L. Sp. Pl. 956. (Vo. 2876.) 
PassiFLORA suBEROSA L. Sp. Pl. 958. (Specimen without 
number.) 
PASSIFLORA QUADRANGULARIS L. Syst. ed. 10. 1248. ‘¢ Climbs 
over hedges in rich soil; flowers blue. The fruit is as large as 
a child’s head and is edible, but has not a nice taste.” Coripata, 
May 16, 1894. (Wo. 2798.) 
PASSIFLORA TRICUSPIS Mart. Flor. Bras. 13': 587. (No number.) 
The same as Rusby 296. . 
PASSIFLORA TRISULCA Masters, Bot. Jahrb. 13: 218. 1887. 
