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papillose both sides, the midrib lightly channeled above, terete 
and very prominent underneath, like the 10-12 pairs of slender 
secondaries, which are strongly ascending and connected by the ter- 
tiaries; racemes about 1.5 dm. long, very slender, erect, strongly 
angled, red-scurfy, loosely- towed pedicels 2.5 mm. long, the 
ovate basal bract half as long; sepals scarcely 1 mm. long, broadly 
margin lighter; corolla-lobes nearly 2 mm. long, broadly oval or 
suborbicular ; stamens very short; flowers staminate only 
Vo. 2048.) 
Species very near Rusby 7278. 
Clavija tarapotana Spruce, MS. 
(Distributed as ‘+ C. danctfolia Desf.”) 
Shrub 1 to 2 m. high, slender, glabrous; leaves 30~45 cm. long, 
5-8 cm. wide, oblanceolate, acute, the margin obscurely sinuate, 
tapering into a very short, stout petiole; thick, light-green and dry- 
ing yellowish, the mi drib very stout, lightly channeled above; 
olla g mm. broad, of similar form; pistil 3 mm. long, the peltate 
white stigma nearly 2 mm. broad, "r2-lobed ; staminate flower not 
seen 
‘¢ Scarce in shade, in rich forest-mould, the flowers yellow.” 
(Wo. 2158.) The same as Rusby 1279. 
SAPOTACEAE 
Chrysophyllum ilicioides sp. nov. 
Branchlets numerous, slender, gray; petiqles o.5—1 cm. long, 
channeled; blades 4-8 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. broad, ovate, rounded 
at the base, very short-pointed and acutish at the apex, entire, glab- 
rous, dark-green, above shining with the midrib channeled, midrib 
very prominent underneath, the secondaries very numerous, slender, 
a straight; aging about 10-flowered; pedicels slender, 3-5 
m ong; calyx 1 mm. long and a little broader, hemispherical- 
cupulate, shallowly lobed, the lobes rounded; corolla sub-rotate, 5 
min. broad; ae subulate, about as long as the broadly ovate 
anther, inserted upon the base of the corolla-lobe; ovary broadly 
ovate, purple, fae to the base of the corolla- lobes ; style con- 
ical, short; stigma capitate, white; ovules basal. 
