(407 ) 
‘(A tree 20 to 30 ft. high, the flowers green.” In the forest, 
near the River Tamampaya, Coripata, Yungas. April 26, 1894. 
(No. 2257.) 
Sideroxylon Bangii sp. nov. 
Branchlets numerous or crowded, short, stout, up-curved, lightly 
ferruginous toward the summit, marked by broad, saucer-shaped 
at ie apex, entire, eae slightly shining above, with the 
aries, is very prominent; fascicles 1- to about 7-flowered; bracts 
very short; pedicels 0.5—1 cm. long, stout, erect, thickened upward ; 
calyx cupulate, 2 mm. long by 3 mm. broad, lobed nearly mali way, 
the lobes semicircular or broader, thick and rigid; flowers not seen 
young fruit narrowly ovoid, densely and coarsely ferruginous- pilose, 
narrowing into a short, black, glabrous beak. (Vo. 7953.) 
STYRACEAE 
Symp.Locos Matuewsu A. DC, Prodr. 8: 250. (Wo. 2756.) The 
same as Ausby 2 
Symp.Locos coLoraTa Brand. ‘‘A tree 20 ft. high, growing in rich 
mould, in forest.” Near Coroico, July 10, 1894. (Vo. 2332.) 
This is the same as a specimen collected by Pearce, the two to- 
gether being announced as the type. 
Symplocos flavescens sp. nov. 
Branchlets short and stout, shortly ferruginous-tomentose;_peti- 
oles 0.5-1 cm. long, very stout and broad; blades 4~8 cm. long,2.5— 
5 cm. broad, oval, lightly cordate at the ‘base, very shortly pointed 
and obtusish at the apex, finely serrate, the teeth short and broad, 
and nearly glabrous with the venation lightly impressed, underneath 
venation very prominent; pais I-3 cm. long and broad, about 
6-10-flowered, very shortly and stoutly peduncled, the flowers ses- 
sile, mostly in threes at the ends of branchlets; calyx tomentose, 
especially above, the tube ovoid, contracted at the mouth, 8 mm. long, 
the lobes appressed or inflexed, 2 mm. long, broadly triangular-ovate, 
ae corolla pile celine coriaceous, deeply 7-parted, the lobes 
long, n z mm. broad, lance-ovate, obtuse, pubescent 
within ; prey ges at the summit of the short tube, in two 
series, the upper anantherous in my specimens, filaments subulate, 
