( 440 ) 
panicles axillary and terminal, loose, 1-1.5 d long, including 
the strong peduncles, two thirds as broad, the a and branches 
flexuous, the flowers densely clustered upon the branchlets, the 
lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous bracts 5 mm. or less long. Only 
staminate flowers seen, the plant apparently dioecious. Perianth 
puberulent, especially the tube, which is 1 mm. long, turbinate; 
lobes 2 mm. one? nearly as broad, oval, rounded at the apex, cori- 
aceous; filaments puberulent, nearly 1 mm. long, uniform or those 
of the third series slightly narrower ; anthers nearly 1 mm. long, 
the st triangular-ovoid, rounded at the summit, twice as broad 
or more than the filament, the innermost lance- oblong, scarcely 
broader than the filament; glands half the length of the filament, 
broader than long, thick an d fleshy, sessile, each broadly grooved 
pistil 2 mm. long, the very small ovary white- pape the style thick, 
the blackish ae 3-lobed, twice or thrice as broad as the style. 
«* A stout tree, 20 to 30 ft. high, with ae flowers, growing 
in wet mould; scarce.” Coripata, April 24, 1894. (Vo. 2774.) 
NEcTRANDA LAEVIS Mez, /. c. 451. (Specimen without number, 
probably distributed as part of 7646.) 
NECTANDRA BERCHEMIFOLIA Meissn.; DC. Prodr. 15!': 154. 
(Nos. 2558 and 2902.) 
NECTANDRA CITRIFOLIA Mez & Rusby, Mem. Torrey Club 6: 
115, var.? ‘+A tree 40-50 ft. high, in forest.” Coripata, April 
18, 1894. (Vo. 2233.) 
NEcTANDRA LAuREL Klotzsch; Nees, Linnaea 21: 505. 1848. 
(Vo. 2187.) The same as J/atthews, collected in Peru. 
?NecTANDRA Warminci Meissn.; Warm. Vid. Medd. 1870: 
141. (Vo. 2224.) The presence of this species so far from the 
type locality is surprising, but it appears to agree with Warm- 
ing’s zo. 778. 
LORANTHACEAE 
a cranes oblongifolius sp. nov 
rous except the minutely paberulent flowers; branches 
seen rigid, terete, dark-brown; leaves tapering into a short 
petiole-like base, 0.7-1.5 dm. long, 2-8 cm. broad, oblong or oval, 
varying to ovate or obovate, abruptly narrowed at the base, rounded 
at the summit, the venation, including the midrib, obscure on both 
m. long, 
the lower half 2 mm., the upper mm. broad, the oblong lobes 
erect; anthers about | 7 mm, long, linear-oblong, the upper set 
