(444 ) 
an obras? eae petioles 0.5-1.5 dm. long, slender but rigid, 
5 1 
k 
mature) 3-4 mm. thick, 5 cm. long, cylindrical, loosely or densely 
flowered; flowers not yet expanded. 
‘*A shrub 15-20 ft. high, with hollow stem and branches, the 
oe greenish-yellow. Scarce in rich rocky ground near the 
river.” Coroico, August 20, 1894. (Vo. 2392.) 
Acalypha lucida sp. nov. 
r leaves minutely scurfy underneath, otherwise glabrous ; 
branches aes and rig Sie purple, coarsely sulcate and Ss stip- 
ules caduc 0.5-1 ong, linear, attenuate; petioles 2-4 cm. 
long, fender ‘lightly enna! on upper side, purple like the 
midrib; blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, angularly oblong, 
ovate, many inequilateral, the base Stunt, rather abruptly narrowed 
rather prominent both sides, the secondaries about 10 pairs, strongly 
ascending, apparen tly but not really connecting at the margin, the 
tertiaries meeting at their ends and by lateral branches about mid- 
way between the secondaries, very numerous, only 2-3 mm. apart; 
peduncles purple, stout, 2 cs mm. long, the (immature) spikes 0.4— 
1 dm. or more long, 3 mm. broad; flowers not yet expanded. 
(Nos. 2560 and 2562.) 
ALCHORNEA TRIPLINERVIA (Spr.) Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
15’: 909. (Axtidesma triplinervium Spr. Neue Entd. 2: 116.) 
‘* A tree 15-20 ft. high, growing in dry clay.” Coripata, March 
3, 1894. (Vos. 2077 and 2279.) 
ConcrvEIBA GUIANENSIS Aubl. Pl. Gui. 2: 924. fl. 3953. (Wo. 
2557. 
?CONCEVEIBA PUBESCENS Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 
28: 306. 1901. (Wo. 2375.) 
TRAGIA SELLOWIANA GLABRIFOLIA Britton; Rusby, Bull. Torrey 
Club 28: 307. 1901. ‘In dry clay and gravel at Coripata.” 
May 10, 1894. (Ve. 2782.) 
TRAGIA VOLUBILIS L. Sp. Pl. 980. (Vo. 290g.) The same col- 
lected by Afolton at La Paila. 
Tragia aurea sp. nov. 
ensely ferruginous with spreading hairs; stems slender, Po 
lightly striate; petioles about 5 mm. long, stout ; blades 2.5-5 cm 
