(446) 
(Rhamnus micranthus L. Syst. ed. 10. 937.) ‘*A shrub 15 
to 20 ft. nighy , in dry gravelly soil, the flowers green, the fruit 
black; scarce.” Coripata, February 24,1894. (Vos. 2065 and 
2611.) 
Morus asa L. Sp. Pl. 986. (Specimen without number.) The 
same as feller 448 from Texas. 
Ficus oblanceolata sp. nov. 
Glabrous; branchlets stout but weak, rough with leaf-scars which 
are about 2 mm. broad; petioles o.5-1.5 cm. long, dark-brown, 
very stout; blades 0.5-1 dm. long, 2.5-4 cm. broad, oblanceolate 
to obovate, obtuse at the base, abruptly very short-pointed and blunt 
plane 
nearly right-angles with the midrib, connecting about 2 mm. from 
the margin; fruit sessile or very short-peduncled, aaa, about 
5 mm. broad, yellowish or brownish-green with dar ts. 
‘A tree 30 ft. or more high, scarce in sandy and ae soil, 
near the river.” Coroico, August 2, 1894. (Vo. 2369.) Pearce 
collected what is probably the same species 
Cecropia elongata sp. nov. 
Peduncles lightly, upper leaf-surfaces coarsely, scabrous; petioles 
obscurely short-pointed at the summit,the middle lobe 3 dm.in length 
of midrib, 7.5 cm. broad, the outermost 1.5 dm. long, 5 cm. broad, 
the finely many-nerved midrib and about 40 ‘pairs (on terminal 
nected by the slender cama straight tertiaries ; cages stout, 
pilose with few stiff white hairs; spikes cylindrical, 1.5-2.5 dm. 
long, about 7 mm. thick, occasionally branched, drying blackish. 
(Wo. 2260. 
URTICA MAGELLANICA Juss.; Poir. Encyc. Suppl. 4: 223. 1833. 
(Vo. 7833.) 
PILEA HYALINA Fenzl, Denks. Akad. Wien 1: 250. 1850. Cori- 
pata, April rr, 1894. (Vo. 2726. 
Pirga ANoMALA Wedd. Ann. Sci. Nat. II]. 18: 217. 1852. 
‘+ Grows in wet mould, the flowers white.” Unduavi, September, 
1894. (Vo. 2490.) The same as Rusby 1478 and rg8o. 
Pirea roTunpDatTa Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 158. (Vo. 7796.) 
The same as Rusby 1483. Many collections of this, in both 
eastern and western tropical America, have been referred to P. 
dauctodora Wedd. 
