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Triumfetta grandiflora Vahl, Ecl. 2: 34.  Mapiri, July-Aug., 
1892 (1499). : 
Heliocarpus Americanus L. Sp. Pl. 448. Between Guanai and 
Tipuani, Apr—June, 1892 (1455) = Rusby's 1492 and 1493. 
Heliocarpus Popayannensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 5: 341. Mapiri, 
July-Aug., 1892 (1491). 
LUEHEA SPLENDENS sp. n. 
Branches and branchlets very stout, the latter 3 mm. or morein 
diameter, ferruginous-tomentellate; stipules 2 cm. long, 8 mm. 
broad, inequilaterally ovate from the base, obtusish, coriaceous, 
velvety, many- us or rp ; petioles very stout, about 2 cm. 
long; blades 1-3 dm g, 5-15 cm. broad, ovate to obovate 
with inequilateral Saas pi short-acuminate and acute apex, 
and sharply serrate-dentate margin, the sinuses rounded; coria- 
ceous, mages dark Il and very minutely cinereous, the ' midrib 
and IO pairs of primaries slightly prominent, the former 
slightly "channelled, underneath densely ferruginous- -tomentellate, 
long, 5 mm. broad, terete or subquadrilateral; bracteoles 5 (divid- 
ing a ae older ?), valvate, two-thirds the length of the sepals and 
as long as the petals, acute, coriaceous, densely ferruginous- 
tomentose without and pinkish-velvety within ; ; sepals 5, dud 
vate, 6 cm. long, lanceolate, coriaceous, densely ferrugino 
tomentose without, within crimson, 7—9-nerved, Vlabrods ient 
and margins, which are silky-pilose toward the 
base; petals imbricate, crimson, membranaceous, strongly nerved, 
obovate, short-acuminate and very acute, entire, the base some- 
what narrowed, each bearing about 5 partly coherent, thick glands’ 
nearly 5 mm. in length, at the base on the inner side; stamens | 
very numerous, equalling the sepals, the outer somewhat shorter 
and anantherous, collected in 5 phalanges,white-villous or pubescent 
at the base; ovary oblong-ovoid, 5-angled, 2 cm. long, ferruginous ; 
style very stout, equalling the sepals, thickened at the apex ; stigma 
capitate, 8 mm. broad; fruit oblong, inequilateral and slightly fal- 
cate, strongly 5-lobed (dehiscence P), apparently not mature ; seeds 
strongly imbricate, the oblong apical wing 4 or 5 times as long as 
the angular body. 
Between Guanai and Tipuani, April-June, 1892 (1339). 
Collected also by Pearce below Coroico. Fendler’s no. 1915, 
from Trinidad, lacks the cordate leaf-base and has a shorter 
fruit. 
