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stamens 10, shorter than the petals, the alternate ones longer, the 
filaments flattened, pilose; ovary broad, 5-lobed; style stout, 
conical-cylindraceous; fruiting calyx 1.5-2 cm. broad; fruit 1 
cm. long, spheroidal, light-brown, coarsely many-striate. 
Between Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.-June, 1892 (1407). 
Fleisteria—species probably undescribed, but farther comparison 
is required. Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1677). 
Schoepfia obliquifolia 'Turcz. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 31: Part 1, 
(1858) 249. Guanai-Tipuani, Apr.-June, 1892 (1409). 
DENDROBANGIA gen. nov. 
Flowers peceni calyx 5-parted, the segments coherent at the 
base, imbricated, unequal, the outer larger; petals 5, coriaceous, 
valvate, the apices inflexed and bearing bearded appendages, which 
in the bud are entangled with the anthers, in anthesis strongly 
recurved; stamens 5 and alternate, or 10, the filaments naked, di- 
lated at the base, adnate to the corolla-tube, the anthers short, 
2-celled, cells connected only at the point of attachment to the fila- 
ment, not appendaged; disk none or inconspicuous; ovary com- 
pressed, inequilateral, 1- or (mostly) 2-ovuled, the ovules pendulous ; 
stigma minute, nearly sessile, situated unilaterally; fruit not seen. 
A tree, with alternate exstipulate coriaceous leaves, and 
nodal and intranodal inflorescence, the flowers sessile and crowded 
at the ends of the short branchlets of the small clustered panicles ; 
bracts and bracteoles present 
Although in its calyx-characters this genus is related to V2//a- 
resia, its corolla is in all its general features like that of Poragueiba 
, or Emmotum. 
I am indebted to Mr. Oliver for having kindly pointed out the 
affinities of the plant. 
DENDROBANGIA BOLIVIANA sp. n. 
Branchlets stoutish, terete, glabrate, the internodes I-1.5 cm. 
long ; Eisdem .5-1 cm. long, very stout; blades .75—1.5 dm. long, 
4—5 cm. broad, obovate, the base obtuse, the apex abruptly short- 
pointed; acutish ; entire, rigid, dark green, glabrous, venation in- 
conspicuous, the strongly falcate-ascending, 
somewhat crooked ; panicles 2 or 3 cm. lon ng, loose, granular-scurfy, 
the bracts ovate, 2 mm. long, thick and rigid, gray, the bracteoles 
similar, closely appressed to the calyx; calyx thick and coriaceous, 
the sepals lightly imbricated, nearly 2 mm. long, ovate, the mar- 
gins lighter colored; corolla dark purple, 3 mm. long, broadly 
campanulate, lobed two-thirds of the way to the base, the ovate 
acute lobes strongly recurved, the appendages oblanceolate, 
