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densely bearded; stamens about half as long as the corolla-lobes, 
exclusive of their appendages. 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1694). 
ILICINEAE. 
ILEX AMPLIFOLIA Sp. n. 
Glabrous; branches stout, much wrinkled in drying, light 
gray-brown; petioles very broad and stout, I-1.5 cm. long; blades 
.75-1.5 dm. long, 4-8 cm. broad, oval-elliptical or the base slightly 
produced, the margin obsoletely serrate, and slightly revolute, cori- 
aceous and very thick, dark-green or the older pale; on the upper 
surface midrib broad, slightly prominent, longitudinally wrinkled, 
veins inconspicuous; underneath the very stout midrib and 10-12 
non-opposite primaries very prominent, the latter forked and an- 
astomosing near the margin; bracts light brown, 3-4 mm. long, 
broadly ovate, acuminate and acute, sheathing the base of the pe- 
duncle, the bractlets similar but smaller; peduncles proceeding 
irregularly from the upper internodes, about 2 cm. long, slender, 
blackish, bearing 3-5 umbels on secondary peduncles less than 
half as long; ; umbels about 5—10-flowered, tigen ces PR compound, 
the pedicels 3-4 mm. long ; buds globose, about 3 mm. in diam- 
eter, rather loosely seated in the calyx, which is rdg and 
very — lobed, the lobes broad and Ts petals 3-3.5 
mm. long and broad, white, thickish; fruit not s 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, De. 1892 prium 
Very near /. crassifolia and perhaps the same as Lechler's no. 
2624. 
CELASTRINEAE. 
MAYTENUS FLAGELLATA Sp. n. 
Glabrous, much branched, the branches and branchlets elonga- 
ted and very slender, the former gray-brown, the latter green and 
sharply angled or narrowly winged, very leafy, the — about 
half the length of their leaves; leaves subsessile, 1.5-3 cm. long, 
2-4 mm. broad, pees ar with tapering base and 
acutish or abruptly ted apex, faintly serrate with brownish 
cartilaginous teeth, ee and rigid, pale green, the midrib and 
about 6 pairs of ascending primaries rather prominent on both 
sides ; flowers sessile, mostly geminate, greenish-yellow with pur- 
ple center, 4 mm. in diameter; fruit globose-pyriform, 7-8 mm. 
long, light brown, 2-carpelled 
Turedon, 1891 (1128). 
