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base and abrupt short blunt point, deep green and minutely lepi- 
dote both sides, the scales dull, gray-green ; peduncles and branches 
of the inflorescence elongated (in fruit), subfiliform ; flowers not 
seen; fruit, as pressed, velie or a little broader than long, 
about 5 cm. across, glabr 
Between Guanai and Tioti, Apr.—June, 1892 (1378). 
COMBRETUM GLORIOSUM sp. n. 
Branchlets stout, light hd the internodes about 6 cm. long ; 
n oles 1-2 cm. long, lades 1—1.5 dm vene -10 cm . broad, 
ries; panicles sessile, of few spikes, the branches very stout, the 
densely golden-lepidote spikes secund, 1 dm. long, shortly pedun- 
cled, densely flowered; calyx-tube nearly 3 mm. long, 1 mm 
dew sharply 4-angled, sharply articulated with the limb, which 
-7 mm. long, the lower half cylindrical and narrower than 
the tube, the upper open-campanulate and lobed nearly half its 
length, the lobes triangular-ovate ; petals yellow, oval, two-thirds 
the length of the calyx-lobes; stamens 8, golden-yellow, the long- 
est 1.5 cm. long, the anthers purple ; fruit not seen. 
Between Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.-June, 1892 (1427). Near 
C. Lindbergii Eichl. 
Combretum—sp. Probably undescribed, and near C parviflorum, but 
in the absence of flowers a determination is not possible. Be- 
tween Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.—June, 1892 (1334) = Rusby’s 
2635, also without flowers. 
SPAR IUM GLABRUM Sp. n. 
A climbing shrub, glabrous except for the minute scales, the 
abruptobtusish point, entire, minutely lepidote, coriaceous, strongly 
3-nerved from the petiole, the venation inconspicuous ; flowers not 
seen ; fruiting cyme compound, very broad and open, the branches, 
pedicels and fruit strictly erect; fruit a little more than 2 cm. long, 
about 1 cm. broad, ovoid, the apex blunt, tipped with the reddish 
styles ME are about I mm. long, strongly but bluntly 6-8-costate, 
cinereo 
ae Guanai and Tipuani, Apr.—June, 1892 (1371). 
MYRTACEAE. 
Psidium pomiferum L, Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 672. Between Tipuani and 
Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1688) — 253. 
