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SABICEA CUNEATA Sp. n. 
ay-tomentose throughout except the strigose upper leaf- 
surfaces; branchlets elongated, stout, striate, purplish, the inter- 
6 br 
nodes 4-6 cm. long; stipules 7 or 8 mm. long, 5 mmi. broad, 
ovate, blunt, entire, bee Aude nd deg petioles 5— 
1.5 cm. long, margined ; .75-1.5 dm. long, 3-4.5 cm 
dark green and strigose, underneath softly gray-tomentose ; cymes 
axillary, trichotomous, on short very stout peduncles, mostly 15— 
20-flowered, about 2 cm. broad; bracts about 5 mm. long, linear 
and tapering, herbaceous, recurved, the pedicels 3-5 mm. long; 
calyx-tube (in flower) 2 mm. long, globose- "urceolate; the lobes 
5 mm. long, linear-tapering, herbaceous, recurve corolla pur- 
ple, pilose, 1 cm. long, the tube S I drabubut, the 
obes 4 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, Beo dien d capsule 
blackish, depressed-globose, 5 mm. i 
Between Guanai and Tipuani, Apr. ies se (1380). 
The species appears intermediate between one collected by 
Mathews (no. 1951), one by Linden (New Grenada no. 1492) and 
one by Pearce (Moro, Jan., 1866). 
Hamelia patens Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 74. M. 50. Espirito Santo, 1891 
(1222) = Rusby’s 2105. 
Bertiera Guiauensis Aubl. Pl. Guian. 1: 180. A. 69. Between Tipu- 
ani and Guanai, Dec., jeg (1712) = Rusby's 2118. 
Amaioua corymbosa H. B. K. Nov. Gen. 3: 419. pl. 294. Be- 
tween Tipuani and vut Dec., 1892 (1655). 
GUETTARDA ALBICAULIS Sp. n. 
Branches Verc terete, whitish, the flowering branchlets 
short, dli. rough with numerous leaf-scars; stipules brown and 
subscarious, 5 mm Ré Haee dvidés very acute, connate ; 
petioles about 2° mm. long, very stout, pubescent; blades 4-7 
cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, ovate, abruptly short-pointed, obtuse, 
the margin obscurely sinuate ; thick and coriaceous, dark-green, 
glabrous, with impresse midrib and 4 or 5 pairs of primaries 
above, softly pubescent, scrobiculate in the ie and with sharply 
prominent veins underneath; terminal internode of the flowering 
branchlet purple, striate, pilose, clavate, the peduncles axillary in 
its triangular-ovate acute bracts, 5-8 mm. long; flowers sessile, 
5-8; calyx 20r 3 mm. long, 2 mm. long at the summit, 
lobed nearly to the middle, the teeth white-pilose, ovate, acutish ; 
corolla pilose, white (?), the tube 8 n = ng, pin slenderly in- 
fundibular, the lobes 3 mm. long, ovate, rved; stamens equal- 
ling the tube; style nearly equalling (rie pior riri the flat 
