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PECKIA PSYCHOTRIAEFOLIA Sp. n. 
scurfy glands; petioles about 1 cm. long, stout, subcarinate like 
the midrib; blades 1.5—2.5 is long, 6-9 cm. broad, obovate with 
cuneate base, the apex very mitn. H contracted to a short broad 
blunt point, entire, membranaceous but rigid, dark-green, glabrous 
above, the 10-12 pairs of primaries NS very prominent, ab- 
ruptly arching upward to connect about 5 mm. from the margin ; 
racemes simple, mostly solitary, erect-spreading, I-1.5 dm. long, 
loosely flowered (or becoming loose) the rhachis angled, the subu- 
late purple deciduous bracts nearly as long as the pedicels, which 
are I or 2 mm. long, very stout, horizontal or slightly deflexed ; 
calyx- and corolla-lobes about 1.5 mm. long, oval, ay imbri- 
cated, the corolla greenish and of ruit thicker texture than the 
persistent white calyx; stamens inserted below the middle of the 
corolla-lobes, the elliptical anthers nearly as broad as long; fruit 
( black? ) depressed-globose, about 7 mm. broad, minutely tipped 
with the persistent style. 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1651 in flower) — 
Rusby's 1218 (in fruit). Species near P. nitida. 
EBENACEAE 
DIOSPYROS TETRAMERA Sp. n. 
Glabrous, the branchlets blackish, flexuous, the internodes 
about 2 cm. long ; petioles 3 mm. long, nearly as broad, margined ; 
blades 5—12 cm. long, 2—4 cm. broad, lance-oblong with coti to 
sub-rotund base, slightly acuminate but very obtuse apex, and 
crumpled revolute margin, coriaceous, rigid, pale green, midrib 
impressed above, prominent and sharp beneath, the veins elevated 
both sides, reticulate, the primary very numerous; the 4-merous 
flowers solitary in the axils or several on an apparently axillary 
branchlet, subsessile, the calyx subtended by about 4 broadly 
ovate whitish cartilaginous bracts; calyx campanulate, 3 mm 
broad, a little longer, very shallowly lobed, cartilaginous: corolla 
coriaceous, dark purple, in bud lanceolate and acute, in anthesis 
anulate tube 5 mm. longer than the calyx, the mouth 4 
mm. ees the strongly recurved libet one-half as long the tube, 
nearly semi-circular; anthers inear, slender, 2 mm. long, 
scarcely distinguishable from the blackish filaments whichare alittle 
mo e-half as long; pistil 7 mm. long, the ovary rudi- 
vieta We stout. Pistillate flowers not seen. 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1681). 
