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PsyCHOTRIA GUIANENSIS, (Aublet) (Palicourea Guianense, Aublet, Fl. 
Guian. t. 66) (?). Yungas, 1890 (579). Apparently the same 
as Aublet’s figure, but lacks flowers. 
PSYCHOTRIA es) FLAVIFOLIA, sp. n. Glabrous, the branch- 
lets stout, dark-brown, ribbed ; stipules nearly 5 mm. long and 
broad, len, blunt, thickened, rigid; petioles short, con- 
sisting of the narrowed base of the leaf, which is 1-2 dm. long, 
scarcely one-third as broad, oblong, equally short-acuminate at 
both ends, coriaceous and rigid, shining on both sides, strongly 
yellowish in drying, much paler below, the midrib and veins 
prominent both sides, the former 3-sulcate above; peduncles 
stout, about 1 dm. long, the panicle about as long and one- 
half as broad, compound, rather dense, the branches ascend- 
ing ; basal bracts subulate, acute, rigid, recurved, 4 mm. long; 
pedicels manifest, stout; calyx 3 mm. broad, the lobes a little 
shorter than the roadly hemispherical tube, 2” semi- 
circular; corolla externally puberulent, the tube 6 mm. long, 
slightly gibbous at the base and unequally dilated at de throat, 
the internal ring 2 mm. from the base, the lobes 3.5 mm. long, 
narrowly triangular-ovate, obtusish ; anthers 2. 5 mm. long by 
two-thirds as broad, oblong ; fruit not seen. 
Yungas, 1890 (346). 
RUDGEA Ж sp. Branchlets stout, sub-glabrous, flat- 
ed and bro oadly онданенед on Ше upper side; stipules 
blackish "nh whitish lacinez, the blackish portion broader 
cm. broad, ellipitical-ovate, very short-acuminate, obtusish, the 
base abruptly narrowed, very coriaceous, the margin strongly 
revolute, above dark and shining, with the midrib lightly sul- 
cate and its branches impressed, underneath light gray- green, 
finely tomentose, the ribs strong and prominent, 11 to 13 pairs 
with smaller ones irregularly intervening, in direction some- 
what irregular; peduncles strongly channelled, ferruginous- 
oose panicle, which is two-thirds pei as long, its branches 
at about 45°, the branchlets 1-3- A d, the bracts е 
апу; flowers sessile ; calyx-tube (blackish) proper about 1 m 
long, the throat constricted, the limb connate about one-half its 
length, the teeth broadly triangular, obtuse, barely 0.5 mm. 
long, yellowish-ciliate ; corolla-tube sparsely pubescent, 5 cm. 
long, the throat somewhat irregularly expanded, the lobes very 
nearly equal, lanceolate, obtusish; anther lanceolate, about 2 
mm. long; fruit not seen. 
Yungas, 1890 (367). 
