253 
‚cartilaginous, drying blackish, above very minutely strigose, 
thin but somewhat rigid, the primary veins 6—7 pairs; cymes ses- 
sile or peduncled, solitary or geminate, few-flowered, reflexed, the 
pedicels 1-2 mm. long, in fruit becoming 2 cm. long, fleshy, thick- 
ened upward; calyx black, 4 mm. broad, the tube turbinate, 2 
mm. long, fleshy, the limb 5-lobed, the lobes short and rounded; 
disk in the staminate flowers closed over the stamens, the flat sur- 
face centrally perforated, the stamens numerous, imbricated in 
about 4 series, broadly dilated, the anther sub-sessile, pistil none; 
pistillate flowers very much smaller, central in the cymule; fruit 
black, fleshy, globose-pyriform, 1.5 cm. broad (as pressed and 
dried) at maturity. 
Songo, Nov. 1890 (844), in flower and Mapiri, July-Aug. 
1892 (1523) in fruit — Fendler's 2358 (second collection) from 
Tovar, Venezuela. 
LAURINEAE.* 
Nectandra globosa (Aubl.) Mez, Laur. Am. 415. (Laurus globosa 
Aubl. Pl. Gui. 1: 364.) Vungas, 1890 (488 and 688). 
Persea scoparia Mez, Arb. Bot. Gart. Breslau, 115. Yungas, 1890 
(501). | : 
Persea coerulea (R. & P.) Mez, Jahrb. k. Bot. Gart. 5: 171. Vun: 
gas, 1890 (300.) Songo, Nov. 1890 (833). 
LORANTHACEAE. 
Loranthus concinnus Mart. in Schult. Syst. 7: 170. (Siruthanthus 
|. €encinuus Mart. Flora, 1830: 1, 104.) Yungas, 1890 (213). 
Loranthus eugenioides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 3: 435. Vic. La Paz, 
10,000 ft., 1889 (6). | 
Loranthus verticiliatus R. & P. Fl. Per. 3: 47. Vic. La Paz, 1889 
(139) — Mandon’s 1469 and Pearce's from Orubamba, Jan. 
1867. ! 
Loranthus punctatus R. & P. Fl. Per. 4: 47. t. 277. f. a. Yungas, 
1890 (705). | : 
LORANTHUS FLEXILIS sp. n. 
Glabrous, somewhat glaucous, pale, the branches much elong- 
ated, slender, variously curved, finely many-striate, scarcely 
broader at the nodes ; petioles broad, about 1 cm. long, the blades, 
in flowering stage 2-3 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, in fruiting stage 
3-5 cm. long, 2-3. cm. broad, oval-elliptical to obovate, base 
Wed LU E stig 
* Kindly determined by Dr. Carl Mez. 
