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TROPICAL AMERICAN RUBIACEA.—VI.* 
y H. F. Wernuam, D.Sc., F.L.S. 
Toten of Botany, British ae ) 
(Continued from Journ. Bot. 1914, p. 316.) 
Note on TouRNEFORTIOPSIS. 
S genus was established by Rusby in his ‘“ Enumeration ” 
of Bolivian plants, collected by Bang (Part i iv. 1907, p. 369). The 
type of the genus, described teint is T. reticulata ; od save for 
the opposite leaves and tigre ere miens stipules this plant 
bears a near resemblance to a Tournefortia; I have found a 
specimen placed meee the unnamed sone of tho! last. nana 
genus in more than one herbarium. 
In this en for 1913 0. 218) I gi described a second 
species, 7’. minor. Now, in the course of a recent examination of 
covered a very distinct third species of the Rubiaceous genus in 
question, whhich I now proceed to — ibe :— 
Tournefortiopsis major Wernham. Ramulis subcompresso- 
pinta sublanato-hirsutis hoes goes minus deciduo; folzs 
tenuiter coriaceis late ovatis + 22cm. x 11 em., brevi ter leni- 
terque acuminatis, basi subrofundatis petiolo 5-10 om. longo 
compresso sparsiter hic inde basin versus densius atte 
hispidulo-villosis inter venis min anato- -pubescentibus, ven 
secundariis utrinque 12-14 ; stipulie ‘ocidaie Floribus i ngueerts 
modo secunde in cymis fareatis a aribus dispositis, —— 
ngo ut brachi alate 5 cm. longa indumento 
3~4 em. lon rac a+ 
densiusculo ferrugineo hispi dlo-pusscont en: calyce parvo 
irregulariter dentato in fructu vix accrescente. Bacca subangulata 
appresse feaaess strigosa 5-loculari ; 
The locality is, unfortunately, doubifal the specimen was col- 
lected in Peru or Brazil by Poeppig, n 1300! Hb. Mus. Brit. 
e species is readily distinguishable from the other two by 
the size and shape of the leaves and by the long porte 
I appen be 
a key to the three species now to be recognized :— 
Petioles as much as 9 cm. or more. Leaves broadly 
ovate, over 10 cm. wide major 
heey nes rarely as mu tel as 3 cm, Leaves oblong- 
ceolate, not 5 cm. wide. 
Oidye Ri b sub-entire, inconspicuous in n frui minor 
a oes eae ctly lobed, conspicuous i in ‘fruit, 
often nearly as long as the berry . . reticulata 
(To be continued.) 
ropose to change the oo of my papers named hitherto ‘‘ New 
‘caine from Tropical America” to the one at the head of this sixth — 
ment. My motive for this change is to cover cases where reference is 
of interest in species already described, or where more general m to 
pore nia this family is dealt with; a course which I con secnaginte 5 in the near 
