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later would become coherent at the base, terminating in the 

 conical-acuminate style. Ovule one, erect from the base. 



Santa Catalina, Venezuela, May, 1896. (Rusby and, Squires, 

 No. 158.) 



Duguetia rostrata. 



Glabrate, the branchlets purple, terete, the leaves crowded. 

 Petioles very short, stout, blackish, when young puberulent. 

 Blades i to 2 dm. long, 4 to 6 cm. broad, oblong-oblanceolate 

 with obtuse or acutish base and abruptly contracted at the 

 summit into a narrow, attenuate acumination sometimes 3 cm. 

 long; entire, thin, the midrib impressed above, prominent 

 beneath^ like the slender, coarsely reticulate venation. Prin- 

 cipal secondaries about 12 on a side, nearly at right angles with 

 the midrib, lightly falcate and interarching near the margin. 

 Flower solitary, sub-terminal, shortly and stoutly peduncled, 

 2.5 cm. long. Sepals tomentose, 7 or 8 mm. long, much broader, 

 ovate, obtuse, thickish, erect. Petals purple, sub-equal. Sta- 

 mens and pistils not seen. Fruit sub-globose, the carpels sessile 

 and coherent below the middle. 



Santa Catalina, Venezuela, May, 1896. 



(Rusby & Squires, No. 157.) 

 Trigynaeia anastomosans. 



Glabrate, the branchlets stout, flexuous, terete, leafy. Peti- 

 oles very short and stout, margined, minutely scurfy, the blades 

 I to 2.5 dm. long, 3 to 7 cm. broad, oblong or oblanceolate with 

 acute base and the summit abruptly produced into an oblique 

 obtuse point about 2 cm. long; entire, bright-green, thin, the 

 slender, coarsely reticulate venation slightly prominent above, 

 sharply so underneath, the principal secondaries about 12 on 

 each side, strongly anastomosing by loops a short distance from 

 the margin, wnich is thinly revolute. Flowers solitary, on 

 peduncles 4 or 5 cm. long, terete, and thickened upward. Sepals 

 3, erect or incurved, 6 mm. long, and broader, acute, fleshy. 

 Petals 6, a little shorter than the sepals, similar to the sepals, 

 sub-equal, erect, the margin ciliate. Perigone completely de- 

 ciduous. Anthers very numerous, massed but distinct, i mm. 

 long, the filament dilated upward, the summit as wide as the 

 andier, and about as long as the anther, which is truncate. 

 Pistils 4 mm. long, the ovary turgid, falcate, lanceolate, the 

 stigma terminal, purple, short. Ovules several, in one series. 



Sacupana, Venezuela, April 1896 (Rusby and Squires, No. 

 I55-) 



Oxandra ovata. 



(Fruiting specimen.) 



Glabrous, the branches stout, the branchlets divaricate or 

 widely spreading. Leaves sub-sessile, 5 to 10 cm. long, 2.5 



