20 New Species of South American Plants 



to 4.5 cm. broad, ovate with the base produced into a very short 

 petiole, and an abruptly acuminate apd obtusish summit, en- 

 tire, thick, slightly lustrous above, the slender venation incon- 

 spicuous on both surfaces, the secondaries about ip on each 

 side, quickly dividing and losing themselves in a loose reticula- 

 tion. Fruits sessile on the paniculate branches, 10 to 14 mm. 

 long, nearly ellipsoidal, black, smooth. 



"Lower Rio Cocos, 2500 feet alt., March 25, 1902" (R. S. 

 Williams, Bolivia, No. 217). 



Nectandra atnplifolia. 



Inflorescence grayish-downy, the hairs extremely minute. 

 Branchlets flexuous, rather slender, coarsely angled, purplish. 

 Petioles 10 to 15 mm. long, purple, very stout, shallowly chan- 

 nelled, the groove extending into the midrib. Blades 12 to 25 

 cm. long, 5 to 10 cm. broad, oval or ovate with very abruptly 

 and shortly produced acute base and summit, thickish, yellow- 

 ish-green, the venation impressed above, sharply prominent 

 beneath, the secondaries about 10 on a side, spreading and 

 lightly curved, the ends looped together at some distance from 

 the margin, connected by few very slender crooked tertiaries. 

 Panicles in the upper axils, and terminal, 7 to 10 cm. long, in- 

 cluding the peduncle, which is a little more than half the length, 

 slender and strongly nerved or angled, the flowering portion 

 short and broad, the bracts and bractlets caducous. Pedicels 

 shorter than the flowers, very stout, angled. Sepals 3 mm. 

 long, broadly oval or sub-rotund, thick, giay externally, purple 

 within, obscurely 3-nerved. Petals similar, but a little narrower. 

 Outer anthers sessile, broadly ovate, very thick, puberulent, the 

 thecae small, near the base. Glands of the third set of stamens 

 not apparent. Staminodia very small, linear or minutely 

 capitate. Style stout, short, 3-lobed, the lobes recurved. 



"A tree, to 50 feet or more, in mountain forest near Las 

 Partidas, 3,700 feet, March 17." (Herbert H. Smith, Colom- 

 bia, No. 1763.) • 



Ocotea flavescens. 



Pistillate Plant. — Youngest portions sparsely and very 

 minutely puberulent. Branchlets stoutish, purple, more or 

 less angled toward the summit, leafy. Petioles i to 1.5 cm. 

 long, rather stout, purple, grooved above, the groove extending 

 into the midrib. Blades 6 to 12 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, 

 lanceolate with rounded or blunt base and short-acuminate 

 and obtusish summit, thin but rigid, the older ones drying 

 yellowish, the younger glaucous on the lower surface. Venation 

 prominent beneath and slightly so above, except the midrib 

 and a pair of nerves which originate above the base, these being 



