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lightly impressed. Principal secondaries only three or four on 

 a side, with faint intermediate ones, strongly falcate-ascending 

 and crooked, connecting near the margin, some of them with 

 glands in their axils. Finer venation finely reticulate. Pan- 

 icle in the upper axils, about as long as their leaves, the slender 

 peduncles about half the total length, the inflorescence lax and 

 open. Perigone 2.5 mm. long, the sepals ovate and obtuse, with 

 dark middle line, thick and rigid. Petals a little longer and 

 much broader, thinner. Stamens varying greatly in develop- 

 ment in different flowers, some very rudimentary, others nearly 

 perfect. Outer set very small and rudimentary, the second 

 oblong with base slightly narrowed, the third elongated, with 

 narrow base, the glands flattened and large, their combined 

 breadth equal to the length of the stamen. Staminodia minute. 

 Ovary ovoid-globoidal, the style very short, stout, entire. 



"A tree of 50 or 60 feet, pretty common in mountain forest 

 near Valparaiso, 4,000 to 5,500 feet, February 25." (Herbert 

 H. Smith, No. 1762.) 



Ocotea flexuosa. 



Staminate Plant. — Glabrous. Branchlets stout, flexuous, 

 terete, deep-purple. Petioles about i cm. long, very stout, 

 deep-purple. Blades 10 to 20 cm. long, 4 to 8 cm. broad, ovate 

 with acutish base and abruptly short-pointed acutish summit, 

 very thick, very dark-reddish green and shining above, the 

 slender venation prominent beneath, the principal secondaries 

 10 or 12 on a side, falcate-ascending, crooked and branching, 

 connecting far from the margin, mostly with axillary glands, 

 the remaining slender venation coarsely reticulate. Panicle 

 terminal, large and broad, compound, branching at or near the 

 base, recurved, lax and open, the flowers very shortly and 

 stoutly pedicelled and bracteolate with thick, short, ovate, 

 acute bractlets. Sepals 2.5 or 3 mm. long, ovate, mostly acut- 

 ish, very thick, somewhat keeled. Outer stamens very short 

 and broad, attached to the base of the sepals. The second set 

 somewhat elongated, the third set with a pair of black, sessile, 

 connate glands at the base. Staminodia very small, acute. 

 Ovary very rudimentary. 



"A forest- tree in mountains above Don Amo estate, about 

 2,500 feet, January 14." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 

 1764.) 



Ocotea alloiophylla. 



Shortly tomentose and somewhat ferruginous. Branchlets 

 short, stout, flexuous. Petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, very broad 

 and stout, broadly channelled. Blades of the season 12 to 15 

 cm. long, 3 to 7 cm. broad, obovate with acutish base and 



