24 New Species of South American Plants 



Morisonia elliptica. 



Inflorescence, branchlets, etc., more or less scurfy. Branch- 

 lets stout, flexuous. Petioles i or 2 cm. long, stout, the blades 

 8 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. broad, elliptical with rounded or 

 slightly cordate base and abruptly very short and acutely 

 pointed summit, entire, thick and coriaceous, very finely puberu- 

 lent along the veins, the midrib sharply prominent on both 

 surfaces, the secondaries also prominent beneath, the slender 

 and somewhat crooked secondaries 5 or 6 on each side. Ped- 

 uncles developed laterally on the branchlets, stout, short, the 

 few loosely racemed flowers on stout, very short pedicels. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate, the ligulate appendages short, thick, ovate 

 and obtuse. Sepals 8 or 9 mm. long, broadly ovate with rounded 

 summit, thick, very scurfy. Petals 1.5 cm. long, elliptical oval 

 with a short claw, pilose within, slightly scurfy without. Sta- 

 mens numerous, 8 mm. long and about equalling the pistil, the 

 stout filaments pilose and gradually broadening upward into 

 the anthers, which bear an ovate terminal appendage. Stipe 

 nearly as long as the ovary, very thick. Ovary nearly as broad 

 as long, broadly lo-ribbed, the sessile discoid stigma nearly as 

 wide as the ovaiy, very thick. "Fruit globose, brown, rough- 

 ish, iH inches in diameter" (Smith). 



"A spreading tree, to 20 feet. Rare in dry forest near the 

 coast and for several miles inland. Flowers and fruit on the 

 same tree. Petals whitish or with a greenish -yellow tinge. 

 Collected near Playa Brava, April 10." (Herbert H. Smith, Co- 

 lombia, No. 2098). The specimen is accompanied by a single 

 detached leaf that is broadly ovate, and highly inequilateral, 

 but otherwise like the others. It seems hardly possible that it 

 belongs to the species and is more probably the leaf of a Cap- 

 paris. . 



Elaeodendron macrophyllum. 



Glabrous, the branchlets slender, terete, purplish. Peti- 

 oles 6 mm. long, stout, the blades 10 to 17 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. 

 broad, oblong-lanceolate -with acutish base and acuminate, 

 obtusish summit, entire, thick, slightly reticulate, the venation 

 prominent beneath, lightly impressed above, the secondaries 

 about 7 on each side, strongly ascending, lightly curved and 

 obscurely connecting close to the margin, connected by the 

 very slender, obscure tertiaries. Only young fruit seen, ap- 

 parently solitary on short, very stout peduncles, which thicken 

 upward. Fruit oval with rounded summit, gray-brown, rough- 

 ish. 



"Falls of Madeira, Brazil, October 1886" (H. H. Rusby, 

 No. 1248). 



Specimen near Spruce's No. 2097. 



