2G New Species op South American Plants 



pedicels slender, longer or much shorter than the calyx, which 

 is I to 1.5 mm. long and broad, the base sub-truncate, the 

 sepals ovate and acute. Petals a little longer than the sepals. 

 Filaments short, stout. Ovary ovoid, nearly^ as long as the 

 sepals, tapering into a short stout style, the stigmas large. 



"A shrub of 2 M., at Unduavi, Bolivia, 3,400 M. altitude, 

 November 1910 (Otto Buchtien, No. 2854). 



Licania venosa. 



Fiaely gray-tomentellate, the branchlets slender, erect or 

 strongly ascending, coarsely angled or sulcate, leafy. Petioles 

 1.5 to 2 cm. long, stout, strongly channelled above, the margins 

 bearing several rows of glands so as to appear crenated. Blades 

 10 to 13 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. broad, oval or obovate with blunt 

 base and stoutly mucronate and acute summit, thick and cori- 

 aceous, entire, white or yellowish tomentellate beneath, with 

 the purple venation strongly prominent, above purple and 

 sparsely and finely puberulent, the midrib impressed, the prin- 

 cipal secondaries about 8 or 10 on each side, strongly ascending, 

 disappearing in the margin or the upper lightly connecting, 

 connected by very numerous straightish tertiaries, the ultimate 

 venation finely reticulate. Panicles terminal and axillary, the 

 lower longer than their leaves, strongly peduncled, the peduncles 

 coarsely angled, loosely and openly branched. Flowers crowded 

 at the ends of the branchlets, very shortly and stoutly pedicelled 

 or sub-sessile, subtended by small, broadly ovate acute bracts. 

 Calyx 6 mm. long, the inequilaterally globoidal tube more than 

 half the length and about as broad as long, its mouth contracted , 

 the lobes ovate, obtusish, recurved, densely lanuginose within, 

 thick and coriaceous. Petals wanting. Stamens small, shorter 

 than the calyx. Pistil small, globose, lanuginose. 



Manoa, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May 1896. (Rusby and 

 Squires, No. 423.) Very near and possibly the same as Jen- 

 man's No. 3839. 



Parinariutn pachyphyllum. 



Inflorescence and lower leaf-surfaces finely gray-tomen- 

 tellate. Branchlets stout, flexuous, obscurely sulcate, the 

 internodes about 2 cm. loag. Stipules not seen. Petioles 

 8 mm. long, stout, channeled above, bearing 2 small black 

 glands about two-thirds of the way above the base. Blades 5 

 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. broad, oblong, or oval, with acute or 

 obtusish base and summit, entire, thick and coriaceous, drying 

 brown, minutely gray-tomentellate beneath, the venation very 

 finely and very stoutly anastomosing, prominent on both sur- 

 faces, more so beneath, the principal secondaries 20 or more on 

 each side, slightly falcate, lightly connecting near the margin, 



