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stout. Panicles terminal and in the upper axils, the latter 

 shorter than their leaves, sessile or very short peduncled, rather 

 densely flowered. Flowers very shortly and stoutly peduncled, 

 the calyx 5 mm. long, the campanulate tube about half the 

 length, strongly pilose within, the lobes ovate, acute. Petals 

 nearly orbicular, shorter than the calyx lobes. Stamens about 

 equalling the calyx, unilateral, the filaments dilated at the base. 

 Ovary densely hirsute, the style filiform, the stigma capitate, 

 about equalling the stamens. Fruit stoutly peduncled, 4 cm. 

 long, 2 cm. broad, oblong, terete, the base abruptly contracted 

 into the peduncle, obtuse, gray-tomentellate. 



"A tree to 50 or 60 feet, common below 2,000 feet, prin- 

 cipally on banks of streams. Collected near Bonda, 150 feet, 

 February 15. Fruit ripens in October and November, but some 

 remain on tree till next flowering season." 



(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1775.) 



Moquilea cuspidata. 



Glabrous, except the inflorescence, which is pilose with 

 short appressed yellowish hairs. Branchlets stout, flexuous, 

 terete, deep-purple, the internodes about 12 mm. long. Leaves 

 divaricate or reflexed. Petioles 4 mm. long and almost as 

 broad, deep-purple, the blades 4 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. 

 broad, oblong-ovate, with rounded base and abruptly short- 

 acuminate and acute summit, entire, not shining, both surfaces 

 almost alike, thick and coriaceous, the venation slender but 

 sharply prominent, the secondaries about 12 on each side, 

 ascending and faintly connectiag close to the margin, connected 

 by straightish tertiaries, the venation finely and strongly anas- 

 tomosing. Stipules not seen. Panicles terminal and in the 

 upper axils, sparsely leafy at the base, short-peduncled, widely 

 spreading, the flowers very dense upon the short-peduncled 

 divaricate branches, the spikes 2 to 4 cm. long and half as broad. 

 Calyx 3 mm. long, the tube more than a third of the length, 

 broadly campanulate, the lobes ovate, obtuse, thick. Stamens 

 ID, nearly straight, about twice the length of the calyx, the fila- 

 ments slender. Ovary small, broader than long, the style 

 originating from the middle of the side, slightly exceeding the 

 stamens. 



"A tree to 50 feet or higher, in mountain forests near Las 

 Partidas, Colombia, 3,500 feet, March 10." (Herbert H. Smith, 

 No. 1773.) 

 Moquilea orinocensis. 



(Fruiting specimen.) 



Glabrous, the branchlets stout, terete, strongly ascending, 

 leafy, the peduncles nearly erect. Petioles 3 mm. long, stout. 



