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very shortly and stoutly pedicelled, the pedicels faintly angled. 

 Calyx about 2 mm. broad and half as long, sub-umbilicate at 

 the base, lobed about half way, the lobes rounded or with a 

 minute point at the summit. Petals nearly 4 mm. long. Sta- 

 men tube a little. longer than the free portion of the stamens, 

 pilose within. Stamens unequal, on very short and slender 

 filaments, the anthers lance-oblong, the staminodia unequal, 

 about two-thirds the length of their stamens, attenuate from a 

 triangular base. 



Mr. Smith has sent three specimens, with different localities 

 and dates, under one number, his usual practice. The other 

 two of this number pertain to T. appendiculata C. D. C, 

 from which this is distinct, not only in its leaf characters, but 

 in the distinct free filaments and the form and size of the stam- 

 inodia. Karsten's T. muUiflora is nearer T. appendiculata 

 than to the present species. 



"In forest region near Calaqualito, 1200 feet. January 18. 

 Appears to have another flowering season in August." (Her- 

 bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 447.) 



BjTsonima Herbert-Smithii. 



Glabrous, excepting the inflorescence. Branchlets slender, 

 terete, widely spreading. Petioles 6 to 12 mm. long, grooved 

 above, the base dilated and enclosing the base of the connate 

 stipules which are 4 to 6 mm. long, ovate, acuminate 

 and acute, concave, thickish,- brown. Blades 7 to 14 cm. 

 long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, oblong with abruptly and shortly 

 produced base and mucronate summit, thickish, somewhat 

 lustrous, the venation very slender, not prominent, the 

 secondaries 8 or 10 on each side, with obscure intermediate ones, 

 connecting at some distance from the margin, the venation 

 loosely reticulate. Raceme solitary, terminal, short-peduncled, 

 the peduncle bearing one or more small subulate bracts, the 

 rachis 7 to 12 cm. long, slender, puberulent, rather densely 

 flowered, the flowers mostly recurved. Pedicels 6 to 8 mm. 

 long, suljtended by a small ovate, acute, brown, pilose bract, 

 and bearing a pair of similar ones below the middle, thickened 

 upward and costate. Sepals 3 mm. long, equaling the claw of 

 the petal, the limb of the latter nearly as long, oval with sub- 

 truncate base, not concave. Filamsnts slightly exceeding the 

 calyx, the ovoid obtuse gray anthers half as long. Styles 

 nearly as long as the filaments. 



"A tree to 50 feet, occasional in mountain forest, 3000 to 

 5000 feet. Specimen from Las Nubes road, 3500 feet, Decem- 

 ber 5. Petals rosy-lilac." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 

 1502.) The same apparently collected by Spruce at Tarapota. 



