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gin. Axillary peduncles short, more or less angled toward the 

 summit, few flowered, the bracts small, broadly ovate, acute. 

 Only young buds and fruits seen, the fruits (mature?) globose, 

 6 mm. broad, green. 



Sacupana, Lower Orinoco, Venezuela, April. (Rusby and 

 Squires, Nos. 247 and 416.) 

 Salacea tnucronata 



Glabrous, the slender, terete, recurved, grayish branchlets 

 finely tuberculate. Petioles 5 to 8 mm. long, stout, channelled 

 above, the blades 4 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. wide, obovate with 

 cuneate base and rounded and slightly mucronate, occasionally 

 retuse summit, the margin entire and sharply revolute, thickish, 

 the principal secondaries about 8 or 9 on each side, slender, 

 spreading and anastomosing close to the margin, the fine vena- 

 tion coarsely reticulate. Cymes subsessile, much bifurcating, 

 the grayish-brown branchlets enlarging toward the summit, the 

 divaricate bracts thickish, triangular-ovate, acute, strongly 

 concave, about 2 mm. long. Flowers very shortly and stoutly 

 pedicelled, the globose buds i to 1.5 mm. broad. Expanded 

 calyx 3 mm. broad, fleshy, the margin sinuate. Petals more 

 than twice the length of the calyx, somewhat fleshy, sub-rotund. 

 Disk annular, prominent, fleshy, sub-entire. Anthers 3, very 

 small, equaling the stigma, the filaments about i mm. long, 

 stoutish, sigmoid-curved. Fruit not seen. 



Forests of the Lower Orinoco River, near Santa Catalina, 

 Venezuela. (Rusby and Squires, No. 130.) 

 Salacea catalinensis. 



Veins of the lower leaf-surfaces, younger portions and in- 

 flore'scence gray-puberulent. Branchlets stoutish, terete, pur- 

 ple, finely striate. Petioles 5 or 6 mm. long, stout, divaricate 

 or recurved, the blades 5 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, with 

 rounded base and shortly and broadly mucronate and obtusish 

 summit, thick, very pale, especially underneath, the venation 

 impressed above, sharply prominent on the lower grayish sur- 

 face, the principal secondaries 4 to 6 on each side, strongly fal- 

 cately ascending and strongly inter-arching a short distance 

 from the margin, connected by the tertiaries. Peduncles in 

 the upper axils and terminal, mostly shorter than their leaves, 

 spreading, more or less angled and finely striate, successively 

 dichotomous. Bracts rigid, ovate and concave, acute, the 

 bractlets similar but smaller. Pedicels short, slender. Flower 

 about 13 mm. broad, the caljTc two-thirds the breadth of the 

 green corolla, shallowly lobed, the lobes rounded with minutely 

 laciniate margins. Petals spatulate, 6 mm. broad, the margin 

 lightly lacerate. Disk 6 or 7 mm. broad, circular, brown, 

 entire, lightly convex, the margin lightly upcurved. Filaments 



