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Petioles stout, the blades palmate, the five leaflets twenty to 

 thirty cm. long and eight to twelve cm. broad, oblanceolate 

 with cuneate base and rounded summit, the bases, after narrow- 

 ing, abruptly dilated and confluent; deep-green above, yellow- 

 ish-green beneath, the slender venation prominent on both 

 sides, much more so beneath, the secondaries about twenty on 

 ■each side, spreading widely and strongly falcate-ascending at 

 the ends, where they are more or less connected at or very close 

 to the margin, the venation finely reticulate. Panicle axillary, 

 solitary, elongated, 15 to 20 cm. long, very loosely flowered, the 

 rachis sulcate, the pedicels 6 to 8 mm. long, slender. Calyx 

 nearly 2 cm. long, campanulate, five-lobed a third of the way, 

 the lobes ovate and acute. Essential organs slightly exserted, 

 •about 5 mm. long, the fifteen anthers about i J/^ mm. long, ar- 

 ranged in an irregular circle at the base of the pistils, oval, curved, 

 •of unequal size, sessile. Pistils five, distinct, about 3 mm. long, 

 the ovaries lanceolate and acuminate, the styles slender, the 

 ■summits mostly reflexed, the stigmas small, peltate. 



Collected by Miguel Bang in Bolivia, without number, 

 locality or date. 



Saurauja brevipes. 



The stout branchlets and inflorescence, including the calyx, 

 more or less clothed with coarse hairs which are dilated or 

 «quamiform at the base. Similar but smaller and deciduous 

 hairs on both leaf-surfaces, borne on minute papillae. Leaves 

 10-20 cm. long, inclusive of the petiole, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, 

 ■oblanceolate, the cuneate base tapering regularly into the short 

 petiole, acute, or very shortly acuminate, deep-green above, 

 yellowish underneath, minutely and unequally dentate-serrate, 

 thickish, scabrous above, the principal veins 14-18 pairs, whit- 

 ish, upcurved, faintly anastomosing at the margin, connected 

 by faint secondaries. Panicles sessile or sub-sessile, mostly 

 terminal, 7-10 cm. long and broad, the branchlets subulate- 

 bracted at the base. Pedicels extremely short, subulate-bracted, 

 the flowers 5-7 mm. broad. Sepals 5 mm. broad, sub-rotund, 

 thin and translucent, nearly distinct, narrowed at the base. 

 Petals similar, about a half longer than the sepals. Filaments 

 longer than the anthers, tapering strongly upward, the anther- 

 cells separating widely at the base, opening by pores. Styles 

 three, stout, separate to the base. 



Species near S. scabra. 



Collected in Bolivia by M. Bang, but locality not specified 

 and specimen without number. 



Saurauja Herbert-Smithii. 



Sparsely pilose, the hairs short, stout and mostly falcate. 

 Branchlets slender, striate, leafy. Petioles 3 to 5 cm. long, 



