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with Clusia. It has 6 to 7 or 8 ovarian cells, each containing 

 a number of horizontal pendulous ovules, and the plant has all 

 the habit of Clusia, but the carpels taper into triangular-lance- 

 olate styles with terminal, peltate, concave stigmas, the styles 

 in the young fruit state becoming erect or sub-erect. It can 

 belong to no other described genus than Clusia, but I believe 

 it to be distinct from that. In the absence of flowers, I can do 

 no more than suggest this view. All the above remarks apply 

 to the following. 



Clusia (?) ternstroemioides. 



Glabrous, the branchlets short, stout but weak, recurved, 

 leafy at the summit. Leaves 4 to 6 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. broad, 

 oblanceolate, tapering into a very short winged and lightly 

 keeled petiole and with rounded summit, thick and coriaceous, 

 the midrib and about twenty pairs of secondaries sharply 

 prominent beneath, very slightly so above. Young fruits few, 

 sessile at the summit. Sepals sub-rotund, broader than long, 

 appressed, fleshy with hyaline margin. Ovary about as broad 

 as long, sharply angled. Styles flat and fleshy, lanceolate, at 

 first reflexed upon the ovary, becoming erect and twisted, the 

 stigmas terminal, concave or 2-pitted. 



"A shrub 6 to 8 feet high; Tolapampa, Bolivia, 10,000 feet, 

 September 25, 1902. (R. S. Williams, I543-)" 



Vismia falcata Rusby. 



Upper leaf -surf aces glabrous, drying brown, the lower spar- 

 ingly and very finely ferruginous-puberulent, this covering 

 increasing in coarseness and density up the branchlets, through 

 the inflorescence and upon the calyx. Branchlets slender, 

 terete. Petioles about 2 cm. long, the blades 12 to 18 cm. long 

 by 3-5 to 4.5 cm. wide, lanceolate with sub-rounded, slightly 

 inaequilateral base and long-acuminate and acute summit, 

 slightly falcate, entire, thickish, the venation sharply prominent 

 underneath, faintly so above, finely reticulate, the principal 

 veins about 18 pairs, ascending at an angle of about 45 degrees 

 and curving to nearly erect near the margin. Panicle sessile, 

 short, broad and rather few-flowered. Pedicels very short and 

 stout. Sepals 7 mm. long by 5 mm. broad, oval, obtuse, very 

 thick, strongly 2-3-ribbed in the dry state. Petalsand stamens 

 wanting in my specimen. Young fruit blackish, globose, 

 tipped by five long stout styles which are distinct to .the base 

 and bear large stigmas. Seeds numerous. 



Collected by Rusby and Squires at Santa Catalina on the 

 lower Orinoco in May, 1896. (No. 142.) 



Vismia angustifolia. 



Closely and rather sparsely ferruginous-pubescent. Branch- 

 lets slender, terete, the internodes about 3 cm. long. Petioles 



