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3 mm. long, slender, the bases minutely bracted, the bracts 

 brown. Sepals 2 mm. long, sub-rotund, black-dotted within. 

 Stamens 12, slightly connate at the base, nearly as long as the 

 sepals, the staminodia very broad, half the length of the sta- 

 mens, pilose. Ovary short-ovoid, the style short and thick, 

 the stigmas 3, large, connate at the base. 



"A tree, probably from Onaca, about 2500 feet, December." 

 (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 906.) 



Species very similar to No. 1768, but the slender, somewhat 

 3-fid style of the latter marks it as distinct and in a different 

 section. 



dasearia (§ Crateria) chlorophoroidea. 



Glabrous except the minutely puberulent pedicels. Branches 

 slender, terete, deep-purple, the internodes 2.5 cm. long. Peti- 

 oles 8 to 10 mm. long, stout, deep-purple. Blades 7 to 12 cm. 

 long, 3 to 4 cm. broad, oblong, varying to lanceolate or oblanceo- 

 late with the base very abruptly contracted into the petiole 

 and with a very abruptly acuminate obtuse summit, the acumin- 

 ation a ninth or an eighth the total length; margin obscurely 

 indented, thin, deep-green, strongly pellucid-punctate, the spots 

 elongated, the venation lightly prominent on both surfaces, 

 more so beneath, where the purple midrib is very strong, the 

 secondaries about 8 on a side, with occasional fainter ones, 

 spreading, then strongly ascending, obscurely connected at the 

 margin, the venation finely and strongly anastomosing. Fas- 

 cicles about 2 cm. broad, densely very many-flowered, the pedi- 

 cels 4 to 6 mm. long, slender, bracted at the base, the bracts 

 very minute, brown. Sepals 1.5 mm. long, oval, obtuse. Sta- 

 mens 10, nearly as long as the sepals, the staminodia nearly as 

 long as the filaments, pilose. Ovary large, obliquely ovoid, 

 tuberculate, the style slender, more than a third the length of 

 the ovary, trifid, the branches strongly recurved, stout, the 

 stigmas small. 



"A riverside tree, near Calacasa, looq feet. May 18." (Her- 

 bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 800.) 



Specimen very near No. 1768, but the leaf-dots different 

 and the ovary and stigmas quite distinct. 



Casearia (§ Crateria) Herbert-Smithii. 



Inflorescence grayish-puberulent. Branches elongated, slen- 

 der, the internodes about 2 cm. long. Petioles 6 to 8 mm. long, 

 stout, purple, the blades 6 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm. broad, 

 lanceolate and mostly somewhat inequilateral at the acutish 

 or obtusish base, and abruptly acuminate and obtuse at the 

 summit, the acumination about one-eighth or one-ninth of the 



