76 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium 
SAURAUIA PSEUDOCOSTARICENSIS Busc.! Malpighia xxvii. 25 
(1915). To this species I would refer Tonduz 11690, from Copey, 
Costa Rica, which was included by Dr. Buscalioni first among the 
specimens upon which his S. costaricensis J. D. Sm. var. dolicotricha 
was based (Malpighia xxvii. 15). The same number was also re- 
ferred by him (l.c 12) to his var. brachitricha of the same species. 
Saurauia costaricensis, as originally described by Capt. Smith 
(Bot. Gaz. xxiii. 236 (1897)), was a complex, based upon the fol- 
lowing collections: Cooper 5714, Tonduz 1744 & 7685, J. D. Smith 
4745 & 4746, and Pittier & Tonduz 8589. On one of these collec- 
tions, J. D. Smith 4746, the very distinct S. ovalifolia J. D. Sm. 
Bot. Gaz. xlii. 292 (1906) was based; from another, J. D. Smith 
4745, the equally distinct S. pseudocostaricensis Busc. was de-_ 
scribed. As no type for S. costaricensis has ever been designated, 
the first-cited collection, J. J. Cooper 5714, which agrees well with 
the original description, is here selected as type. From S. costari- 
censis as thus typified the collection under consideration, Tonduz 
11690, is too different to permit its union as a variety, while it 
agrees perfectly with the type collection of S. pseudocostaricensis, 
except for the fact that there are a few stellate hairs on the midrib 
beneath, a feature too insignificant to be considered of any im- 
portance, in the absence of other differences. 
SAPOTACEAE 
BuMELIA Brandegei, nom. nov. — B. fragrans Brandegee ! Zoe 
v. 106 (1901); not B. fragrans Ridley ! Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxvii. 
43 (1890). — The existence of an earlier B. fragrans Ridley, from 
Brazil, makes it necessary to provide a new name for the quite 
different species of the same name from Lower California. 
UMELIA megaphylla, sp. nov. Arbor ramosus. Rami teretes 
brunnescentes glabrati plus minusve lenticellati. Folia alterna 

