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the chance of its belonging to one of the many species or hybrids 
recently described from the Old World and not represented in the 
Gray Herbarium would seem to be reduced to a minimum. 
Ill. NEW SPERMATOPHYTES COLLECTED IN 
VENEZUELA AND CURACAO BY MESSRS. 
CURRAN & HAMAN 
By 8. F. Buaxe 
Tue new species described in this paper form part of a collection 
made for the Gray Herbarium in the spring and summer of 1917 by 
Mr. H. M. Curran, tropical forester, and his assistant, Mr. Miles 
Haman of Cornell University, on the Island of Curagao and in the 
coastal region of Venezuela. Mr. Curran has supplied the follow- 
ing notes on the area of his explorations. ‘‘ My collections cover 
the coast region of Venezuela from Lake Maracaibo to the Peder- 
nales mouth of the Orinoco. Mr. Haman made a short trip to the 
south of the Lake in the vicinity of the railroad which goes to 
Cucuta. We also collected about Caracas. With these exceptions 
our collections were in the arid scrubby cactus and thorn forests of 
the coast.’”’ It may be added that Mr. Curran’s collecting was 
confined almost entirely to woody plants, very few herbaceous 
species being represented. 
Ruprecutia (Euruprechtia) Curranii Blake, sp. nov. Arbor 
dioica valde ramosa. Ramuli crassi teretes lenticellati rugos! 
glabri cortice canescente tecti, novelli pallidi glabri. Folia alterna 
obovata vel ovali-obovata subobtusa vel breviter acutata bas! 
cuneata integra parum repanda crasso-chartacea obscure viridia ‘ 
pennivenia (venis majoribus 9-10-jugis conspicuis, ceteris obscuris) 
supra tenuiter reticulata venis et venulis etiam minimis paullum 
prominentibus subtus vix pallidiora reticulata venis parum curvatis | 
apice inter se anastomosantibus parum prominentibus venulis vi 
vel omnino non prominentibus utrinque glabra saepius 4.5-7.7 ¢m- 
longa 1.8-3.9 cm. lata; petioli glabri pallidi 2-5 mm. longi; ochreae 
strigosae persistentes ad 0.6mm. longae. Spicae (3 tantum visae) 
axillares 2-4 in fasciculis dense breviterque strigosae 3-3.5 ¢™- 
longae; pedicelli ad 3 mm. longi hispiduli prope medium articulati- 
Flor. $: perianthium 1.8-2 mm. longum sparse pubescens paene 
