Blake — Plants of Venezuela and Curacao 43 
HecATOSTEMON dasygynus Blake, sp. nov. ‘ Arbor parva.” 
Rami vetustiores subtenues patenti-puberuli lenticellati cortice 
canescente tecti, ramuli novelli patenti-puberuli pilis aliis brevis- 
simis aliis longiusculis flavicantibus lucentibus et glandular- 
adspersi. Folia alterna ovalia vel oblongo-ovalia basi inaequilat- 
eraliter rotundata vel vix semicordata apice obtusa rotundata 
retusa vel brevissime acutata subchartacea appresse serrulata 
(dentibus ca. 57-jugis glandulari-mucronulatis) pennivenia reticu- 
lato-venosa (venis majoribus 8-11-jugis) supra juventate in costa 
et venis patenti-pubescentia maturitate glabra (costa excepta) 
subtus paullo pallidiora in costa venis et venulis majoribus patenti- 
pubescentia ceterum glabra dense pellucido-punctata 5-11 em. 
longa 2.5-5 cm. lata; petioli nudi dense patenti-puberuli 4—6 mm. 
longi; stipulae ovato-lanceolatae acuminatae dense puberulae 
deciduae 2 mm. longae. Flores axillares cymoso-fasciculati, 
fasciculis saepius 4-floris dense sordide patenti-puberulis; pedun- 
culus 4-6 mm. longus, pedicellis 1.1-2 em. longis basi articulatis; 
bracteolae triangulari-ovatae pilosulae ad 1 mm. longae deciduae. 
Calycis 6 mm. longi segmenta 5 ovalia apice rotundata subcanes- 
centi-pilosa pilis subappressis subsordidis pellucido-punctata et 
-lineolata. Stamina 90-100, filamentis liberis glabris filiformibus 
ad 5 mm. longis, in alabastro inflexis. Segmenta disci (“ stami- 
nodia ’’) pallida ad apicem parum colorata et pilosa subclavata ad 
0.5mm. longa. Pistillum ad 4.5mm.longum. Fructus immaturus 
ovoideo-subglobosus dense vestitus, stylo basi excepta deciduo, 
sepalis reflexis et staminibus basi donatus. — VENEZUELA: dry 
land south of river, Rio Limén, 10 May 1917, Curran & Haman 
807 (Type in Gray Herb.). 
The affinity of this genus is clearly with Casearia Jacq. and 
Zuelania A. Rich. The latter, sunk in Casearia by Bentham & 
Hooker but readopted with reason by Warburg in the Pflanzen- 
familien, differs in its large sessile stigma and fewer (about 30) 
1-seriate anthers on short filaments; the former in its few (6-25) 
l-seriate stamens alternating with the glands of the disk. In 
Casearia spiralis Johnston, also from Venezuela, which possesses 
nearly the maximum number of stamens (22-23) in the genus, 
they are still strictly 1-seriate and in alternation with the glands 
of the disk. I am unable to see the pertinence of Johnston’s 
