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Discus crassus annularis brevis. Stamina 4 perfecta apice tubi 
inserta, staminodio 4 mm. longo subulato adjecto; filamenta glabra 
1.2 et 1.9 cm. longa; antherae glabrae, locellis 2.5 mm. longis. 
Pistillum 3 cm. longum; ovarium sulcatum minute tomentellum; 
ovula in quoque loculo 2-seriata. Fructus (valde imperfectus) 
ligulatus brunneus costatus lucens obscure puberulus ea. 2.5 dm. 
longus 1.4 em. latus. — VENEZUELA: between La Boca and Alta 
Gracia, 1 May 1917, Curran & Haman 737 (Tyre in Gray Herb.); 
vicinity of Alta Gracia, 1 May 1917, Curran & Haman 737 A, 
737B.— A beautiful and distinct species. According to Mr. 
Curran, the tree is covered before the leaves appear with great 
masses of yellow flowers, soon falling and succeeded by the leaves. 
Driantuera pleurolarynx Blake, sp. nov. Herbacea (basi 
invisa) ramosa, caule aetate tereti glabro cortice canescente tecto, 
ramis viridibus bilineatim incurvo-pilosulis dense cystolithigeris, 
internodiis folia multo superantibus. Folia opposita lanceolata 
vel ovato-lanceolata plus minusve curvata longe acuminata basi 
rotundata integerrima pennivenia (venis conspicuoribus 3-6- 
jugis) supra saturate viridia cystolithigera in costa incurvo-hispi- 
dula ceterum glabra subtus pallidius viridia dense cystolithigera in 
venis sparse hispido-pilosa ceterum glabra majora 4-7 cm. longa 
1-2 cm. lata; petioli incurvo-hispiduli vix marginati 34 mm. longi. 
Spicae caulem et ramos terminantes solitariae vel binae demum 
interdum pseudo-axillares simplices tenues 6-12.5 em. longae, in 
pedunculis bifariam et sparse hispidulis 1.5-3.2 em. longis; flores 
per paria dissiti vel subapproximati sessiles. Bractea et bracteolae 
e basi ovata subulato-acuminatae supra sparse patenti-hispidulae 
ca. 4.5 mm. longae. Calyx 4-partitus 6 mm. longus, laciniis 
aequalibus lineari-subulatis attenuatis sparse hispidulis. Corolla 
valde bilabiata 9 mm. longa extus subsparse patenti-pilosula, parte 
tubulosa 3.5 mm. longa; labium superius ovatum obtusum inte- 
grum intus ad apicem 2-lamellatum, intus ad basin staminum 
pilosum; labium inferius multo majus et longius 3-lobum, lobis 
lateralibus deltoideo-rotundatis, medio quadrato-rotundato vix 
longiore, palato plicato-lamellato papilloso. Stamina 2: filamenta 
glabra 3 mm. longa; antherarum loculi mutici aequales 1 mm. 
longi in connectivo dilatato valde dissiti, altero suberecto in dorso 
pubescente altero valde obliquo glabro. Capsula clavata acutius- 
cula glaberrima 10mm. longa tetrasperma. Semina dense papilloso- 

