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MEMOIRS OF THE 2^EW YORK BOTANICAL (^ARDEX 



long, 6 to 18 cm. broad, oblong, with rounded base and short- 

 acimiinate summit, entire, glabrous, thin in consideration of 

 their great size, deep-green on both sides, the midrib narrowly 

 channeled above, very strongly prominent beneath, the 25 to 30 

 pairs of secondaries slender, sharjjly prominent beneath, widely 

 spreading, somewhat crooked, slightly falcate, connecting near 

 the margin, connected by a loose, slender reticulation. Panicles 

 much branched, the branches long, stout, densely gray or yel- 

 lowish tomentose, like the bracts, the flowers gray-pilose. Bracts 

 2 mm. high and broad, concave or cup-shaped, the concavity fac- 

 ing outward. Sepals about 1.5 cm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblanceo- 

 late, obtuse, with a broad base below a contracted portion, the 

 base long-white-pilose. Petals about as long as the base of the 

 sepals, lanceolate, acuminate and acute, glabrous. Ovary two- 

 thirds as long as the petals, the slender distinct purple styles 

 extending slightly beyond the petals. Staminate flowers not 

 seen. Fruiting calyx-tube nearly 1 cm. long and about half as 

 broad, oval, pilose, the sepals nearly 2 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, 

 oblanceolate ^vith rounded summit. Ovary brown, somewhat 

 shining, finely many-nerved, with obtusish angles, a little shorter 

 than the jjersistent petals, which lie closely appressed. in its 

 grooves. 



Fruiting specimen : San Buena Ventura, R. S. Williams, 1,000 

 feet, November 14, 1901 {Williams, 672, distributed as T. holivi- 

 aiia Britton). Flowering specimen: Huachi, 1,800 feet, midway 

 between Meguilla and San Buena Ventura, 0. E. White, August 

 14, 1921 (wo. 958). 



Clearly distinct from T. holiviana, especially in the form and 

 venation of the leaves, 



Triplaris vestita 



Densely tomentellate throughout and more or less ferrugi- 

 nous, the branchlets stout, terete, subcostate, the leaves more or 

 less reflexed. Petioles 1 cm. or more long, very broad, involute, 

 the base slightly clasping. Blades 8 to 15 cm. long, 5 to 8 cm. 

 broad, ovate with rounded and slightly unequal base and mostly 

 obtuse summit, entire, light or yelloAvish-green, thick, the rather 

 stout venation prominent on l)oth sides, the secondaries about 15 

 to 18 on a side, spreading, sharply up-curved near the margin 

 and connected by many crooked tertiaries. Panicle terminal, the 

 branches short and stout, densely fruited, the entire fruiting in- 

 florescence light-green, except the ferruginous rachis and bracts. 



