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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEX 



2 cm. long-, upwardly tliickenocl, l)laek, the carpels about 1..") cm. 

 long and half as wide, inaequilaterally ellipsoid, or slightly nar- 

 rower below. 



Covendo, 2,000 feet, 0. E. White, August 26, 1921 {no. 913). 



Duguetia ibonensis 



(Fruiting specimen.) Heavily glandular-dotted. Branch- 

 lets elongate, slender, glandular-roughened, like the petioles and 

 midribs of the lower surface. I'etioles 7 or 8 mm. long, blackish, 

 swollen at the base. Blades to 13 cm. long, 4.5 cm. broad, oblong, 

 acute at both ends, the summit abruptly contracted into a short 

 acumination or cusp. Blade thickish, smooth and shining above, 

 coarsely punctate with white glands beneath, the midrib sharply 

 prominent. Secondaries 15 or 18 on each side, widely spreading 

 and connecting- far from the margin. Torus apparently convex, 

 the carpels 12 mm. long, 9 mm. wide, coherent about half way, 

 the exposed portion blackish, the rest brown, 4- to 6-angled, the 

 summit mostly obtuse. Seed nearly elliptic, 1 cm. long and half 

 as broad, l^rown, very smooth and shining. 



On the River Ibon, 500 feet, 0. E. White, February 22, 1922 

 (no. 3089). ''A tree of 10 to 20 feet, in deep, dark forest, in 

 sandy loam. Fruit scarlet-crimson with black blotch on points. 

 Pulp creamy and sweet. Eaten by natives." 



Duguetia sp. 



A single specimen of Duguetia Avas collected in fruit, neither 

 leaves nor flowers being secured, which exhibits the following 

 characters. 



Branchiets very stout, glabrous. Fruits lateral, solitary, the 

 peduncle 2.5 cm. long-, 1 cm. thick, w^oody, bearing a thick annulus 

 at the summit. Outer circle of 21 filaments densely crowded, 

 woody, 14 mm. long, laterally flattened, the upper half thin and 

 blade-like, acuminate, the lower half bearing 3 keels on the back, 

 two of them marginal, the third dorsal and a continuation of the 

 upper i)art, the broad base projected downward below the torus 

 and slightly 3-toothed by the ends of the keels. Torus fleshy, 

 hemispheric or higher, 3 cm. or more broad. Carpels, in the 

 dried state, 2 cm. long, 13 cm. broad, 7 mm. thick, obovoid, the 

 broadest portion about two-thirds of the way from base to sum- 

 mit. Lower portion blackisli, sharply keeled on both sides and 

 both edges. Upper portion brown, wrinkled, pu])erulent or jiul- 



