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verulent, hf^aring- tlie sliort tliick style-base. Pul)) thin. Seed 2 

 cm. long, 8 nun. wide, oblong-, blackish. Endosi)ei-ni in numerous 

 transverse folds. 



None of the species described has a fruit approaching this in 

 size, but T do not care to name it without fii'st seeing leaves and 

 flowers. 



Locality and date unknown. 



Trigynaea Periquino 



(Fruiting specimen.) Glabrous. Branchlets slender, terete, 

 reddish-brown. Petioles 7 or 8 muL long, stout, flattened above. 

 Blades to 2 dm. long, and 8 cm. broad, oblong, somewhat oblique, 

 with oblique acute or obtusish base and very abruptly short- 

 acuminate and acute sunmiit, entire, coriaceous, shining above, 

 with the midrib prominent, the midrib and secondaries promi- 

 nent beneath, the secondaries 14 to 16 on each side, widely 

 spreading, with the ends upcurved and strongly connecting at 

 some distance from the margin, the fine venation obscure, the 

 leaf minutely and densely pellucid-punctate. Position of flowers 

 not determinable from the specimen. Fruiting peduncle 3 mm. 

 long and thicker than its length. Carpels apparently 3 or 4, on 

 a nearly plane torus, the stipe 2 to 3 cm. long, stout, bearing a 

 thick annulus at the base of the carpel, which is occasionally 

 nearly 5 cm. long, varying from globose to short-ellipsoid, 

 rounded at both ends, glabrous. Seeds in a single series, elliptic, 

 vertically flattened, horizontal, 2 cm. long, 12 mm. broad, papil- 

 lose, brown. 



Esperanza Falls, 0. E. White, March 12, 1922. "Dark-red, 

 with brown seeds. Very sweet and pleasant. Locally called 

 'Periquino.' " 



Laiteaceae 



OcoTEA PsEUDo-coTo Eusby, Bull. Torrey Club 49 : 261. 1922. 

 {No. 1050). 



Nectandra Coto Rusby, Bull. Torrey Club 49: 260. 1922. 

 {No. 1048, 1050.) 



AcRODiCLiDiuM BENENSE Rusby, Bull. Torrcy Club 49 : 262. 

 1922. {No. 649.) 



Crassulaceae 



EcHEVERiA Whitei Rosc, Addisouia 10 : 44. jA. 344. 1925. 



