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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



CUNONIACEAE 



Weinmannia geometrica 



Glabrous, except for the f'erriifj,-inous chaffy scales clothing 

 the young branchlets. Stems much branched, brown, angled. 

 Leaves 4 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, sessile. Leaflets 11 to 

 21, mostly about 15, thin, deep-green, sessile or subsessile, 8 to 

 20 mm. long and two thirds as broad, rounded above and with 

 acute or cuneate base, serrate-dentate, about 4 teeth on each side, 

 the teeth and sinuses acute. Wings of the rachis rhomboidal, 

 with cuneate base, about two thirds as wide as their leaves and 

 extending completely from leaflet to leaflet. Flowers not seen. 

 Fruiting racemes peduncled, the fruits mostly 2 or 3 together, 

 the pedicels flliform, 3 or 4 mm. long. Capsules about as long, 

 exclusive of the persistent styles, broadly oval. 



Pongo de Quime, 11,500 feet, 0. E. White, July 12, 1921 {no. 

 160). Species very near W. fagaroides, but quite distinct. 



Am ygdalace ae 



Hirtella acuminata 



More or less ferruginous-hirsute throughout. Branchlets 

 slender, terete, leafy. Stipules slenderly sulmlate, green, nearly 

 1 cm. long, acute. Petioles very short, nearly as broad as long. 

 Blades to 1.5 dm. long, and 4 cm. broad, lanceolate, with blunt 

 base and acuminate and acute summit, entire, thin, deep-green 

 on both sides, pubescent on the midrib above, ferruginous-hir- 

 sute on the veins beneath, the midribs and secondaries slender, 

 the latter 12 to 15 on each side, strongly ascending and looped 

 together a short distance from the margin, the venation strongly 

 anastomosing. Panicles terminal and occasionally axillary, 

 short-peduncled, densely short-hirsute with spreading hairs, 

 rather densely flowered, the branches subtended by very small 

 bracts. Pedicels 3 mm. or less long, the buds obovate with 

 rounded summit. Sepals 5 or 6 mm. long, slightly unequal, oval, 

 obtuse, thick, strongly recurved. Petals 4 mm. long and nearly 

 as mde, obovate with rounded summit, thick. Stamens 6, the 

 longest 12 to 15 mm. long, the style a little longer. Drupe, in 

 the dried state, 1.5 cm. long, 1 cm. wide, obovoid with rounded 

 summit. 



Species apparently related to H. Ughtioides Rusby, but en- 

 tirely distinct. Along the cataracts of the Bopi River, 3,000 feet, 



