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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTAJvICAL GARDEX 



Petioles 1 to 1.5 cm. long, very stout, strongly channeled above, 

 the larger blades 2 dm. long, 1 dm. wide, oval and obtuse at both 

 ends, entire, coriaceous, the venation slender, prominent beneath, 

 the secondaries about 8 to 10 on a side, ascending, falcate, con- 

 nected by a coarse reticulation. Racemes axillary, short-pe- 

 duncled, few-flowered, the pedicels bracted and 2-bracteolate at 

 the base, the bracts short, ovate, thick and coriaceous. Pedicels 

 1.5 to 2 cm. long, stout, striate, thickened at the summit. Calyx 

 8-glandular, the glands concave, the sepals triangular-ovate, 

 thick, l)lackish, hirsute with brown hairs. Body of fruit 1 cm. 

 long and more than half as broad and thick, elliptical. Dorsal 

 wing nearly horizontal, slightly declined, unequally oblanceo- 

 late, about 4.5 cm. long, and more than 1.5 cm. broad, auriculate, 

 the auricle about 1 cm. broad and nearly as long, with rounded 

 end, both coriaceous and finely very many-nerved. Crest of the 

 body double, the inner about twice as wide as the outer, both 

 coriaceous and sinuate, and projecting slightly above the body. 



In the Bopi Eiver Valley, 3,000 feet, H. H. Rushy, September 

 12, 1921 {no. 663). 



Banisteria sphaerandra 



(Heteropterys H. B. K.) Lower leaf-surfaces and pedicels 

 minutely sericeous-puberulent. Leaves opposite, glandless, the 

 stipules not seen. Petioles about 7 mm. long, narrowly mar- 

 gined, the margins involute, sulcate beneath, like the lower por- 

 tion of the midrib. Blades 1 to 1.5 dm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. broad, 

 regularly acuminate and acute, acutish at the base, entire, thick, 

 lustrous above, pale and slightly sericeous beneath, the slender 

 venation not prominent, the principal secondaries 10 or 12 on 

 each side. Panicle large, lax, the branches opposite from a some- 

 what turgid node, the branches and branchlets subtended by 

 small reduced leaves, the pedicels subtended by ovate, acumi- 

 nate and acute, green, thick bracts. Pedicels stoutish, al)out 3 

 mm. long, the flowers deep-yellow. Calyx 8-glandular, the sepals 

 nearly 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, ovate, blunt, thick, green, erect. 

 Petals 7 mm. long, the claw about a fourth of this length, and 

 nearly equally broad, concave, dentate, the teeth short-fimbriate. 

 Filaments subulate, fleshy, monadelphous at the base, unequal, 

 the longest equaling the styles. Anthers 8, reflexed, the oblong 

 greenish thecae borne on the face of a large, subglobular, black, 

 gland-like connective. Ovary black, deeply 3-lobed, lightly 

 pubescent, the styles stout, spreading, truncate. Fruit not seen. 



Dr. Gleason says ''Bears a strong general resemblance to 

 B. Mathewsana (A. Juss.), but in that species the calyx appears 

 glandless." 



