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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



Spikes 2 to 4 cm. long-, often 1 cm. l)road, conic, obtuse, yellowish, 

 densely flowered. Bracts about 1 cm. long, narrowly subulate 

 or nearly setaceous, thick, acute. 



Male flowers: (Only buds seen.) Pedicels shoii, slender. 

 One calyx-lobe wanting or minute, the fourth smaller than the 

 other three, which are broadly ovate, thick. Open flowers not 

 seen. Stamens 10, the filaments in the bud 1.5 to 2 mm. long, 

 dark-brown, slender, pilose, a little longer than the anthers. 



Female flowers : Several at the base of the spike, sessile. 

 Calyx-lobes 3, sometimes with vestiges of the other two, about 

 4 mm. long and more than half as wide, green with a broad yellow 

 middle portion, thick and rigid. Ovary broader than long, about 

 2 mm. broad, densely hairy. Stjdes densely hairy, nearly 4 mm. 

 long, deeply bifid, the summit incurved. Capsule globose, about 

 4 mm. long. 



Ixiamas, 800 feet, M. Cardenas, December 20, 1921 {no. 2026). 



Croton Buchtienii 



Eough grey-hairy throughout. Herbaceous, the stems stout, 

 the branches slender, suberect, flexuous. Petioles 3 to 5 mm. 

 long, thick. Blades 1.5 to 3 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. broad, ovate 

 with rounded base and acute or obtuse summit, coarsely serrate- 

 dentate, deep-green above, gray beneath, subtrinerved, the vena- 

 tion very stout and prominent beneath. Inflorescence too young 

 for description, but taken, as given below, from specimens col- 

 lected by Buchtien. 



Near Eeyes, 1,000 feet, //. ?I. Ilushij, October 26, 1921 {no. 

 1332). 



Otto Buchtien 's no. 1362, collected at San Gabriel, Mapiri, 

 750 meters, August, 1907, distributed as "C. chamaedraefolium 

 Griseb.," is evidently the same and yields the following char- 

 acters : 



Flowers (unopened in my specimen) borne in a short, few- 

 flowered flexuous raceme, partly concealed among the upper 

 leaves, the pedicels short, subtended by subulate bracts about as 

 long as themselves. Fruiting sepals linear, distinct, unequal, 

 shorter than the capsule, which is about 3 mm. long and broad, 

 light-brown, shortly stellate-hairy, lightly 3-lobed. 



