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rounded base and acutely nuieroiiate sununit, tliicldsli, the upper 

 surface nearly glabrous, with the midrib and secondaries often 

 slightly impressed, prominent beneath, the secondaries about 12 

 on each side, connecting at some distance from the margin, their 

 branches loosely reticulate along the margin. Racemes pedun- 

 cled in the upper axils, sometimes branched. Bracts of the stam- 

 inate flowers half as long as the pedicels, ovate, obtuse, thick, 

 bearing two large oblong glands on the margin, about the middle. 

 Pedicel stout, nearly 5 mm. long. Unexpanded flower depressed 

 globose, nearly 2 mm. broad. Stamens immerous, small, connate 

 for about half their length. Bracts of the pistillate flowers 

 lance-linear, acuminate. Fruiting pedicel enlarged upward, re- 

 curved, the persistent sepals ovate, obtuse, 2-glandular like the 

 bracts of the staminate flowers. Capsule subglobose. 



On the Rio Ibon, 500 feet, February 18, 1922 {no. 2379). 

 "Flowers greenish-yellow, a single pistillate flower at the base of 

 each raceme." 



Celastraceae 

 Maytenus meguillensis 



Glabrous, the branchlets short and rather stout, terete, the 

 leaves alternate. Petioles 5 to 10 mm. long, broad, cartilaginous, 

 mostly twisted in drying, the margins strongly up-curved. 

 Blades 6 to 10 cm. long, 3 to 6 cm. broad, oval, with subrotund 

 base and obtuse summit, entire or very^ obscurely sinuate-den- 

 tate, the slender venation slightly prominent above, strongly so 

 l)eneath, the secondaries 10 to 15 on a side, with intermediate 

 smaller ones, abruptly ascending at the base, then spreading 

 widely, and again strongly ascending to connect at some distance 

 from the margin, the intervening venation loosely anastomosing. 

 Cymes compound, x^Pduncled, short and broad, little exceeding 

 the petioles, densely flowered, the bracts very short and broad, 

 the flowers on extremely short, stout, angled pedicels, the flowers 

 6 to 7 mm. broad when fully expanded. Calyx-lobes very thick, 

 broader than long, with broadly rounded summit, less than half 

 the length of the petals, which are 2.5 mm. long and nearly as 

 broad, the base truncate, the summit rounded, the margin faintly 

 denticulate. Stamens about half as long as the petals, recurved, 

 the anthers short and broad. Disk plane, 3 mm. broad, thick and 

 fleshy, 5-grooved and lightly lobed. Stigma sessile, capitate, 

 depressed. 



On the Meguilla River, 3,500 feet, //. H. Rnshij, August 14, 

 1921 {no. 307). The same collected in the same locality, 0. E. 



