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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



which are 8 to 10 mm. long and two thirds as broad, ellipsoid or 

 slightly narrower at the base, sometimes tipped with a short 

 style-base. Fruiting calyx 2 to 3 mm, broad, shallowly crateri- 

 form, bearing 5 very short setaceous teeth. 



On the pampas about Lake Rogagua, at about 1,000 feet, 

 Martin Cardenas, November 1, 1921 {no. 1394). 



This was a shrub, about a meter high, on the lake margin. 

 Mr. Cardenas collected it as a good-sized tree a few days later, 

 in the same locality {no. 1682). This specimen has leaves a half 

 larger, and of narrower form. The writer collected it as a small 

 tree, about fifty miles nearer the Beni River, November 12 {no. 

 1724), the fruit reported as being edible. The species is near 

 K. Hmnholdtiana of Mexico. 



Elaeocarpaceae 

 Sloanea xylocarpa 



(Fruiting specimens.) Petioles, principal veins of the lower 

 surface, etc., tomentellate. Branchlets stout, leafy. Petioles 2 

 to 3 cm. long, the blades 10 to l.j cm. long, 6 to 10 cm. wide, ovate, 

 with broad or subtruncate base and blunt smmnit, obscurety 

 sinuate, thick, dark-green, the midrib and some of the secon- 

 daries lightly grooved above, very stout and prominent beneath, 

 the secondaries about 12 on a side, ascending at about 45°, lightly 

 falcate, connected by straightish tertiaries, the venation very 

 finely and strongly reticulate. Panicles lax, long-peduncled, the 

 peduncles very stout. Capsules brown, shortly and stoutly pedi- 

 celled, 2 to 2.5 em. long, densely and unequally tuberculate, the 

 tubercles aristate, the aristae terete, weak and irregularly 

 curved. Valves 4, thick and woody. Seed about 1 cm. long, ob- 

 ovoid, with a broad, light-colored highly convex cap at the larger 

 end, apparently a strophiole. 



Tumapasa, 1,500 feet, M. Cardenas, December 9, 1921 {no. 

 1979). 



Sloanea fragrans 



Inflorescence gray-tomentellate. Branchlets very stout. 

 Petioles of the larger leaves 2 dm. long, 7 mm. thick, terete, hol- 

 low, strongly nerved. Blades to 7 dm. long and 3 dm. broad, ob- 

 ovate, obtuse, with rounded base, the margin obscurely sinuate, 

 obsoletely dentate, coriaceous, drying In-ownish, the midrib very 

 stout, the secondaries 15 to 20 on each side, spreading widely, 



