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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



cate, vdih 2 or 3 irregular short teeth. Corolla about 1.5 dm. 

 long, the segments greenish-dull-hrown, linear-oblanceolate, fer- 

 ruginous-tomentellate on both surface. Stamens very nmnerous, 

 apparently in 10 phalanges, bro^vn, nearly as long as the corolla. 

 Style filiform, the stigma truncate or minutely 2-lobed. 



Eurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, H. H. Rushy, October 7, 1921 {no. 

 1571). A small tree in the forest. 



Sterct'liaceae 



GuAZUMA coriacea Eusby, Bull. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 4 : 332. 1907. 



This species, well distinguished by its globose fruits, with 

 the tubercles obtuse or unappendaged, has been known only in 

 the fruiting state. A"o. 1401 is in flower and appears identical 

 vrii\\ the species named, although this cannot be positively as- 

 serted without directly connecting collections of flowers and 

 fruit. The following is a complete description of these flowering 

 specimens : 



Finely and closely grayish stellate-tomentellate. Branchlets 

 elongate, straight, slender, terete or obscurely angled near the 

 nodes. Stipules not seen. Petioles to 2 cm. long, rather stout, 

 somewhat enlarged upward, terete, tomentose. Blades to 15 cm. 

 long and half as wide, ovate, with rounded, truncate or subcor- 

 date base and acuminate and acute summit, finely and unecpially 

 crenate-dentate. rather thin, dr^'ing yellowish-green, the vena- 

 tion prominent beneath, the midrib strong, the secondaries slen- 

 der, 6 to 8 on each side, with some small intermediate ones, as- 

 cending at about 45 degrees and lightly curved, connected by a 

 coarse anastomosis. Cymes solitary in the axils, the peduncles 

 mostly shorter than their petioles, the flowering portion usually 

 a little longer than the peduncle. Bracts small, narroAvly subu- 

 late. Pedicels shorter than the flowers. Cah'x 2-parted, the seg- 

 ments 3 or 4 mm. long, strongly concave. Petals 5, yellow, the 

 body 4 mm. long, narrowed at the base, strongly concave, the 

 summit involute, bearing 2 linear ligules, 5 or 6 mm. long, united 

 at the base. Stamen-tube campanulate, 2 mm. long and broad, 

 the sterile lobes nearly as long as the anthers, acuminate but 

 obtusish. Stamens apparently 5 in a cluster, the filaments 

 united two thirds of their length. Style slightly longer than the 

 stamen-tube, slightly 5-cleft. P^ruit not seen. 



In copses about Lake Eogagua, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, No- 

 vember 1, 1921 {no. 1401). " A large tree, with yellow flowers." 



