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the calyx-lobes, or yellowish, and about two thirds of their length. 

 Longer stamens about equaling the calyx-lobes, the others a 

 fourth shorter, the filaments filiform, the oval anthers 2 mm. 

 long, attached below the middle. Style about equaling the sta- 

 mens, slightly thicker than the filaments, clavate at the sum- 

 mit, the short, broad stigma 2-grooved. Fruit ellipsoid, 1 cm. 

 long, 6 or 7 mm. broad, 8-sulcate, transversely grooved. Seeds 

 numerous, brown, inequilaterally pyriform or lightly falcate, 

 about 1 mm. long. 



Puleheri, 10,000 feet, 0. E. White, July 15, 1921 {no. 232). 

 ' ' Shrub 2 to 8 feet high, in rain-forest, the flowers cardinal-red 

 and yellow." 



Theophrastaceae 

 Clavija Cardenasii 



Lower leaf-surfaces minutely and sparsely puberulent. Stem 

 erect, simple, to 2 m. high, blackish-gray and finely many- 

 wrinkled in drying. Leaves to 5 dm. long and 12 cm. wide, 

 oblanceolate, the base very gradually tapering into a narrowly 

 winged stout petiole, the summit not seen, minutely and sparsely 

 toothed, the teeth salient and acute, the midrib lightly channeled 

 above, very prominent and terete beneath, the venation promi- 

 nent on both sides, the secondaries coarsely, strongly and irregu- 

 larly anastomosing, as does the finer venation. Racemes mostly 

 solitary and simple, about half the length of their leaves, or less, 

 very slender, loosely flowered, irregularly peduncled. Bracts 

 shorter than their pedicels, subulate, acute, thickish, not or little 

 spreading. Pedicels about L5 mm. long, thickened upward. 

 Calyx 2 to 3 mm. broad, and not so long, the turbinate tube 

 gradually narrowed into the pedicel, longer than the 5 broadly 

 rounded, whitish, minutely mueronate lobes, loosely enclosing 

 the bud. Corolla scarlet or vermilion, fleshy, 8 to 10 mm. broad, 

 the campanulate tube very short, the lobes subrotund. Stami- 

 nodia thick and fleshy, broader than long, their breadth about 

 half that of the white stigma, which is 1.5 mm. broad and 10- to 

 12-dentate or crenate. Staminate flower not present in my speci- 

 men. 



Rurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, Martin Cardenas, November 25, 

 1921 {no. 1178). 



Myrsinaceae 



Cybianthus glauca 



(Fruiting specimen.) Glabrous. Stem terete, apparently 

 simple. Leaves 1 to 2 dm. long, 6 to 9 cm. Avide, oblanceolate, 



