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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



daries 15 to 18 on each side, with many smaller ones, spreading 

 widely, little curved except at the ends, very slender, the slender 

 venation strongly anastomosing. Fruits crowded below the 

 leaves, sessile, globose or slightly broader than long, 2 to 2.5 cm. 

 broad in the dried state, very fleshy, mostly 4- or 5-seeded. Seeds 

 about 1 em. long, two thirds as broad, brown, strongly shining, 

 nearly ellipsoid, the hilum oblong, extending nearly the entire 

 length. 



Huachi, 3,000 feet, H. H. Rushy, August 22, 1921 {no. 691). 

 "A large forest tree with abundant milky juice. Fruit yellow^, 

 sweet and good, but dei^ositing an objectionable amount of 

 gummy resin upon the teeth." 



Chrysophyllum ovale 



(Fruiting specimen). Glabrous. Branchlets slender, gray, 

 coarsely angled, coarsely pitted with scars, leafy, the leaves 

 mostly larger at the ends. Petioles, including the narrowed leaf- 

 base, with which they are continuous, about 1 cm. long, flat, 

 margined. Blades very unequal, from 3 to 8 cm. long, and 1.5 

 to 3 cm. wide, oblong or oval, very abruptly contracted into a 

 short point at each end, that at the summit mostly oblique or 

 twisted, mostly obtuse ; entire, thickish, shining, the midrib un- 

 derneath rounded and strong, channeled above, the principal 

 secondaries 12 to 15 on each side, with numerous smaller ones, 

 the smaller venation obscure. Pedicel of the fruit about 4 mm. 

 long, slender. Persistent calyx lobes reflexed, about 1 mm. lojig, 

 ovate, obtuse. Dried fruit globose or a little longer than broad, 

 about 1.5 cm. broad, fleshy, mostly 1-seeded in my specimens, the 

 seed 1 cm. or more long and more than half as broad, ellipsoid, 

 light-brown, somewhat shining, the gray hilum taking up two 

 thirds of the length and half the circumference of the seed. 



Esperanza Falls, 500 feet, 0. E. White, February 1921 {no. 

 1384- A). 



Ebenaceae 



Diospyros boliviana 



(Fruiting specimen, bearing a single leaf.) Glabrous, with 

 the exception of the calyx. Branchlets numerous, rather stout, 

 light-gray. Petiole 7 mm. long, stout, flattened or shalloAvly chan- 

 neled on the upper surface. Blade 6 cm. long, 4.5 cm. l)road, 

 obovate, vnth acute base and rounded summit, entire, coriaceous, 

 shining above, paler beneath, with the slender venation promi- 



