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MEMOIRS OF THE 2^EW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



petiolules 6 to 12 mm. long, the blades 5 to 10 cm. long by 1.5 to 

 4 cm, broad, the outer successively smaller, oblanceolate, the 

 base regularly acuminate, the summit abruptly short-pointed, 

 acute or obtuse ; membranaceous, thin, entire, the midrib and 

 secondaries, about l.j on each side, slender and sharp beneath, 

 the venation strongly reticulate. Cymes lateral, numerous, 

 short-peduncled, few-flowered, the slender pedicels very un- 

 equal. Flowers bright-blue, not collected. Calyx of the young 

 fruit crateriform to subhemi spherical, lightly o-nerved and re- 

 ticulate-veiny, loosely subtending the fruit, the margin shallowly 

 5-crenate, each lobe bearing a minute mucro. Fruit ovoid or 

 slightly obovoid when young, ellipsoidal when mature, purple- 

 )3laek, oily and sweetish, and of peculiar flavor, and as large as a 

 small olive. 



This becomes a good-sized, densely leafy tree, called Aceihino 

 del monte (wild olive) and Anacaliuita. The fruit is greedily 

 eaten by children, and the bark is used in the treatment of rheu- 

 matism. Collected in fruit at Rurrenabaque, Bolivia, November 

 1921. A tree of the same name and supposedly the same was 

 seen in flower at Santa Ana on the Bopi Eiver, three months 

 earlier. It was densely covered with flowers, before the appear- 

 ance of the leaves {no 767). Also collected by Williams at 

 Ixiamas, Boli^da. Species near F, gigantea H. B. K., which is 

 a ferruginous-tomentellate species. 



Lamtaceae 

 Hyptis canaminensis 



Scabrous, the inflorescence gray-pubescent. Stems erect, 

 tall, slender, apparently simple or little-branched, obtusely 

 quadrangular, the sides sulcate, often red-purple. Petioles 2 to 

 3 cm. long, slender, subterete. Blades to 8 cm. long and 3 cm. 

 broad, lance-ovate with more or less cuneate base, acuminate and 

 acute, coarsely and sharply serrate, thin, pale-green, shortly 

 gray-hairy and somewhat rough beneath, finely scabrous above, 

 the secondaries 5 to 8 on each side, strongly ascending and 

 nearly straight, slender, prominent beneath. Heads slenderly 

 racemose, the racemes axillary and in a terminal panicle, longer 

 or shorter than their leaves, slenderly peduncled, the lower por- 

 tion of the rachis leafy-bracted, the racemes interrupted. Heads 

 at length shortly peduncled, 0.5 to 1 cm. broad, according to de- 

 velopment, about 5-flowered, the flowers sessile. Calyx about 5 



