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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



8 to 10 on eacli side, slender, lightly prominent on both sides, 

 widely spreading, little curved, the venation obscure. Calyx- 

 tube wanting, the lobes lanceolate, acute. Corolla fleshy, pilose, 

 the tube 6 mm. long, filiform, the lobes 5 (occasionally 6), 2 or 

 3 nun. long, widely spreading, lance-ol)l()ng, strongly and sharply 

 mucronate, the sinuses broad, obtuse. Stamens wanting. Stig- 

 mas exserted, large, capitate, 2-lobed. Fruit (immature) oval, 

 more than 1 cm. long and nearly as broad, brown, minutely 

 downy, tipped by the persistent calyx, much wrinkled and ap- 

 parently fleshy and larg^er when fresh. 



In the gorge of the Bopi Eiver, 3,000 feet, R. H. Rushy, Sep- 

 tember 9, 1921 {no. 555). A small tree on the river bank, the 

 white flowers very fragrant. 



So far as can be determined from the material at hand, Wil- 

 liams, 527, from Tmnapasa, 1,800 feet, December 13, 1901, is of 

 this species. This specimen bears the mature fruit, which is 

 nearly spheric, 2 cm. long and slightly broader, finely verrucose, 

 the calyx wanting and the summit bearing an undulate annulus 

 which is probably the disk, but may be the base of the calyx-limb. 



Basanacantha macrocarpa 



(Fruiting specimen.) Principal veins of the lower leaf sur- 

 faces roughisli with few very short hairs. Branchlets slender, 

 rigidly ascending, terete, gray, some spinose when young. Stip- 

 ules 3 to 4 mm. long, thick and rigid, ovate, keeled, the keel ex- 

 tended into a pungent awn that is sometimes as long as the body. 

 Petioles 3 mm. to 1 cm. long, margined. Blades 4 to 7 cm. long, 

 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, oval or slightly obovate, with slightly pro- 

 duced acute base and obtuse summit, entire, thin but rigid, pale- 

 green, the midrib and secondaries lightly prominent on both 

 sides, the latter G to 8 on a side, strongly falcate, the venation 

 obscure. Fruiting pedicel 3 cm. long, stout, rigid and straight, 

 spreading, thickened upward. Fruit nearly 6 cm. long, 1.5 cm. 

 broad, oblanceolate, 10-costate, the ribs slender, the short-tubu- 

 lar portion of the calyx-limb persistent, the lobes broken off in 

 my single specimen. Fruit 2-celled, many-seeded, the seeds hori- 

 zontally attached to the thin septmn, compressed, imperfectly 

 triangular, nearly 1 cm. long and more than half as broad, dark 

 reddish-brown, the surface minutely granular. 



Kurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, October 12, 1921 {)io. 

 1261). "A shrub in the forest." 



