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portion, which is finely nmny-nerved, truncate, with six ex- 

 tremely short lobes. Corolla minutely gray-downy on both sur- 

 faces, the tube 1 cm. long, stout, enlarged above, the lobes 1 cm. 

 long, ovate, acutish, thick. Fruit nearly spheric, 4 cm. broad, on 

 a stipe 5 mm. long and 1 cm. l)road, dark-brown, glabrous, bear- 

 ing the persistent calyx-tube, about 5 mm. long and broad, with 

 a thick epigynous disk at its base. Pericarp crustaceous. Seeds 

 imbedded in a pulp of peculiar, sweet and slightly acid agreeable 

 flavor, the seeds lenticular, slightly obovoid, 7 mm. long, light- 

 brown. 



Eurrenabaciue, 1,000 feet, 0. E. White, January 27, 1922 {no. 

 2354). "A tree 30 to 40 feet high, in wet forest, and cultivated. 

 Flowers bright creamy-white. Finit much eaten by the natives, 

 and tastes like axle-grease." 



No. 2344, from the same locality, is the same in young fruit, 

 which is called "Tutumilla" and is chocolate-colored when ripe. 

 The young fruit is minutely muricate or granular. 



Chomelia brevicorxu Kusby, Bull. Torrey Clul) 52: 140. 

 1925. {No. 1282.) 



Chomelia multiflora Rusbv, Bull. Torres* Clnb 52: 141. 

 1925. {No. 1365.) 



Mapouria (?) rigida 



Glabrous, the branchlets rather stout, more or less rough- 

 ened by the modified lenticels, very leafy. Stipules entire, 

 acutish, about 5 mm. long, thick and rigid, deciduous and leaving 

 a short-fimbricate, brown base. Petioles 5 to 8 mm. long, grad- 

 ually broadening into the blades, Avhich are 6 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 

 6 cuL broad, oblong, oval or slightly oblanceolate, with abruptly 

 short-acuminate base and summit, acute or acutish, entire, thick- 

 ish, rigid, the lower surface pallid, the venation slender, the sec- 

 ondaries about 10 or 12 on each side, widely spreading, then 

 strongly falcate, the venation sparse, loosely anastomosing. 

 Panicle terminal, lax, short and broad, about as long as the 

 peduncle. Bractlets minute, subulate. Pedicels very short, 

 stout, continuous with the short-turbinate calyx-tube, which is 

 about 0.5 mm. long, the abruptly spreading, very short-toothed 

 limb about 1 mm. broad. Corolla tliickish, the tube campanulate- 

 cylindraceous, 1 imn. long, slightly 5-angled, the throat cam- 

 panulate, slightly longer and twice as long as broad, the lobes 

 longer than the throat, ovate, acutish, at length strongly re- 

 curved. Stamens attached at the base of the throat, the fila- 



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