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MEMOIRS OF THE XEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



iiiiely grooved above, the secondaries 10 or 12 on a side, mostly 

 short-decurrent on the midrib on the upper surface, strongly fal- 

 cate-ascending, the venation loosely and strongly reticulate. 

 Panicles short or elongated, lax, long-peduneled like the 

 brandies and branchlets, the sul)ulate acute spreading or re- 

 curved braetlets mostly about equaling the calyx. Flowers 

 mostly two together, sessile or subsessile. Cahrx little more 

 than 1 mm. long and broad. 



Corolla 6 or 7 mm. long, and half as broad, the lower third of 

 the tube cylindric, only a third as wide as the campanulate 

 upper two thirds, the short triangular-ovate obtuse teeth thick- 

 ened and inflexed. Stamens attached at the base of the campan- 

 ulate portion, the filaments very short, the anthers linear, ex- 

 tending to the base of the corolla-teeth, the filaments attached a 

 little above the base. Style al)out ecpialing the stamens, some- 

 what clavate, stout, the branches about a fourth of the total 

 length. 



Rurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, November 2G, 1921 

 {no. 1852). Species apparently near P. luxurians Rusby. 



Psychotria viburnifolia 



Pubescent, the upper leaf-surfaces shining. Branchlets 

 weak, crooked, gray-brown, the lenticels much elongate trans- 

 versely and very narrow. Stipules interpetiolar, single, ovate, 

 5 mm. long and broad, deciduous, leaving a shortly fimbriate 

 base. Petioles 5 to 8 mm. long, stout, grooved above, the blades 

 1 to 1.5 dm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, thick and rigid, oblong, mostly 

 inequilateral and slightly falcate, acute at both ends, gray-pubes- 

 cent beneath, especially on the veins, shining above, where the 

 midrib and secondaries are narrowly impressed, these strong 

 and prominent beneath, the secondaries about 6 or 8 on each 

 side, strongly ascending, the venation slender, crooked and 

 coarsely reticulate. Inflorescence short-paniculate or cor^^n- 

 bose, the panicles small, long-peduncled, the bracts subulate, 

 acute, very small. Flowers not present. Fruiting pedicels short, 

 thick, strongly angled. Young fruit short-ovoid. Cah'x-teeth 

 short, incurved, subulate. 



Rurrenabaque, 1,000 feet, M. Cardenas, December 1, 1921 

 {no. 1891). 



FARAMEA 



This genus, which is very abundant in the Bolivian Andes, 

 has come to be abundantly represented in herbaria, especially in 



