1957] BOTANY OF THE PHELPS' VENEZUELAN GUAYANA EXPEDITIONS— II 479 



pannoso-fulvo-tomentosis, nervis lateralibus 6-7-jugis prorainentibus brunneis 

 costisque exceptis; petiolo ca. 2 mm longo, crasse puberulo-eglanduloso ali- 

 quantum rugoso transverse rimosoque; stipulis ca. 2 mm longis, falcato-subulatis 

 crassis puberulis caducis nodo adnatis; inflorescentiis spicatis fulvo-velutinosis 



1- 2 cm longis, bracteis minutis; floribus ca. 2.5 mm longis strigoso-velutinosis 

 sessilibus; fructibus 2.5-3.0 cm longis 1.5-2.0 cm latis, obovatis vestitis granulo- 

 compactis flavo-viridibus. 



TYPE: small tree to 8 m high, with pale green fruit, one of two tallest on 

 cumbre, immersed in dense shrub growth 1 m high, 1700 m alt., February 1-15, 

 1948, Uaipan-tepuf, Bolivar, Venezuela, 407 (NY). 



Licania hitchcockii belongs without question to the L. macrantha Hook. f. 

 complex, but has become sharply differentiated, most conspicuously by the small 

 elliptic leaves and short spicate inflorescences. 



POLYGALACEAE 



Monnina uaipanensis Wurdack, sp. nov. (Fig. 120.) 



Frutex; ramis juvenilibus sparse patenti-hirsutulis glabrescentibus; foliis 

 coriaceis ovalibus vel subobovatis, 4-6 cm longis 2-3 cm latis, apice rotundato 

 vel subacuto base cuneata vel rotundato-cuneata margine anguste revoluta , 

 juvenilibus strigulosis glabrescentibus (per venulis exceptis); raceni pauci 



2- 3-aggregati bracteis inconspicuis (ad 1.4 mm longis) caducis; floribus 4.5-5.0 

 mm longis, pedicello 1.0-1.2 mm longo puberulo; sepalis exterioribus dorso 

 puberulis duobus inferioribus 1.3-1.5 mm longis ovatis 1/3-1/2 connatis 1-3- 

 nerviis, sepalo superiore 2.0-2.1 mm longo 1.5-1.6 mm lato 5-nervio, alis 4.5-4.8 

 mm longis 3.7-3.8 mm latis obovato-suborbicularibus 7-nerviis glabris marginibus 

 subtus ciliolatis; carina 4.7t-4.8 mm longa 3.0-3.2 mm lata extus sparse puberula; 

 petalis lateralibus marginibus lateralibus ciliatis extus puberulis intus marginibus 

 lateralibus puberulis marginibus apicalibus glabris; staminibus 8, filamentis 

 glabris vaginae margine ciliata extus costa media puberula aliter glabra; ovario 

 ca. 2.0 mm longo, glabro; stylo 2.8-3.0 mm longo, statim sed non subito geni- 

 culato glabro, base 0.5 mm apice 0.7 mm lato; stigmate apice superiore tubercu- 

 lato apice inferiore acuto; drupis ovalibus, 6 mm longis 4 mm latis glabris reti- 

 culars exalatis. 



TYPE: bush, rare, small purple flowers, grows straight up in single stalk 

 above nearby bushes, about 4 m high, cumbre 1900 m alt., Uaipan, Bolivar, 

 Venezuela, February 1-15, 1948, 368 (NY). Paratype: Uaipan, 1600 m alt., 

 Cardona 2006. 



Related to M. cacumina N. E. Brown and M, duidae Blake, but distinguishable 

 from the former by smaller flowers and oval leaves, from the latter by larger 

 leaves, and from both by the style which is immediately but not abruptly genicu- 

 late above the ovary. In both related species, the basal part of the style is 

 erect to semi-erect for a distance of 0.6-1.2 mm above the ovary. 



AQUIFOLIACEAE 



Ilex brevipetiolata Steyermark & Wurdack, sp. nov. (Fig. 119.) 



Arbor ad 10 m alta; ramulis longitudine striato-subsulcatis sub lente pulve- 

 rulo-pilosulis; foliis perbreviter petiolatis, petiolo 1-2 mm longo, crasso rugoso, 

 laminis integris glabris crasse coriaceis ovalibus vel subobovatis, apice obtuso 

 subrotundato vei perbreviter apiculato, base subobtusa vel rotundata, 4.0-6.0 

 cm longa 2.8-4.2 cm lata, subtus modice punctulatis; costa media supra tenuiter 

 insculpta vel plana subtus expressa, nervis lateralibus utrinque 6-10 supra 



