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COCCOCYPSELUM GLABRUM. sp. nov. Herba ascendens, caulibus 
acutangulis glabris, 15-20 cm. altus. Petiolus 1 cm. longus; 
stipulae subulatse; folia ovato-lanceolata, acuta, basi obtusa, 
4- 6 cm. longa, 2-3 cm. lata, glabra; inflorascentia capitata, 
5- 10 mm. diametro; pedunculus 2 cm. longus; bacca 2 mm. 
diametro. 
Yungas, 4,000 ft. (2479). The same as Matthew’s Nos. 850 
and 1943 from Peru, Herb. Kew. 
Hamelia patens , Jacq. Stirp. Amer. 74, t. 50. Mapiri, 5,000 ft. 
(2105). 
HOFFMANNIA BRACHYCARPA, sp. nova. Ramis adscendentibus 
vel erectus obtusangulis; foliis breve petiolatis vel sessilibus, 
obovatis, apice acuminatis basi cuneatis, supra glabris, subtus 
minute ferrugineo-pubescentibus, 20-30 cm. longis, 7-8 cm. 
longis, margine integris; inflorascentia axillaris, pedunculi 
gracili, 2 cm. longi; corolla ovarium aequale ; bacca 2 y 2 mm. 
longa 2 mm. lata. Yungas, 4,000 ft. (2522). 
Bertiera Guianensis, Aubl. Guian. i. 180, t. 69. Guanai, 2,000 ft. 
(2118). 
Posoqueria longiflora , Aubl. Guian. i. 134. t. 51. Junction of the 
Rivers Beni and Madre de Dios (2220). 
Basaiiacantlia spinosa (Jacq.), Schum. in Mart. FI. Bras. vi. Pars, 
vi. 2, 376. Junction of the Rivers Beni and Madre de Dios 
(2157) (Pandia glabrescens, Spruce). 
Genipa Americana , L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 251, var. latifolia, Spruce, 
Herb. Kew. Junction of the Rivers Beni and Madre de Dios 
(i 8 g 9 )- 
Chomelia paniculata , Benth. in Herb. Kew. Junction of the 
Rivers Beni and Madre de Dios (1878); Mapiri, 2,500 ft. 
(2117). 
Chomelia , sp. Falls of the Madeira, Brazil (1490). I determined 
this at Kew as “ C. pubescens , Benth” but there is a C. pubes- 
cens , C. & S. described in Schumann’s Rubiaceae of the Brazil 
Flora, p. 36, with which the plant does not agree. 
Chomelia , sp. Guanai, 2,000 ft. (26,^)- 
Coffea Arabica , L. Unduavi, 8,000 ft. Cultivated. (1900). 
Coussarea , apparently undescribed. Junction of the Rivers Beni 
and Madre de Dios (2402). 
Coussarea , sp. Beni River (2677) collected in fruit only. 
