New Species of South American Plants

Cedrela Boliviina. Inflorescence sparsely and minutely canescent. Leaves (only the uppermost seen) 5 dm. long, the petiole 1 dm. long, slightly grooved upon the upper surface, like the rachis, the leaflets sub-opposite, 7 to 9 pair, the internodes about a third as long as their leaflets. Petiolules very slender, about 6 mm. long, articulating by a thin, disk-like base. Blades 8 to 16 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. broad, the lower successively smaller, lanceolate, with mostly obtuse or sub-rotund base and long-acuminate summit, entire, thin, the slender venation lightly prominent beneath, the secondaries 15 to 20 on each side, abruptly dilated at the base, widely spreading, lightly curved and uniting to form a thin, brown revolute margin, the remaining venation very finely reticulate and faintly impressed on both sides. Panicle (much broken in my specimen) apparently as long as the leaves, distantly branched and very loose and open, the branches elongated, divariacate or the lower declined, pedunculate and loosely flowered, the flowers shortly and stoutly pedicelled,the bractlets broadly ovate, acuminate or attenuate, longer than the young buds. Calyx campanulate, 2 mm. broad and nearly as long, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes rounded. Corolla pilose, twice the length of the calyx, the upper petals very thick. Disk 5-lobed. Filaments very slender, short, the anthers oval, nearly as broad as long, compressed. Style stout, the stigma discoid and peltate, very large. Staminodia not apparent.