Neea delicatula Standl.

Neea delicatula Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 98
1916.
Branches slender, greenish-gray, glabrous, the branchlets slender, ferrugino-puberulent when young but soon glabrate, the internodes short; leaves mostly opposite, the petioles slender, 4-7 mm. long, the blades elliptic, elliptic-ob ovate, or oblong-oval, 2.2-6 cm. long, 0.9-2 cm. wide, cuneate to acutish at the base, abruptly acuminate at the apex with a narrowly triangular acutish or usually obtuse acumen, thin, deep-green, concolorous, glabrous and dull on the upper surface, sparsely rufo-puberulent beneath along the costa, the margins plane, the lateral veins obsolete or nearly so; peduncles of the staminate cymes 2.2-4.5 cm. long, terminal and axillary, nearly filiform, flexuous, glabrous, the cymes fewor many-flowered, 2-5 cm. wide, the flowers on slender pedicels 4-15 mm. long, the bractlets triangular-oblong, acute, 1 mm. long, puberulent, the perianth urceolate, acutish at the base, 4.5 mm. long,. 3 mm. wide, puberulent at the apex, elsewhere glabrate, minutely 5-dentate; stamens 7, the filaments very unequal, the anthers 1 mm. long; pistillate flowers and fruit not known.
Type locality: In forests on dry limestone around Alhajuela, Chagres Valley, Panama, altitude 30 to 100 meters.
Distribution: Panama.

Torrubia panamensis Standley, sp. nov
Pisonia Pacurero Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald 192. 1854. Not P. Pacurero H. B. K. 1817.
Branches slender, grayish-brown, the branchlets slender, densely ferrugino-puberulent, even in age, the internodes short; leaves opposite, very unequal, the petioles slender, 3-16 mm. long, densely ferrugino-puberulent, the blades oblong-obovate to oval-obovate, broadest above the middle, 5-8.5 cm. long, 2-3.8 cm. wide, cuneate-attenuate at the base, abruptly acute or cuspidate-acuminate at the apex, rarely obtuse or rounded, some of the blades often much reduced and only 5-10 mm. long, thin, deep-green, concolorous, glabrous, or sparsely puberulent beneath along the veins, the margins plane or obscurely revolute, the lateral veins evident, slightly arcuate, laxly anastomosing near the margins, the veinlets usually evident and finely reticulate; peduncles terminal, very slender, flexuous, sometimes pendulous, 2-4.5 cm. long, sparsely puberulent, the inflorescence loosely corymbose, 2-3 cm. broad, few-flowered, the pistillate flowers solitary, on slender, densely puberulent pedicels 1.5-3 mm. long, or a few of the flowers sessile, the bractlets linear, 1 mm. long; staminate perianth campanulate, 3 mm. long, puberulent; stamens 6, long-exserted ; pistillate perianth ellipsoid-oblong, 3 mm. long, constricted below the apex, ferrugino-puberulent.
Type collected on Taboga Island, Gulf of Panama, in May, 1911, H. Pitlier 3602 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 678658).
Distribution: Panama.