STANDLEY—TROPICAL AMERICAN PHANEROGAMS. 141 
Along with the type specimens Mr. Pittier collected a short branch of another and 
probably undescribed species. This has a densely pubescent inflorescence, oval 
leaves, and very small corollas, The material is too fragmentary for diagnosis. 
Palicourea heterantha Standley, sp. nov. 
Young branches stout, obtusely quadrangular, the lower internodes glabrous, the 
uppermost densely villous with multicellular hairs, or sometimes villous only along 
the angles; stipules united into a loose sheath 5 to 7 mm. long, each stipule bilobate, 
the lobes oblong-linear, acute, as long as the sheath or sometimes longer, glabrous, 
sometimes ciliate; petioles stout, 1 to 2 cm. long, villous; leaf blades obovate to 
broadly oval-obovate, 8 to 13 cm. long, 4.5 to 7 cm. wide, rounded at the apex and 
coarsely apiculate, the tip triangular, 3 mm. long, acutish or broadly cuneate at the 
base, subcoriaceous, dull green, slightly lustrous above and glabrous beneath, short- 
villous, especially along the veins; peduncles stout, 3 to 3.5 cm. long; inflorescence 
thyrsoid-paniculate, 5 to 6 cm. long and of about the same breadth, copiously 
branched, the branches stout, ascending or spreading, densely short-villous; bracts 
lanceolate or lance-ovate, 3 to 8 mm. long; pedicels stout, 1 to 4 mm. long; calyx 2 
mm. long, slightly longer than the ovary, deeply lobed, the lobes broadly ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, glabrous, bluish when dried; corolla 10 to 12 mm. long and 5 to 6 mm, 
in diameter, very gibbous at the base, the lobes very broad, rounded, thick and 
leathery, glabrous outside, sparsely villous within below the middle; stamens inserted 
at the middle of the corolla tube, the filaments short, the anthers included; fruit not 
seen. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 531296, collected on the headwaters 
of the Rio Lépez, Rio Palo Basin, Tierra Adentro, State of Cauca, Colombia, at an 
altitude of 2,500 to 3,000 meters, January, 1906, by H. Pittier (no. 1098). 
Althcugh the fruit has not been seen, there is little doubt that this plant is a mem- 
ber of the genus Palicourea. From the Colombian species previously described it 
is well distinguished by the very broad coroll1, the loose sheaths of the stipules, and 
the villous pubescence. Itisimpossible to state the color of the fresh flowers, but 
when dried they are bluish. 
Rondeletia secunda Standley, sp. nov. 
Shrub; young branches slender, glabrous, brown; stipules 4 to 5 mm. long, per- 
sistent, triangular, with a subulate apex; petioles stout, 3 to 7 mm. long, glabrous; 
leaf blades elliptic to elliptic-oval, 10.5 to 16 cm. long, 3.5 to 6.5 cm. wide, abruptly 
acuminate or subattenuate, obtuse or acutish at the base, firm, green, glabrous on 
both surfaces or sometimes with a very few short hairs along the veins beneath, the 
veins prominent, the lateral ones about 8 pairs; flowers numerous, secund and sub- 
sessile along the slender, spreading or scorpioid branches of the loose panicle, this 6 
to 7 cm. long and of about the same breadth, on a peduncle about 6 cm. long, the 
flowers rather distant upon the branches; branches of the inflorescence sparsely vil- 
lous, the bracts small, green, linear; calyx tube 1.5 mm. long, villous but not densely 
so, the 4 lobes linear or oblong-linear, green, sparsely pubescent, longer than the tube, 
sometimes twice as long, unequal, one of the lobes usually broader and longer than 
the others; corolla white, the tube slender, 10 to 12 mm. long, rather sparsely vil- 
losulous outside, the 4 lobes rounded, 3 to 4 mm. long, the throat naked; stamens 
inserted below the middle of the tube; stigma shortly 2-lobed; capsules 4 mm. high, 
bearing the persistent calyx lobes; seeds very small, light brown, favose. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 679392, collected in forests around 
Puerto Obaldfa, San Blas Coast, Panama, at an altitude of 50 meters or less, August, 
1911, by H. Pittier (no. 4279). 
Distinguished from the other species of Central America and northern South America 
by the secund arrangement of the flowers in the open panicles and by the glabrous 
leaves and long calyx lobes. 
