NEW SOUTH AMERICAN SPERMATOPHYTES OOL- 
LECTED BY H. M. CURRAN. 
By S. F. Buake. 
The following new species of flowering plants are described from 
collections made by Mr. H. M. Curran in the State of Bahia, Brazil, 
in 1915, and in the Department of Bolivar, Colombia, in the early 
part of 1916. The specimens collected are almost all shrubs or 
trees, and for the most part represent species of at least local econo- 
mic value. 
Dorstenia anthuriifolia Blake, sp. nov. 
Stem ascending from a creeping base, about 12.5 cm. long, 3 mm. thick, fuscous, 
finely pilosulous, sparsely clothed with the persistent stipules, not at all scabrous; 
leaves erect; stipules triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, persistent, erect, subcoria- 
ceous, subglabrous, oblique, 5 to 7 mm. long; petioles channeled and striate, glabrous, 
naked, 8.5 to 18 cm. long; leaf blades 16 to 17 cm. long, 6.7 to 7.3 em. wide, oval- 
oblong, short-attenuate, rounded or truncate-rounded at base, obscurely repand- 
denticulate especially at base and apex with blunt teeth, membranaceous, above 
dull green, apparently with a darker central area, obscurely papillate, beneath slightly 
paler green and glabrous, the veins about 10 pairs, whitish, flattened or slightly promi- 
nulous, anastomosing toward the margin; peduncles few, solitary in the axils, glabrous, 
striate, 7.5 cm. long; receptacle orbicular, flattish, centrally peltate, 1.4 cm. wide, 
minutely puberulous beneath, with crenate-denticulate margin, subgriseous-hispi- 
dulous on the upper surface between the intermixed male and female flowers. 
Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, no. 704,556, collected in forests of the Rio 
Grongogy Basin, State of Bahia, Brazil, at an altitude of 100 to 500 meters, October 
or November, 1915, by H. M. Curran (no. 130). 
This species finds its nearest relative in D. urceolata Schott, which is described as 
having scabrous stem, peduncles, petioles, and under leaf surface. 
Coussapoa curranii Blake, sp. nov. 
Woody liana, about 20 meters high; branches stout, finely hispidulous or glabrate, 
the bark grayish fuscous; leaves alternate, their blades 8 to 11.3 cm. long, 3 to 4.5 cm. 
wide, wedge-obovate, rounded or truncate-rounded, with usually emarginulate tip, 
narrowed from above the middle to the rounded base, thickish, pergamentaceous, 
entire, above light green, glabrous or nearly so, beneath paler, sparsely short-pilose 
with somewhat spreading hairs along the chief veins, glabrous or essentially so between 
them, the veins 7 to 11 pairs, straight, parallel (the lowest pair somewhat remote), 
impressed above, prominent beneath, the secondary and tertiary veins obscurely 
anastomosing, about equally inconspicuous above, the secondary beneath prominu- 
lous, the tertiary rather obscure; petioles stout, shallowly channeled above, subterete 
beneath, puberulous with somewhat spreading hairs, 1 to 2 cm. long; peduncles clus- 
tered at tips of branches, simple -or forked at apex, spreading-puberulous, 1.5 cm. 
long, bearing 1 to 4 heads; pistillate heads subglobose, many-flowered, 5 to 8 mm. 
in diameter; perigonium turbinate-subglobose, angled, densely hispidulous-puberu- 
lous on its exposed surface, 1.5 mm. long; drupes ellipsoid-subglobose, glabrous, 
foveolate, purplish brown above, pale below, 1.2 mm. long; style excentric. 
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