244 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Fischeria blepharopetala Blake, sp. nov. 
Presumably a scandent shrub; stem stoutish, terete, fuscous or greenish, hispid with 
spreading septate sordid hairs with scarcely enlarged bases, and finely stipitate- 
glandular and hispidulous; leaves opposite, their blades 8.5 to 22.5 cm. long, 3.8 to 
11.5 cm. wide, elliptic, short-pointed (the narrow apex 4 to 6 mm. long), at base some- 
what narrowed and cordate, with the sinus closed or sometimes open, thin, entire, 
above dull green, evenly and rather densely hispid and hispidulous with incurved 
or somewhat spreading hairs, hispid along the midrib and veins, beneath rather 
densely pilose with spreading hairs with enlarged bases, along the veins hispid and 
stipitate-glandular, reticulate-veined beneath (lateral veins 7 to 9 pairs, arched- 
anastomosing toward the margin); petioles densely hispid and stipitate-glandular, 
1.2 to 3.5 em, long; peduncles solitary in the axils, hispid and stipitate-glandular, 
5.5 to 13 cm. long, bearing about 6 to 9 flowers in a racemosely arranged corymb, the 
pedicels 2 to 4 cm. long, pubescent like the peduncle; sepals 5, lance-subulate, acumi- 
nate almost from the base, ciliolate, sparsely hispid and glandular, 7.5 to 12 mm. long, 
1 to 3.5 mm, wide; corolla 1.6 to 2.1 em. wide, deeply 5-parted, the lobes elliptic- 
ovate, obtuse, slightly contracted at base, somewhat crisped, undulate-crested on 
one side below the apex, strongly veined, thinner toward the margins, long-ciliate, 
hispid-pilose outside, except on the membranous margin, and inside below the mid- 
dle; outer corona thick, fleshy, adnate to gynostegium and about half as high, suben- 
tire; inner corona of 5 thick fleshy deltoid-oval rounded lobes equaling the gynoste- 
gium; anther appendages deltoid, broadly rounded, appressed. 
Type in the U.S. National Herbarium, no. 537,379, collected at San Martin de Loba 
and vicinity, Lands of Loba, Department of Bolivar, Colombia, April or May, 1916, 
by H. M. Curran (no. 206), 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMEN EXAMINED. 
CoLomBia: Santa Marta, 1898-1901, Herbert H. Smith 2090. 
Smith’s specimens were distributed as F. calycina Decaisne. That species, how- 
ever, is described as having lanceolate-attenuate petals, puberulous on both sides and 
sulcate-plicate in the middle. 
Macroscepis barbata Blake, sp. nov. 
Scandent; stem stout, 2.5 to 3.5 mm, thick, densely puberulous and hispid-pilose 
with spreading several-celled fulvous hairs; leaves opposite, the blades 11.5 to 13.5 
em. long, 7.5 to 9 em. wide, broadly obovate-oval, abruptly short-pointed, narrowed 
from above the middle to a deeply cordate base, dark green-above, pale green beneath, 
thin and membranaceous, with 6 to 10 pairs of ascending lateral veins, rather densely 
hispid-pilose on both sides with fulvous hairs, these longer along the veins, somewhat 
harsh above, soft beneath; petioles stout, 1.5 to 1.8 em. long, densely pubescent like 
the stem, the short hairs glanduliform; umbels solitary in the axils, about 6-flowered ;pe- 
duncles 1 to 2 cm. long, pubescent like the stem; pedicels 6 to 8mm. long; bracts lance- 
subulate, acuminate, about 1 cm. long; calyx 5-parted almost to the base, the seg- 
ments ovate, acute, fulvous-setulose and glandular-puberulous on back, hispid- 
pilose on margin, glabrous within, 14 mm, long, 7.5 mm, wide; glands none; corolla 
salverform, greenish, the urceolate tube glabrous outside except for the sparsely 
hirtellous apex, inside glabrous except for the densely hirtellous apex, 12 to 14mm, 
long, 8 mm. in diameter; limb 5-lobed for about three-fifths the way to base, 2.8 to 3.5 
em. wide, with small orifice (about 2.5 mm. in diameter), sparsely hirtellous and 
glandular-puberulous outside, inside grading from densely papillose on margin to 
densely hirtellous at center, the lobes deltoid-ovate, emarginate at the broadly rounded 
apex, somewhat repand, dark green with narrow pale margin, 8 to 11 mm. long, 11 to 
13 mm, wide; corona adnate to the corolla tube, produced below the apex of the 
latter into 5 rounded, emarginate, somewhat bilobed and fluted, fleshy appendages 
alternating with the corolla lobes; anthers with deltoid-ovate, broadly rounded, 
