BLAKE—-NEW PLANTS FROM VENEZUELA, 5831 
usually exceeding the leaves, hirtellous and more sparsely spreading-hispid, 
sometimes bifurcate above; flowers corymbosely arranged; bracts filiform, 7 
mm. long; pedicels hirtellous and sparsely hispid, 2.5 to 3 cm. long; sepals 
nearly equaling the corolla, lance-ovate, 12 mm. long, $3 mm. wide at base, 
long-acuminate, hispidulous and sparsely spreading-hispid, spreading or some- 
what reflexed: corolla 2.8 cm. wide, white, deep green at base within, its lobes 
ovate, acute, strongly crisped at one side toward apex, short-hispid inside 
toward base, and outside ciliate on one margin; outer corona fleshy, about 
two-thirds as high as the gynostegium, its lower lobe obscurely sinuate, spread- 
ing, its upper slightly sinuate; inner corona of 5 fleshy rounded lobes; anther 
appendages deltoid, obtuse, appressed. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,065,086, collected on border 
of forest near Urama, along road from Puerto Cabello to San Felipe, Carabobo, 
Venezuela, June 20, 1920, by H. Pittier (no. 8904). 
ADDITIONAL SPECIMEN EXAMINED: 
VENEZUELA: Near Alpargatén, along road from Puerto Cabello to San 
Felipe, April 25, 1920, Pittier 8310. 
Related to Fischeria blepharopetala Blake, of Colombia, which has densely 
hispid petioles and a corolla only 2 em. wide, with elliptic-ovate obtuse long- 
ciliate lobes. 
Vincetoxicum lasiostomum (Decaisne) Blake. 
Gonolobus lasiostomus Decaisne in DC. Prodr. 8: 593, 1844. 
This species, originally described from Caracas, was collected by Mr. Pittier 
(no. 8858) at Guaremales, along road from Puerto Cabello to San Felipe. 
June 6, 1920. 
RUBIACEAE. 
Alseis leiantha Blake, sp. nov. 
Small tree, 8 to 10 meters high; stem stout, quadrangular, pithy, sulcate, 
at maturity grayish, the younger branches nigrescent in drying, glabrous; 
stipules of each side united, lanee-subulate, nigrescent, 2 cm. long, deciduous 
at maturity; petioles sparsely ciliate in youth, 5 to 12 mm. long; blades (the 
younger nigrescent in drying) narrowly elliptic-obovate, 14 to 18 cm. long, 2.5 to 
4.5 em. wide, acuminate, at base long-cuneate into the petiole, in youth sparsely 
ciliolate, glabrous above, beneath finely hirtellous on the veins, sparsely so on 
surface or glabrate, at maturity deep green and somewhat shining on both sides, 
glabrous except for tufts in the axils of the veins beneath, the veins 16 to 
26 pairs, prominulous beneath, the secondaries few, connecting them nearly 
at right angles; spikes precocious, about 20 cm. long, subtended by small 
leaves, densely flowered, the axis densely and sordidly pilose-tomentose, in 
age glabrescent ; bracts filiform-subulate, deciduous, about 2 mm. long; flowers 
sessile; hypanthium sordid-pilose chiefly below, obovoid, 3 mm. long; free por- 
tion of calyx 5-parted essentially to the base, 1.5 mm. long, the teeth lanceolate, 
glabrous, acute; corolla greenish-yellow, tubular-campanulate, 5.5 mm. long, 
glabrous outside, pilose within below the apex, the 5 teeth deltoid, subtrun- 
cate, 1 mm. long; stamens inserted at base of tube, at maturity long-exserted, 
the filaments densely pilose to above the middle, becoming 8 mm. long, the 
anthers papillose, apiculate, 1.8 mm. long; style exserted, glabrous, its un- 
divided portion 6.5 mm, long, the branches papillose; capsules clavate, gla- 
brescent, erect, 10 to 13 mm. long. 
Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1,065,081, collected in monsoon 
forest at Guaremales, along road from El Palito to San Felipe, Carabobo, 
Venezuela, altitude 10 to 100 meters, May 29, 1920, by H. Pittier (no. 8850). 
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