1920.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 153 



Type, moist depression in llano east of Villavicencio, Meta, alti- 

 tude about 450 meters, collected in flower and fruit, August 28 and 

 September 2, 1917, F. W. Pennell 1460, in herbarium New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Moist soil, in llanos, at an altitude of 450 meters, Tropical zone, 

 in Meta. 



5. Caconapea conferta Pennell, sp. nov. 



Stem .5-1.8 dm. tall, obscurely four-angled, below glabrous, above 

 puberulent with sessile yellowish glands. Leaves 1-2 cm. long, 

 .2-.4 cm. wide, narrowly lanceolate, tapering from the rounded- 

 clasping base, entire, densely glandular-dotted. Pedicels 1-5 in an 

 axil, less than 1 mm. long, puberulent with sessile glandular dots. 

 Bractlets fiiiform-subulate, less than 1 mm. long. Sepals denselj^ 

 glandular-puberulent, each tipped with a tuft of white hairs : outer- 

 most 3 mm. long, narrowly ovate; two median narrower and one- 

 sided, these three acuminate; two innermost 2.5 mm. long, lanceolate- 

 attenuate, somewhat hyaline-margined and more ciliolate. Corolla 

 3 mm. long; posterior lobes united f length; glabrous throughout; its 

 tube white, lobes violet-blue, darker distally within. Filaments 

 glabrous, bluish, the postero-lateral pair slightly shorter; anthers all 

 of about the same size, light-yellow. Style glabrous bearing two 

 stigmas. Capsule 2 mm. long, ellipsoid-oblong, glabrous, dehiscing 

 septicidally and loculicidally, none of the septum adhering to the 

 capsule-wall. Placentae narrow, thin, median to the persistent broad 

 septmn. Seeds .3 mm. long, cylindric, slightly irregularly curved, 

 rounded, brown, with fine longitudinal ridges. 



Type, moist depression, in llano east of Villavicencio, Meta, alti- 

 tude about 450 meters, collected in flower and fruit August 28 and 

 September 2, 1917, F. W. Pennell 1435; in herbarium New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Moist soil in llanos, at an altitude of 450 meters. Tropical zone, 

 in Meta. 



4. CONOBEA Aublet. 

 Conobea Aubl., Hist. PL Guiane Fr. 2: 639. pi. 258. 1775. 

 Type species, C. aquatica Aubl., of Guiana. 



1 . Conobea scoparioides (C. & S.) Benth. 



Sphaerotheca scoparioides Cham. & Schlechtd. in Linnaea 2: 606. 1827. 



"E Brasilia aequinoctiali misit Sellow." 

 Conobea scoparioides (C. & S.) Benth. in DC. Prod. 10: 391. 1846. 



