{ have named this beautiful novelty in honor of my 
mother, Maude Bagley Schultes. 
Cotombia: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Karurti (tributary of Rio 
Vaupés), Mesa de Yambi, quartzite savannah Goo-ran-hoo-da. Alt. 
about 950 feet. General location: Lat. 1°20’ N, Long. 71°20/ W. 
**Flowers fragrant, with scent of strawberries, white, base of tube red 
outside, becoming dark purple at very base, often very pale pink even 
half way up tube. Stigmas bright yellow. Plants in clusters, much- 
branched, leaves all short, marginal hairs very prominent. Plants 
many-flowered. Basal diameter at ground up to 34-4 inches. Kubeo 
name =dd-ko-ree.’’ April 15-16, 1953. Richard Evans Schultes & Isidoro 
Cabrera 19120 (Type in Herb. Gray). 
LORANTHACEAE 
Psittacanthus peronopetalus Michler in Martius 
I'l. Bras. 5, pt. 2 (1868) 81, t. 9, fig. 4. 
This species has not hitherto been collected from Co- 
lombia. The material cited in the original description 
‘ame from Manaos and ‘Teffé (ga) in Amazonian Brazil. 
Cotombia: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Naquieni, Cerro Monachi. 
June 1948, Richard Evans Schultes & Francisco Lépes 10086, 
M ALPIGHIACEAE 
Tetrapteris methystica R. 1. Schultes sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens robustior, trunco nigro cum cortice. 
Rami cinereo-fulvi, internodiis 4-10 cm. longis.. Ramuli 
teretes, obscurissime canaliculati, novellissimi minute 
incano-sericei vel leviter schistacei, 0.8—8.8 mm. in diam- 
etro. Folia firme papyracea vel chartacea, ovata, apice 
longiuscule acuminata, basi plerumque bene rotundata, 
margine integra sed saepe leviter revoluta, 6-8.5 cm. 
longa, 2.5-5 em. lata, valde discoloria, supra vivo viridia 
clara (sed siccitate glaucino-straminea), minute et remote 
sericea, subtus vivo cinereo-viridia, densius sericea et 
cerae lamina obtecta; nervis secundariis arcuatis, utrinque 
sex ad octo, supra prominulis, subtus prominentibus sed 
non conspicue elevatis, nervis tertiis inconspiculs, densis- 
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