TROPICAL AMERTCAX RUBTACE.E 341 



Palicourea perquadrangalaris, sp. nov. Frutex glaber semper- 

 virens, ramulis gracilibus cum ramis mox valicliusculis laevibus 

 striatalis recte quadrangularibus angulis nonnunquam fere subalatis. 

 Folia majuscula ampla chartacea elliptica utrinque acuminata apice 

 subacuta basi in petiolum nonnunquam longiusculum angustata, 

 utrinque nisi subtus in venis prsesertim centrali hirta glabra, 

 utrinque venosa, venis approximatis lateralibus primariis utrinque 

 ca. 16 ; stipulcd vaginam persistentem formantes insuper utrinque 

 2-aristatam, aristis distantibus vaginam sub?equantibvis. Flores 

 glabri parvi tamen latiusculi, plerumque longe pedicellati, in th^^rso 

 amplo nonnunquam elongato dispositi laxiusculo, bracteis parvis 

 setaceis paucis inconspicuis, in alabastro ovato-fusiformi apice sub- 

 obtusi. Calyx brevis tubo supra basin tubulari angusto insuper in 

 limbum ampliusculum subito ampliatus, lobis latis o vat is obtusis 

 brevibus corolla? basin tumidum arete amplectentibus. Corolla brevi- 

 uscula tubo validiusculo insuper vix ampliata, apice brevissime lobata. 



Venezuela: F uncle and Schlim 542! PrOv, Tovar, Merida, in 

 moist shady woods, flowering in May and June, Moritz 848 ! Caracas, 

 Linden 281 ! Muna, Pearce 12 ! 



Distinct in its square stems and small blunt oval buds on long deli- 

 cate pedicels ; allied apparently to P. petiolaris, but readil}^ separated 

 by the foregoing characters. Leaves 12 em. x 4-5 cm. to 25 cm. x 

 8 cm. ; with petioles to 2 cm. or longer. >S'^^); 2/ /(°- sheath 5-10 mm., 

 the aristae of about the same length. Lnflorescence 12 cm. or longer, 

 and 12 cm. in diameter at the base. Total calyx 2'5-3 mm. long, 

 the narrow lower part about 1'5 m.m. C'oro//rt-tube 6 mm. long, 

 3 mm. in widest part ; lobes 1 mm. long. 



(To be continued.) 



^ NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL HERBAEIUM.— IV. 



Bt James Beittex, F.L.S. 



(For preceding Notes see Journ. Bot. 1907, 313 ; 1909, 41 ; 1915, 272.) 



Clematis rosea. 



Ix a paper on " Smith's Oeorgian Plants " (Journ. Bot. 1898, 

 302) I followed Smith (Insects of Georgia, ii. 201) in identifying 

 C. rosea of Abbot's drawings with a plant from Kew Gardens in 

 the Banksian Herbarium which Smith, adopting Abbot's name, 

 described as a new species. Abbot lettered his original drawing 

 " Clematis Eosea Nova sp. C. Reticulata Walt. Flo. Carol. 18G," but 

 Smith in reproducing this added a query to each of the names — a 

 misleading alteration ; Smitli's figure by no means accurate!}' repro- 

 duces Abbot's drawing, but even as altered this does not strikingly 

 resemble C. crispa, the name attached to the Banksian specimen in 

 Solander's hand. On looking again into the matter, I am quite 

 unable to discover upon what grounds Smith based his conclusion as 

 to the identity of the Kew Garden j^lant with Abbot's figure. On 

 this assumption, however, he rejected Abbot's association of his plant 

 with Walter's C reticulata, mainly on the ground that the fruit of 



