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Three Hundred New Species of South 
American Plants 
Xanthosoma (§ Acontiam) bilineata. 
Glabrous. Corm 3.5 cm. broad, 2 2.5 cm. high, the roots 
ense on sides and base. Petioles about 4.5 dm. long, the lower 
half gradually dilated and sheathing at the base. Blade 1 I5 to 
long, 7 to wide, heart me ovate, acutish, the base 
somewhat angular or lightly hastate. Leaf thin, the primaries 
broad, flat, the secondaries of the middle lobe abo n 
side, of the lateral about 10, somewhat decurrent on the pri- 
mary, widely spreading, little curved, the marginal line double; 
a strong undulating on e 3 mm. from the margin, a more slender 
one at the margin, the intervening fine venation very loose and 
slender. Peduncle (only one seen) 18 cm. long, stout, erect. 
Tube of spathe 3 cm. long, 12 mm. wide, as pressed, the limb 
8 cm. long, 2 cm. broad in fm clos ed ies pressed nl acumin- 
ate and acute, white. Dissection material wantin 
"Spathe white. In a plantain patch, shady mat an 
in a damp place at Onaca, 2500 feet. Abundant, August 16.”’ 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 2475.) 
Tillandsia (§ Pseudocatopsis) triangularis. 
More or less finely furfuraceous, especially above. pe 
bases icem a dense imbricated mass, 8 cm. broad, 10 
high; bindet flat, 3 cm. wide, abruptly contracted es 
the leaves which are 7 to 12 cm. long, and about 4 to 6 mm. 
distichous, thick, about 3 to the cm. Floral bract 6 long 
a oad, obovate with sub-truncate, minutely mucronulate 
E it, about 20-nerved alyx 5 long, the sepals ovate, 
scure. Corolla and stamens 5 mm. long, the petals oval with 
rounded summit, nearly twice the length of the stamens, the 
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