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New SPECIES OF SoUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 9 
. Pouzolzia platyphylla. 
inutely strigose and lightly scabrous, only the short top 
of a single branch seen, this being slender, herbaceous and very 
leafy. Stipules 5 mm. long, brown, attenuate. Petioles 1 to 
8c ong, flat, rinde nerved. B 02 ong, 5 to 
. so t inequilateral, with broadl 
cm. wide, ovate, mewha 
rounded and slightly produced base and very abruptly short- 
acumin and acute summit, very thin, deep-green, the prin- 
cipal secondaries of the midrib about 2 on each side, the lateral 
CE 
few-flowered. P iNewers all ri cd Stigma very m sessile, 
oblique. Akene 1.5 mm. long, nearly as broad, acute, much 
compressed, smooth and shining, thinly said whitish. 
Perigone minutely pilose, nerved. 
"A shrub to 5 feet. Rare in sandy and somewhat arid 
regions near sea-level, and not far from the coast. Collected 
on low hills, 7 miles east of Cienaga, September r1." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1429.) 
Pouzolzia petiolata. 
Softly pilose throughout, the hairs of the upper leaf-surfaces 
sparse, short, stron ngly appressed. Stipules s 4 mm. long, ovate, 
necting with the lateral nerves, and similar transverse veins 
connecting the secondaries, the nerves rather broad and flat, 
les dense 
3-striate. Glomerules 3 to 5 mm. broad, 
Staminate Flowers.—About 4 mm. long, ae merous, the 
sepals ovate, acuminate, crede concave or saccate, not pli- 
cate, puberulent. Pis tillate Flower.—Ve ew, smaller than 
the stam me Tr developed, the perigone much like that 
of the stam 
TA ipo * 8 feet. Generally in dry ravines in dry forest 
region, below 1,500 feet. Collected at Bonda, 150 feet, July 
25. Variety of 1434 ?" (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
1435.) 
ES sordida. 
yish-pilose throughout with appressed hairs, the upper 
leaf- aries sparsely so. Stems stout, more or less obtusely 
