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O New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
angled or sulcate. Stipules nearly 1 cm. long, ovate, acuminate 
and acute, brown, thin, caducous. Petioles to 6 cm. or more 
long, slender, dilated at the base. Blades.1 to 1.5 dm. long, 
o 10 cm. broad, oval-ovate with sub-cordate, slightly oblique 
base and very abruptly short-pointed acute summit, finely 
crenate-dentate with minutely apiculate teeth and acute sin- 
uses, thin, deep-green “above, drying brownish beneath, the 
nely and strongly anastomosing. Spikes one or more in the 
axils, mostly sessile, 5 to 7 cm. long, rather loosely flowered, the 
bracts similar to the stipules, the upper successively smaller, 
the flower-clusters spheroidal, about 3 mm. broad. Plant in 
mature condition, apparently wholly pistillate. Seed reniform, 
brown, minutely muricate, 3-nerved along the convexity. 
"Cotana, near llimani, 2,550 meters altitude, November, 
1910. A shrub, 3 to 4 m. high." (Otto Buchtien, Bolivia, 
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Pilea macrophylla. 
Minutely puberulent under the microscope. Stems erect, 
elongated, stout but weak, irregularly and obtusely angled and 
costate. Leaves sessile, those of the pair somewhat unequal, 
7 to I5 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, lanceolate with narrowed 
base and regularly long, acuminate and acute summit thickish, 
dark dull green, serrulate with very acute teeth and sinuses, 
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pecimen unique. Collected by Miguel Bang, in Bolivia, 
without number, locality or date. 
Species near P. anomala Wedd. 
Sahagunia colombiana. 
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5 . long, 4 to 8 mm. broad, lance-linear 
din e margin obscurely and irregularly sinuate; 
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