NEW SPECIES OF SoUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 11 
sharply so beneath, the secondaries 10 or I2 on a side, rather 
minute, ciliate. Filaments about 1 mm. long, thick, the anther 
half as long, cordate or reniform 
| " A large tree in a damp Yorust. Don Amo Road, about 500 
feet, January 13." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 424.) 
iiem magnifica. 
Stems and petioles scabrous, the lower leaf-surfaces bright 
green. and minutely scabrellate, the upper cmn and apti 
d more l 
nate flowers 1.5 bro ad: when expanded, the 
sepals me “hyaline very licei c sub- equal, the 4 stamens sub- 
sessile, very a 
Pistillate oiai from very minute bracts, the pistil very 
villous, ho short stipitate, ovoid, acuminate, the style concealed 
t ai 
UA tres Hike shrub to 6 or 8 feet. Local in damp forest 
near streams, I,000 to 2,000 feet, December to January. Col- 
lected near Cacagualita, 1,500 feet, December 23." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1422.) 
Another specimen, from the Menca Road, 1,000 feet, con- 
sists of one leaf, which may be this species. It is 4 dm. long 
and 2.5. dm. broad, on a petiole 2 dm. long. 
Myriocarpa obscura. 
Pistillate Plant.—Younger portions minutely soft-gray- 
tomentellate, the lower leaf surfaces obscurely sparse-pilose, 
the upper clothed with cystoliths. Stems stout, red. Petiole 
to 2 cm. long, stoutish, dilated at the base. Blades 6 to I5 cm. 
