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16 NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
the tube. Stamens 3, their tube crateriform, 2 mm. broad. 
Anthers as broad as long. Fruit (mature ?) 4 mm. long and 
nearly as broad, obovoid, slightly compressed, the base con- 
stricted, the summit bearing a black tubercle about one-fourth | 
the width of the fruit and minutely muricate. | 
"Stems becoming diffuse, to 2 feet long. Local in forest | 
and clearings, in damp ground below 1000 feet. Collected near 
Bonda, 150 feet, October 1 5." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
69.) 
Glabrous, the branches very stout, terete, the branchlets 
. Blades 3 to 6 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. broad, oval with i 
the as abruptly and slightly produced and the summit rounded, : 
teeth and rounded sinu 
No. 569. 
Berberis ovalifolia. 
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stipe, oval, the stigma discoid, concave, more than half as 
wide as the ovary. 2 
| “A shrub, 114 meters high, at Unduavi, North Yungas, 3300 | 
M., November, 1910. (Buchtien, No. 2844.) 
Berberis densifolia. 
Glabrous, the branches stout 
: ; terete, the branchlets short, 
very thick and stout, and ve 
m my specim Stipules d dy bro S eo | 
cimen. ipules densely i i an 
lets, blackish, broa Y bur Quee 
terminal, mostly recurved 
body, rigid, the strong mi 
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seta which is nearly as long ; 
drib more or less 3-nerved. Leaves 
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