New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 17 
5 to IO cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, oblong- "er uei. with the 
in ma 
d with those of the adjacent secondar Racemes long and 
| slenderly 2 costi elongated and EN, flowered, the bracts 
subulate and pungent, erect, about mm. long.  Pedicels 
about r on as slender, terete, lightly bis toward the 
summit. Sepals and petals similar, about 6 m ong, ovate, 
obtuse, thiclish. Glands of the petals small and Roce together, 
exten to slender Pria Stamens shorter than the 
petals, the filaments shorter than the s, very stout, 
oblong i rm onnective of anther prolonged into a short, 
the ovary oval, its width two-thirds of its length, the stigma 
discoid, nearly as wide as the ovary, obscurely lobed. 
Unduavi, Bolivia, 10,000 feet October 1885 (Rusby No. 
508), and Buchtien (No. 2845), November 1910. 
usby's specimens (the type) were distributed somewhat 
doubtfully as B. quindiuensis H. B. K., but the additional col- 
lections of Buchtien show the species to be distinct. 
px pem tomentocarpa. 
Lower leaf-surfaces, etc., very finely cinereous, the inflores- 
cence dd ruits gray- -tomentellate. Stems twining, woody, 
ratier stout, terete, finely striate. Petioles 6 to 10 cm. long, 
very slender, terete, striate, the blades thickish, 10 to 18 cm. 
long, 5 to 10 cm. b , ovate with truncate base and with an 
short, acute acumination the summit, entire, sub- 
glabrous above, where the venation is more or less impressed, 
cinereous underneath, where the venation is sharply prominent 
and coarsely reticulate, 3-ribbed, the laterals starting from the 
base rib, perhaps with another faint pair near t 
margi all connected by str tish; d cate secondaries 
d t 
and stoutly pedic elled. Fruit. couiater!. compressed, 2.5 
cm. long, — bip us or a fourths as broad, the margin 
thickened, tw wide on one side as on the other, the thick 
seed aviar at half oF the breadt 
an Buena Ventura, Bolivia, 1400 ien. November 22, 1901 
(R. S. Williams, No. 616). 
No. 562, from ee 1800 feet, January 16, 1902, “a 
low vine" is, I think, the same. It has-narrower leaves, only 
