22 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
venation prominent, very finely reticulate so as to make the. 
surface pitted or tesselate, dryi g browni 
with few branches, on sl 
selves. Bractlets minute, the flowers sub-sessile 
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ovate, acuminate and acute. 
long as the staminodia, acute, entire. 
Pistillate flowers not seen. 
“A large tree in mountain forest 5 miles southeast of Don. 
Amo, 2,500 feet altitude, March 7-" (Herbert H: Smith," 
Colombia, No. 2104.) l 
Sparattanthelium sprucei. 
Coarsely hairy with rigid, d 
the branches stoutish, terete, the internodes about 2 cm 
Petioles about 12 mm. long, densely hairy, like the stem and 
principal veins, subterete, the blades 8 to r2 cm. lon 
wide, oblong, with rou 
ivaricate, ferruginous hairs, 
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e, or slightly prolate, [ 
mm. long. Calyx-tube very short. Sepals 5, the | 
outer smaller, oval, obtuse, thi 
) , thickish; anthers 5, slightly unequal, : 
sub-sessile, oval. Pistil not seen. Fruit 15 mm. long, 7 mm. f 
thick, lanceolate, acuminate and acute, 6 or 7 sulcate, minutely ` 
papillose, | 
"Near Tarapoto, eastern Peru, 1855-6.". (Spruce, No.- 
4222, a.) 
