NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 39 
1532.) Apparently the same collected by Burchell, near Car- 
acas. 
Tetrapteris alloicarpha. 
abrous. Branchlets short, divergent or per: — 
slender, Bghty angled, very leafy. Petioles 5 o ng, 
channele ove, the stip wale very unit seat vr ape re 
Blades 6 to: IO cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, ovate with acute 
base and short-acuminate and acutish summit, thin, the slender 
venation slightly prominent on both surfaces, the secondaries 
about 6 on a side, ascending and lightly falcate, obscurely con- 
necting, the faint venation loosely reticulate. Panicles ter- 
minal, sub-sessile, much branched and the branches subtended 
by large, very thin brown bracts, having a stout greenish midrib 
and cordate, amplexicaul or sub-conna bases. Pedicels 
slender, 6 or 7 mm. long, strongly striate or sulcate, 2-bracteo 
late at the middle. Calyx 3 mm. long, 8-glandular. Claw of 
the petal 2 mm. long, reflexed, the limb 4 mm. long, 3 mm. 
broad, ovate with truncate base and rounded summit, not con- 
cave. Filament broad, thin, glabrous, as long as the claw, the 
anther oblong, half as - Ovaries short, pilose, the styles 
stout, as long as the stam 
"A tree to 30 feet, uico common in dry forests, 
mostly in low land near streams below 1000 feet. Collected 
near Bonda, 150 feet, July 10." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
No. 343.) This is the type. 
Another specimen of the same number, in fruit, collected 
near Bonda, January 4. In this, the formerly delicate brown 
bracts are green and leaf-like, up to 1.5 cm. long, broadly ovate. 
The body of the fruit is 7 mm. long, the upper wings strongly 
ascending, the longer more than 2 cm. long, the shorter nearly 
aslong. 7 mm. wide, oblong or a little wider above, the summit 
rounded, stoutly many-nerved, the nerves erect and branching 
above. Lower wings I cm. long, 6 mm. broad, oval or obovate 
with rounded summit. Middle wing of crest nearly 1 cm. long 
and as broad or broader, the summit somewhat hollowed out, 
the nerves straight. Lateral wings of crest small, broadly oval. 
LT 
Tetrapteris tenuistachys. 
Glabrous. aper n — slender terete, striate, 
reddish. Petioles 4 or 5 mm. long, stout, broadly chann elled 
above, not glandular, the pde 7 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. 
oad, lanceolate with acute base and long-acuminate an 
ummit, entire, thin, drying brownish, the venation very 
eder. lightly prominent on both sides, the secondaries 5 or 
