40 NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
6 on each side, strongly "ue lightly curved, connected 
by numerous crooked tertiaries and these by very numerou 
others. Racemes nilay, muc ioter than their leaves, 
slender, short-peduncled or sub-sessile, rather loosely flowered, 
the bracts at the base of the pedicels 1.5 to 2 mm. long, recurved, 
ovate, obtuse. Pedicels 5 mm. long, very slender, erect or 
spreading, 2- bracteolate at about the middle, the bractlets 
with rounded summit, faintly puberulent, brown or purple, 
thickish. Calyx 5 mm. broad, 10-glandular, the glands large. 
Petals 6 mm. long, the claw cue spreading, t the limb obovate, 
lightly concave, fimbriate, strongly carinate. Stamens half 
“A twining vine, to 20 or 25 feet, rare in e Hm forest, 500 
to 2,000 feet, January to May. Specimens from Don Amo 
road, 500 feet, February r." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
No. I ga 
No. 1527 ge es 800 feet, February 22, the “petals 
yellow”, is the s 
Securidaca a iden. 
nchlets, entire inflorescence, veins of the lower leaf- 
E. and of the body of fruit gray-puberulent and slightly 
in 
s un rtly 
petioled. Blades thickish, 2-7 cm. long, broadly ovate, diues 
cordate, the summit blunt or rounded, the margin n sub- -entire, 
very thinly revolute, the midrib slender and sharp underneath, 
i ut 8 
lightly anastomosing near the margi Glands blackish, at- 
tached. to lowest vein near the midrib. Racemes terminal, re- 
r d, n » the lower portion strongly nodose from the 
allen Sowers. Pedicels stoutish, about mm Flowers 
2 cm. long. Lowest sepal 5 mm long, obt 
erved, the lateral about two-thirds as long, broadly ovate, 
with rounded summit, the wing-sepals I2-15 mm. long, 6-8 
mm. broad, the body Age. obtuse, the lower third cu uneate. 
with rounded opie ud “ate org dd one sbiance t 
not including the narrow claw, nearly as wide, erect, lightly 
3-lobed, the madle k lobe short and broad, strongly appendaged 
