52 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
extremely thin, bright-green, minutely pilose, the secondaries 
| about 8 or 9 on a side, very slender, crooked, widely spreading, 
mostly forked at about the middle. Involucres on elongated 
filiform peduncles, the tube green, about 1.5 mm. long an 
broad, turbinate-campanulate, the lobes very small, obscure, 
the petaloid appendages 4, sub-equal, oval or obovate, finely 
nerved, more or less bifid. Stamens exceeded by the erect 
petaloid appendages, the globose anther-cells separated.  Pis- 
tillate flower long exserted, the peduncle very slender. Ovary 
obovoid, the summit depressed, the styles stout, distinct, parted 
Capsule 2 or 3 mm. long, the seed black, strongly 
. to the base. 
longitudinally mammillose-tuberculate. 
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"Suffruticose, 4 to 6 feet, erect-branching. Common 
locally in dry forest and clearings below 500 feet, September 
to November, or later. Collected in dry forest in low hills 8 
miles east of Cienaga, 300 feet, September 11.” (Herbert H. 
Smith, Colombia, No. 359.) 
Ilex imbricata. 
. Branehlets roughened with coarse trichomes, which are scale- 
like at the base i i ] 
Stipules and bracts subulate, very s lowers solitary or 
two or three on the peduncle, the pedicels about as long as the 
petioles, thickened toward the summi wide, 
crateriform, the sepals ovate, acute or obtuse. Corolla about 
twice the length of the sepals, the lobes rounded, and a little 
longer than the stamens, the anthers as broad or broader than - 
ong. Ovary ovoid, as long as the calyx, the stigma capitate, 
sessile, very large. Fruit globose, venose, 4 or 5 mm. broad, 
2-sulcate, tipped by the very short broad stigma. 
A tree of 3 m. at Unduavi, Bolivia, 3,300 M. altitude, 
November, 1910. (Otto Buchtein, No. 2934.) 
Salacea sphaerocarpa. 
Glabrous, the branchlets stout, terete, leafy. Petioles about 
6 mm. long, stout, grooved above, m Blades 
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prominent beneath, the princi 
side, very strongly falcate and scarcely connecting at the mar- 
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