54 NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
reaching about half-way to the margin of the disk, the anther 
nearly twice as broad as long. Stigmas nearly equaling the 
filaments, the styles broad, subulate. 
Santa Catalina, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May, 1906. 
(Rusby and Squires, No. 420.) 
Hippocratea foliosa. 
' ing to slightly reflexed. , Blades 5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 5 cm. 
broad obtuse cusp at the summit, entire, thick, very pale-green, 
the finely and strongly reticulate venation prominent beneath, 
Cymes axillary an 
or longer than their leaves, stoutly peduncled, mostly ascending, | 
lowers shortly pedicelled, 1 cm. broad, 
3 mm. broad, ovate with rounded sum- 
adnate to ovary and base of flaments. Stamens 3, the subulate 
r g the style, the stigma of which is 
entire. Anthers 4-celled. 
“A vine, to 40 feet, occasional in dry forest below 1500 feet 
generally on river banks. Flowers in August and again in 
November. Specimens from near Bonda, August.” (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 893.) No. 894, from Masinga Vieja, 
800 feet, is the same. It has young fruits, which are dark 
\ pii obovate with truncate or lightly emarginate summit. 
Rhamnus atroviridis. s 
Branch lower leaf-surfaces and inflorescence finely 
tomentellate and more or less ferruginous. Branchlets short, 
4 to 8 mm 
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Ac 5 to 3 cm. broad, oval or oblanceolate, with 
is ed base and cuspidate acut summit, minutely serrulate, 
ick, dark-green above, yellowish beneath, finely reticulate, 
the principal veins j erneath. 
Flowers from solita 
edicels unequal, mostly recurved. Flow- 
zl esi 3 mm. long and broad, the calyx tube nearly hemi- 
Sp — " the teeth broadly triangular-ovate, acute, erect, 
€. Petals apparently wanting. Sta- 
