56 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
calyx, which in flower is 6 mm. high, lobed about hal wey E 
lobes triangular-ovate, acute, sub-hyaline with a dk E 
midrib and two fine green nerves. Corolla 6 mm. broa o3 
mens equaling the ro slender styles, with large stigmas. i. wi 
2.5 mm. broad, depressed-globose, yellow, densely tomen es 
Calyx enlarged in fruit, the lobes 6 mm. long, a ae 3 
capsule, which is 6 mm. broad, the 10 carpels subten ed by 
La Paz, Bolivia, 3,700 meters altitude, April 1910. (Otto 
Buchtien, No. 2893.) 
Ayenia acuminata. 
much elongating i e 
broader, densely muricate, the projections long-acuminate. 
“Occasional in clearings and waste ground below 2,500 feet, 
generally in shade. Root often stout and 6 inches or more 
long. Collected at Bonda, 150 feet, July-August.” (Herbert 
58) — 
Sterculia laxiflora. 
Mature foliage glabrous, 
: the younger growth not seen, the 
inflorescence and flowers de 
nsely yellowish-gray-tomentellate. 
