New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 57 
Petioles stout, the blades palmate, the five leaflets twenty to 
thirty cm. long and eight to twelve cm. broad, oblanceolate 
with cuneate base and rounded summit, the bases, after narrow- 
each side, spreading widely and strongly falcate-ascending at 
the ends, where they are more or less connected at or very close 
to the margin, the venation finely reticulate. Panicle axillary, 
solitary, elongated, 15 to 20 cm. long, very loosely flowered, the 
rachis sulcate, the pedicels 6 to 8 mm. long, s 
nearly 2 cm. long, campanulate, five-lobed a third of the way, 
the lobes ovate and acute. Essential organs slightly exserted, 
about 5 mm. long, the fifteen anthers about 134 mm. long, ar- 
ranged in an irregular circle at the base of the pistils, oval, curved, 
of unequal size, sessile. Pistils five, distinct, about 3 mm. long, 
the ovaries lanceolate and acuminate, the styles slender, the 
summits mostly reflexed, the stigmas small, peltate. 
Collected by Miguel Bang in Bolivia, without number, 
locality or date. 
Saurauja brevipes. 
or su 
terminal, 7-10 cm. long and broad, the branchlets subulate- 
bracted at the base. Pedicels extremely short, subulate-bracted, 
the flowers 5-7 mm. broad. Sepals 5 mm. broad, sub-rotund, 
thin and translucent, nearly distinct, narrowed at the base. 
Petals similar, about a half longer than the sepals. Filaments 
ĉe, stout, separate to the base. 
Pecies near S, scabra. s; : 
Collected in Bolivia by M. Bang, but locality not specified 
5 and specimen without number. 
Saurauja Herbert-Smithii. 
i i lcate. - 
arsely pilose, the hairs short, stout and mostly fa 
Branchlets slender, striate, leafy. Petioles 3 to 5 Cm long, 
