NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 61 
deep-green above, grayish-green beneath, obsoletely serrate, 
the teeth few and very small, the venation prominent beneath, 
` the secondaries about 8 on a side, strongly ascending, connected 
& : 
roader. Lower petal 15 mm. long, saccate at the base, longi- 
I5 feet, in low damp forest, one mile from the coast, Don Diego, 
May 8." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 2731.) : 
7 Rinorea (?) dichotoma. : 
rous. Arborescent, the branchlets slender, flexuous, 
terete. Petioles 4 or 5 m mg, stout, narrowly margined, 
the blades 8 to 14 cm. long, 4 to 5 cm. broad, lanceolate with 
obtuse base and acuminate obtusish summit, obsoletely serrate, 
` thickish and rigid, bright-green, the very slender venation 
sharply prominent underneath. Inflorescence once or usually 
twice dichotomous, the common peduncle stout, 3 to 5 mm. long: 
length nearly twice as broad as its stipe. Pedicels about 1 cm. 
long, slender, slightly thickened above, minutely nay s 
narrowed above, the anthers ovate, mucronate, the tip whitish. 
Style nearly equalling the corolla, filiform, the lower portion 
Persistent, the Ovary ovoid. Stigma terminal, minute. Young 
ruit obovoid. 
“Collected above Valparaiso, 5,000 feet." (Herbert H. 
Smith, Colombia, No. 1492.) 
