New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 63 
3 mm. long, slender, the bases minutely bracted, the bracts 
brown. Sepals 2 mm. long, sub-rotund, black-dotted within. 
Stamens 12, slightly connate at the base, nearly as long as the 
sepals, the staminodia very broad, half the length of the sta- 
mens, pilose. Ovary short-ovoid, the style short and thick, 
the stigmas 3, large, connate at the base. 
“A tree, probably from Onaca, about 2500 feet, December."' 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 906.) 
Species very similar to No. 1768, but the slender, somewhat 
3-fid style of the latter marks it as distinct and in a different 
section. 
oles 8 to 10 mm. long, stout, deep-purple. Blades 7 to 12 cm. 
very minute, brown. Sepals 1.5 mm. long, oval, obtuse. Sta- 
mens Io, nearly as long.as the sepals, the staminodia nearly as 
long as the filaments, pilose. Ovary large, obliquely ovoid, 
tuberculate, the style slender, more than a third the length o 
the ovary, trifid, the branches strongly recurved, stout, the 
Stigmas sma x 
“A riverside tree, near Calacasa, 1000 feet, May 18."  (Her- 
bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 800.) i 
Specimen very near No. 1768, but the leaf-dots different 
and the ovary and stigmas quite distinct. 
Casearia ($ Crateria) Herbert-Smithii. 
Inflorescence grayish-puberulent. Branches elongated, slen- 
der, the internodes about 2 cm. long.  Petioles 6 to 8 mm. long, 
Stout, purple, the blades 6 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 3.5 cm 
lanceolate and mostly somewhat inequilateral at the acutish 
or obtusish base, and abruptly acuminate and obtuse at the 
summit, the acumination about one-eighth or one-ninth of the 
