68 NEw SPECIEs or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
about 9 mm. long and broad, the obovoid body about half of 
the total width, one wing about twice as large as the other. 
“Local and not common, on wet rocks by streams in forest 
and clearings, Las Nubes, 4,500 feet, December 15, (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1265.) 
Grislea compacta. 
Inflorescence and p cn 
lent, the stems slender, slightly angled at the nodes, the inter 
nodes about 2.5 cm. ong. i 
reddish, the blades lightly as 
Ic 
he margin, the venation coarsely reti 
n the petioles, stout, angled, 
dilated at both ends, mostly branched, the branches similar, 
the|bracts lanceolate, acuminate, mostly shorter than the pedi- 
cels, which are mm. long, slender. Flowers deep crim- 
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oadly ovate obtusish lobes. Petals linear- 
; Obtuse, about a third the length of the calyx. 
Exserted portion of stamens nearly as long as the calyx, the 
style very slightly exceeding them 
"A Shrub, rare in t 
hickets on rOCky banks, generally near 
t. Specimens collected at rooo feet, June 
h, Colombia, No. 1875.) 
G. secunda, H. B. K., also collected by 
ich he compares as follows: "Specimens 
five plants are constant in the form of 
omewhat low and compact habit, which 1s 
he other." 
i he flowers are longer and more slender, and the leaf-form 
1S quite different. 
Ammania Pedunculata. 
Glabrous, the stems slender, erect, about 5 dm. high, simple 
or sparingly branched, the branches erect, the internodes about 
2 to 4 cm. long, sharply quadrangular. Leaves almost divari- 
cm. long, ri 
lobes ake 8, 4 to 8 mm. wide 
€ venation obscure, ous, 
: secondaries numer 
nearly straight. Peduncl long, mostly 3-flowered, 
