70 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
cm. long, 4 to 5 cm. broad, ovate, the rounded base slightly 
produced into the petiole, the summit acuminate, obtuse; entire, 
thin, the coarsely reticulate venation sharply prominent on the 
sharply nodose after falling. 
Fruits 10 mm. long, 12 or 13 mm. broad, inclusive of the wings, 
which are about 2 mm. broad, irregularly and lightly crenate, 
ed or sub-truncate, the summit with a very 
short broad style-base, the color deep-brown. 
“Collected near Masinga, 250 feet, February 6." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 874.) 
Combretum oblongifolium. 
Glabrate, the branchlets elongated, slender, terete except 
above. Petioles about 3 mm. long, stout, the blades 5 to 10 
m. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, oblong, varying to oblanceolate, 
rounded or minutely cordate at 
ion finely reticulate, the 
Panicles axillary and ter- 
; long-peduncled, the rachis 
cate, the spikes occasionally leafy- 
-peduncled, the peduncle and rachis 
IO cm. long, rather loosely 
flowered. Flowers closely sessile, subulate bracted at the base, 
the slender summit the bracts recurved, about two-thirds 
"A high scandent shrub in f 
cember 28. A series of Specimens from th same plant have 
the panicles nearly glabrous, the clusters much larger than in 
