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mate segments from 3 to 6 cm. long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm. broad, ovate 
with rounded to truncate, occasionally inequilateral base and 
rate, very thin, the venation obscure. Umbels crowded in ter- 
minal corymbs with short, very thick, bracted branches, about 
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Flowers 4 to 5 mm. long and broad, the calyx about one-third 
of the length, crateriform, minutely toothed, dark, the petals 
very lightly imbricate. 
“A tree to 40 feet or more, occasional in forest below 1500 
feet. Flowers white, in March or April. Inflorescence of 10 
to 20 short branches crowded together to form a large cluster. 
Leaves deciduous about the time of flowering, three times 
pinnate, some of the final segments divided or pinnate. Col- 
lected near Masinga, 250 feet, March 22.” (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 1595.) Very near Balansa’s No. 3758. 
Hydrocotyle grossulariaefolia. 
ems very slender, creeping, regularly sulcate, the ribs and 
grooves rounded. Petioles slender and weak, 2 to 6 cm. long, 
striate, sparsely pilose below, densely so toward the summit, 
the hairs reflexed. Blades 4 to 6 cm. broad, 2 to 3 cm. from 
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slender. o.5 mm. long and nearly as broad 
ruits beue ke c strongly ribbed, both ribs 
and grooves obtuse. 
Species near H. Poeppigiana, but differing in the form of the 
leaf-lobes and especially in the angled fruits. 
"Diffuse, rooting, 3 to 4 feet, covering the ground on wet 
banks in open land, Sierra del Libano. One specimen at 
7,000 feet, F ebruary 26, another from near Valparaiso, 5000 
feet, January 20." (Herbert H. Smith, Columbia, No. 1310.) 
Gaultheria sanmartansis. a wem 
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