74 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
or slightly reflexed. Petioles very short and broad, the o 
to 12 mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. broad, ovate, with rounded a 
and acute summit, thick, very smooth, serrate with thick s 
the venation prominent on both sides, very strongly so beneath, 
filament about as long as the anther, very slender, the anther 
ovoid, the awns exceeding it and extremely slender. Ovary 
depressed-globose, the style stout, about as long as the ovary. 
erry slightly 5-lobed, 6 mm. broad. ; 
“A shrub to 1 foot high, on top of San Lorenzo Ridge, 6,500 
to 7,500 feet, February 7.” (Herbert H. Smith, No. 1721.) 
Apparently the same as Holton’s No. 626. 
Gaultheria tetriches, 
ower leaf-surfaces shortly and sparsely rough-hairy, the 
branchlets, inflorescence, etc., glandular-hairy. Branchlets 
stout, widely spreading, flexuous, terete, deep purple-brown. 
Petioles 3 to 5 mm. long, strongly channelled above, the blades 
5 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 4 i i 
mens 10, somewhat 
1300 m. altitude, November 1910. A 
(Otto Buchtien, No. 2930.) 
Gaultheria fendleri. 
_ Veins of the lower leaf-surfaces pilose with coarse deciduous 
hairs, the rach 
is and pedicels ferruginous with divaricate hairs. 
