NEW SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 15 
Branchlets numerous, short, stout, terete, puberulent, erect- 
spreading, leafy to the base of the inflorescence.  Petioles 5 or 
strong, strongly falcate-ascending, crooked and connected by a 
s. 
crooked network of tertiarie 
or 5 mm. broad, divided about half way, the lobes ovate, 
obtusish or acute. Corolla 5 mm. long, mostly loosely enclosed 
by the calyx or the latter at length spreading widely; slightly 
minutely mucronulate. Ovary depressed-globose, shorter than 
the calyx, the style stout, about as long as the ovary. 
shrub 2 to 5 feet high, in open ground, top of San Lorenzo 
r 
bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1719.) The same as Fendler's 
741, and also collected by Burchell. 
Macleania robusta. 
the middle and strongly decurrent on the midrib, the ide 
Ones faint and loosely anastomosing. Racemes in the uppe 
-toothed 
spout as long as the tube, shortly and very broadly 5-toothed, 
the teeth acute. Corolla 13 mm. long, slightly ventricose 
