76 NEw SPECIES or Sout AMERICAN PLANTS 
mm. wide, thin, attached above the broad base of the bu 
the stout awns nearly as long as the cells, abruptly inflexed a 
the base. 
Macleania arcuata. 
lyx almost imperceptibly puberulent, the coro 
seen;otherwiseglabrous. Branchlets very stout, terete, wrinkled. 
Petioles nearly 1 cm. long, very stout, sub-terete, fleshy, strongly 
rugose when d 
lightly curved, the bper ones faint, connecting with the upper 
pair of the principal on acemes in er axils an 
terminal 
me 
, few or many-flowered, shortly and stoutly peduncled, 
i at the base. Pedicels very 
. long, deflexed at the base, then sharply 
curved and erect, 2-bracteolate below the middle, the bractlets 
small, ovate and acute. Calyx articulated to the pedicel, the 
i 6 mm. long and 5 mm. broad, cupulate, 
m. fong, 8 mm. broad, the short triangular tee 
“A tree to 10 feet, on top of open ridge, Sierra del Libano, 
6,000 feet, January 20.” (Herbert H: Smith, No. 2789.) 
Macleania recurva. 
Upper portions of plant, inflorescence, flowers and lower 
leaf-surfaces puberulent. Branches erect, stout, terete, leafy 
to the summit. i 6 
4 » Strongly ascending, the smaller ones above about UE 
n each side, faint, connecting by a loose reticulation with 
