78 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
coming greenish, with minute brown tips. Corolla about twice 
narrowing regularly from the summit to the base. Anthers at 
the base as broad as the top of the filament, the bodies short, 
the two awns long. ary extre 
stricted around the middle, 5-lobed at the summit, whic 
depressed in the center, the style stout, straight, a little longer 
n the stamens, the stigma truncate. ery young fruit 
globose, with a thick, annular, light-colored epigynous disk, 
depressed in the center, the style deciduous. 
Fragmentary specimen unique. Collected in Bolivia, prob- 
ably by M. Bang, in the vicinity of Cochabamba, but data 
completely wanting. 
Psammisia elegans. 
i abro: Branchlets slender, coarsely angled above, very 
caly at the summit.  Petioles about 1 cm. long, blackish, 
stout. Blades 15 to 20 cm. long, 7 to 10 cm. broad, ovate wi 
broadly rounded base and abruptly short-acuminate obtuse 
summit, entire, thin, drying brownish, the slender venation 
Diem, the remaining venation loosely reticulate. 
pouce (detached in my specimen) elongated, slender, striate, 
i ed, Í e pedicels crowded at and near the summit, 3 or 4 cm. 
ong, S pe bracted at the base, with small, ovate, acumi- 
cts 
w 
Corolla 2.5 cm. lon i : i 
ʻo 3 & 6 mm. broad in the slightly ventricose 
lower portion, contracted toward the summit, the teeth short, 
