82 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
flowers 2 or 3 mm. apart. Flowers 2.5 cm. long, very slender, 
light-red, the calyx 3-4 mm. long, parted almost to the base, 
the lobes setaceous, erect, with spreading tips.  Corolla-tube 
slightly dilated just above the middle, the lobes short and 
broad. Seed-pod yellowish, about two-thirds the length of the 
_ calyx, ovate and acuminate. 
Collected by Rusby and Squires on Eleanor Creek, lower 
inoco, in May, 1896. (No. 145). 
Aspidosperma elliptica. 
reticulate. Peduncles (in flower) about 2 cm. long. Cymes 
compound, 4 or 5 cm. broad, rather densely flowered, the bracts 
I or 2 mm. long, ovate, acute, the flowers subsessile and crowded 
at the ends of the branchlets. Flower 4 or 5 mm. long, the 
calyx a little more than a third of the length, lobed nearly to 
and broad, minutely puberulent. Follicle 4 cm. long, nearly 
2 cm. broad, falcately oblong, softly whitish-papillose, a line 
wing, which extends below it about 3 mm. and nearly 2 cm. 
above and is falcately lance-oblong, and of a whitish or pale- 
rown color. 
“Rather Tare in forests and open lands. Collected at 
Masinga Vieja, 800 feet, April 25, and at Bonda, in February: 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 836, in part). 
Mr. Smith collected two species under thisnumber. That 
with acuminate base and shining upper surface of leaf and very 
small, narrow, thick and crescentic pods, appears to be A. de- 
cipiens Müll. Arg. 
Tabernaemontana longiflora. ' 
Glabrous. Branchlets irregularly quadrilateral. Petioles 5 
sid "i ong, Very stout, broadly channelled on the uppe 
side. Blades 7 to I5 cm. long by 3-5 cm. wide, oblong, short 
