84 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
Near F. tetrastachys. 
Collected by H. H. Rusby at the Falls of the Madeira in 
Brazil, October, 1886. (No. 2376.) 
Tabernaemontana myriantha Britton. 
Glabrous except for a sparse and very short soft pubescence 
on the lower leaf-surfaces. Leaves 8-17 cm. long by 3 to 7 cm. 
broad, oblong, abruptly contracted at base into a short petiole 
and at the summit into a short obtuse acumination, entire, mem- 
branaceous, deep-green above, pale underneath where the very 
slender venation is sharply prominent, the principal veins 
lobes distinct nearly to the base, 2 to 2.5 mm. long and nearly 
as broad, oval-elliptical and with lighter margins. Corolla 
tube about 10 mm. long, slender, the limb 12 to.15 mm. broad. 
Collected by H. H. Rusby at the Junction of the Rivers 
Beni and Madre de Dios, Bolivia, August, 1886. (No. 23779) 
Rauwolfia littoralis. 
breadth 4 to 8 cm., mostly rhomboidally obovate, abrupta 
contracted into a short petiole-like base and into a short, broad, 
acute, point at the summit, entire, very thin, dark-green, the 
re ng. 
or sub-Femispherical, less than half the length of the flower, 
smuately lobed. Disk crateriform, the margin. sub-entire, 
on varies, exclusive of the annulus, which is nearly 
a third of the total length and broad and conspicuous Corolla 
densely pilose within, not constricted, the ut one- 
" te the total length, spreading, ovate with rounded summit. 
nt Ey small, sub-sessile, attached about the middle of 
m ` a 
A tree 25 feet high, rare in thickets by the seashore, !? 
somewhat swampy ground near the mouth of the Buritaca 
River, September 22, the flowers white." (Herbert H. Smith, 
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