New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 85 
Colombia, No. 1905). No. 1906 appears to be the same. Its 
petioles are a little shorter and the leaf-base less acuminate. 
Its fruits are about 8 mm. broad. Of it Smith says, “A 
shrub, to 8 feet, near a stream in dry forest 5 miles north of Bonda, 
100 to 200 feet. Berry red, at length black. Flowers April 28, 
fruit January 14.’ 
Echites Sanctae-Martae. 
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eiat ferruginous, the stems very slen rete. Petioles 
I to 2 cm. long, slender, sulcate, the blades 6 to - cm. long, I.5 
O 4 cm. broad, lanceolate with rounded or blunt base and 
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Te regularly from the base to the acutesummit. Corolla- 
t cm. long, cylindrical, contracted slightly at the raters 
the Oh et 6m dus campanulate, the limb 2 cm. broad. 
Twining to 40 or 50 feet. Occasional in damp forest, 
3,000 to 4,500 feet. Corolla magenta- -crimson. Collected 
above Jinacasaca, 3,000 feet, August 25." (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 2 2525.) 
Echites Laurentiae-disca. 
labrous, the stems slender, egies the petioles 6 to 10 mm. 
long, slender, sub-carinate on the lower surface, the blades 5 
to 10 cm. | to ide, ovate with rounded very 
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