86 NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
cm. long, 5 mm. broad, as pressed, strongly contracted at the 
summit, the limb 2.5 cm. broad, the stamens attac at the 
base of the constricted portion, the filaments very short, the 
anthers 6 mm. long, sharply acuminate at the summit and base. 
Stigma bi-penicillate. Calyx-lobes ovate, as long as the disk. 
Glands 5, triangular-ovate, acutish, thin. Disk, of 5 scales, 4 
of them in connate pairs, the fifth free, their summits roun 
Santa Catalina, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May, 1896 (Rusby 
and Squires, No. 302.) 
Echites bicorniculata. 
ounger portions and lower leaf-surfaces puberulent-downy. 
Stems slender, terete. Petioles 6 to 8 mm. long, channeled 
above, and bearing a pair (or 4) of subulate, acute, cartilaginous 
glands or hornsatthesummit. Blades 5 to7 cm. long, 2.5 to3 cm. 
broa long-ovate, with slightly cordate base and mucionate 
summit, thickish, the margin thinly revolute; venation obscure 
on hs es, the secondaries 6 on h side, spreading, 
nate, the cyme very shortly bifid, the pedicels short, stout, 
alyx campanulate, 3 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, the 
the ovaries. Style thickened toward the bass. 
A twining vine, to 20 feet, in thickets, on plains near the 
sea-coast. Cienaga, September 10.” (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 1640.) 
Dipladenia alba-viridis. 
