New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 87 
ovaries. Stigma conical, about 3 mm. long and broad, th 
base reflexed, 5-lobed, the tips of the lobes whitish. Corolla- 
e 
"A twining vine to 20 feet, rare in damp forest and neglected 
clearings. Sierra del Libano, 6,000 feet. Corolla white, 
greenish on the outside. Collected January 22." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1904.) 
Dipladenia Buchtienii. 
Finely and softly puberulent throughout, the stem rather 
stout, erect, terete, striate, in my specimen 3 dm. high, the very 
short hairs divaricate or slightly reflexed, the leaves approxi- 
mate, subsessile, 4 or 5 cm. long, the lower nearly as broad, the 
upper about half as broad, oblong or oval with sub-cordate 
base and broad, very ‘slightly pointed. summit, tnickish, the 
venation obscure, the secondaries 8 or 10 on each side, stoutish, 
late, the limb 2.5 or 3 cm. ad. Inner scales of the calyx 
very small aad short, the disk-lobes narrow, about half the length 
of the ovaries. 
‘‘Polo-Polo, near Coroico, Bolivia, 1100 M. altitude, Novem- 
ber 11, 1912.” (Otto Buchtien, part of No. 3903, the other 
portions being D. tetradenia Rusby. 
Dipladenia piladenia. 
Puberulent throughout, the stem slender, branching from 
y speci 
about 15 on each side, very slender, ascending and -— 
Curved. Flowers few (3 in my specimen), distant, the pedicels - 
