90 NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
disk, which is longer than the ovaries and is shallowly lobed, 
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the lobes with broad rounded summits. orolla-tube proper 
twice the length of the calyx, cylindrical, about 3 mm. thick, 
the throat broadly campanulate, abo m. long and equally 
wide at the summit, the limb broadly campanulate, about 5 
cm. broad. Stamens inserted at the pilose summit of the tube, 
the filaments very short, the anthers t ovoid, acute. Young 
follicle 25 cm. long, very slender, toru 
"A twining vine, to 6 or 8 um Corolla bright-yellow. 
Occasional in clearings and edges of forests near Las Partidas 
and Valparaiso, 3000 to 4500 feet. Flowers March to July. 
Collected at Las Partidas, 3500 feet, June 2 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1663.) 
Forsteronia foliosa. 
Inflorescence tomentellate. Branchlets slender, elongated, 
ecd. x the internodes 5 or 6 cm. long. Pe tioles 
IO on each side, lightly curved and obsc urely connecting at 
ap distance from the margin, connected by the eoque and 
very fine reticulum that is im mpressed on both surfaces. 
uidi terminal (but one seen), long, includine the 
ns Egi is 3 cm. long, the width of the dense fie 
a5 c the ers not yet expanded, sessile. Ca 
fifths "the length of the b ud. lobed nearly half way, the ye 
broad with rounded summ 
Species very near to i mollis Rusby, but undoubtedly 
distinct. 
" Polo-Polo, near Corioco, Bolivia, 1100 M. altitude, Nov- 
ember II, 1912." (Otto Buchtien, No. 3876.) 
Prestonia mucronata. 
Ferrugin d MARE ier. iria the branches elongated 
pedicels rather stout, shorter than the flowers. Cal about 
I cm. long, equalling the corolla-tube, the lobes ovate, acumi- 
