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96 New SPECIES OF SoUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
ages narrow, strongly e 
thickened filaments attached to the very base, the pendulous 
"In dry thickets back of sandy coast, Playa Brava, June 
6. Abundant and flowering freely." (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 1680.) 
Metastelma pallidum. 
Sparsely and very minutely puberulent. Stems slender, 
much branc ved, the branches divaricate and somewhat re- 
curved. Petioles to 6 mm. long, slender, narrowly margined. 
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à h acuminat 
pungent summit, thin, very pale, the venation slender, slightly 
olate at the base. Calyx r.5 mm. wide, the rotate corolla 4 
mm. wide. Calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, thin. Corolla-lobes 
obovate. Crown closely adnate to the base of the stamens, 
the lobes very short, 3-toothed. Corpuscle narrow, the fila- 
ments short, thick. Stigma 5-lobed, the lobes oblong. 
A twining vine, to 15 feet, with white flowers. In thickets 
on a ridge near Cacagualita, 2,000 feet, January 1o. Also 
collected in December” (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 1900.) 
Metastelma (8 Eumetastelma) ovatum. 
Glabrous. Stems slender, teret», finely nerved, leafy. Peti- 
oles to 2.5 cm. long, very slender. Blades 3 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 
Peduncles slender, longer than their petioles, the flowers um- 
bellate, rather numerous, the filiform pedicels about twice the 
o ere. Ca broad, divided 
, 
. nearly to the base, the lobes ovate, acute. Corolla rotate, $5 
mm. broad, parted nearly to the base, the lobes ovate, obtusish, 
ae a sony turned outward and replicate. per 
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