NEw SPECIES oF SovTH AMERICAN PLANTS 97 
“A twining vine, to 6 or 8 feet, with white flowers; moder- 
ately common in dry thickets and forests below 2,000 feet, 
July-August or later. Collected near Bonda, I50 feet, July; 
the fruit in August." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
1676.) 
Tassadia recurva. 
Glabrous. Stems slender, terete, the internodes about half 
as long as the leaves.  Petioles 5 or 6 mm. long, slender, chan- 
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lobes of the crown keel-like. Appendages of the anthers ovate, 
hyaline. Corpuscle linear-oblong, the pollinia narrowly ovoid, 
pendulous oa long slender filaments. 
"Twining to 20 feet. Rare in mountain forest, 1,500 to 
3:500 feet. Collected at Las Partidas, 3,500 feet, March 15, 
and Minca, 2,000 feet, June r. (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
No. 1621.) 
No. 1620, from “damp forest between Calavasa and Cacagua- 
lita November I5," is the same. 
Ditassa mandoni. 
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slender or stoutish, terete, sharply nerved. Petioles 3 or 4 mm. 
long, stoutish. Blades 2 to 4 cm. long, 6 to 12 mm. wide, 
lance-oblong, with rounded base and summit, the latter ci 
aristate; thickish, dark-green, the margins inclined to turn 
back, secondaries I2 to I a side, widely spreading, 
nearly straight. Peduncles 3 to 5 mm. long, and about equaling 
the Icels, or a little longer, the flowers 5 to I alyx 
Parted to the base, the lobes 1 mm. long, ovate, acute. Corolla 
rotate, 6 mm. long, parted nearly to the base, thickish, the lobes 
“Ovate, obtusish, tomentellate within. Crown adnate to 
the base of the stamens, twice the length of the stamens, bi 
cales hyaline, nearly distinct, the inner two-thirds the lengi 
of the Outer, acuminate, the outer long-attenuate. Corpuscle 
