New SPECIES or SovTH AMERICAN PLANTS 101 
rotate, thick, fleshy, purple, pilose within, parted nearly to the 
base, the lobes 8 or 9 mm. long, broadly ovate, obtuse. Crown 
of five thick, fleshy, purple, concave scales attached closely to 
the stamens and of about equal length, the anthers with short, 
erect, triangular, hyaline appendages. Stigma plane. Polli- 
nia ovoid, attached by short, thick filaments to a heart-shaped 
corpuscle, with acute summit. 
“Twining to 40 feet, the corolla white with greenish zone 
around the throat. Occasional in damp forest, 4,000 to 5,000 
leet. Collected at Valparaiso, 4,500 feet, February 26." 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1667.) 
Phaeostemma grandifolia. 
Ferruginous-hirsute, the hairs variously curved; branches 
stout; petioles 7 cm. long, stout; blades 20-30 cm. long, 10-15 
em. broad, oval, lightly cordate, acute, thin, sparsely pilose with 
coarse hairs; pedicels 12-30 mm. long, stout, very hirsute, like 
e calyx. Calyx parted nearly to the base, the lobes 12 mm. 
long, 6 mm. broad, lanceolate, acuminate; corolla about 4 cm. 
narrow; crown dark-purple, 8 mm. broad, sinuately 5-lobed; 
h ; 
- long, 6 mm. broad, obovate, thick, the margin coarsely 
toothed; coma very fine and white. 
“Fruit 6 inches long, smooth; Charopampa, 1,600 feet, 
September 22, 1901” (R. S. Williams, No. 797). 
Gonolobus Squiresii. 
thickish, pale-green, the venation not prominent, the secondaries 
3 0r 4 on a side, crooked, forking below the middle, and connect- 
m 
the lobes ovate, obtuse. Crown short, thin, greenish, m 
Stigmatic disk short-stipitate, a little more than 1 mm. broad, 
Purple, lightly 5-angled and slightly 5-grooved. 
Gonolobus attenuatus. . iia eae 
ore or less pubescent throughout, the younger ste 
Se with coarse yellow divaricate or reflexed hairs. Stems very 
