New SPECIES or SovTH AMERICAN PLANTS 103 
à yx abou 
cupulate, the sepals broadly elliptical, the outer densely ferru- 
ginous, the inner slightly so and purple. Tube of corolla about 
as long as the calyx, the campanulate limb a little more than 
twice as long, coarsely pilose externally. Stamens included. 
capitate, larg 
“A twiner, to 20 feet. Rare in borders of forest below 
1000 feet. Specimen collected 5 miles south of Mamatoca, at 
about 800 feet, November 21." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
No. 877.) ; 
Maripa repens. 
Prominent beneath, the principal secondaries about 8 ona side, 
falcately ascending and disappearing in the margin, the remain- 
ing venation inconspicuous. Peduncle lateral, short and stout, 
the panicle short, broad, loosely flowered, the bracts very small, 
broadly ovate, acute, thick and rigid. Pedicels a little longer 
than the calyx, stout, striate. Flower 2.5 cm. long, the calyx 
a fourth of its length, the sepals equal, rounded at the ciliate 
summit, thick and rigid, minutely muricate, the corolla narrowly 
fampanulate, lobed more than a third of the way, the lobes 
auriculate at the base. Style about equaling the stamens, 
entire, the stigma large, broader than long, its base cordate. 
along a river-bank. 
Ipomoea hilarifolia. 
Glabrous. Branches striate and lightly sulcate. Petioles 
3 to 5 cm. long, slender, the blades 2.5 to 4 cm. long from the 
Petiole to summit, 2 to 5 cm. broad, exclusive of the basal lobes, 
vate with abruptly short-acuminate summit and cordate si 
the basal lobes more than half the length of the body, broadly 
