/ 106 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PTANTS 
Bourreria viridis. 
oung portions minutely scabrous, the branchlets weak and 
Blades 1.5 to 2 dm. long, 5 to 7 cm. broad, ovate with acute 
base and abruptly short-acuminate and acute summit, entire, 
thin, minutely scabrous, the venation strongly prominent 
beneath, very slightly so above, the principal secondaries about 
about 6 mm. long, campanulate, shortly lobed, the flowers not 
developed. Fruiting calyx rotate at base of fruit, nearly 1 cm. 
b : 
the wall very thick and bony. 
Lower Orinoco, Venezuela (Rusby and Squires, No. 259). 
7 Tournefortia macrostachya. 
arshly yellowish-tomentose throughout. Arborescent, the 
branchlets long, slender and flexuous, some of the leaves attain- 
E oath of 4 dm. and a breadth of 2 dm., the petiole about 
a hit 
or more times dichotomous, the branches 2 or 3 dm. long, 
— spreading, slender, stoutly peduncled, loosely-flowered, 
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recurved, the pedicels about 3 mm. long, stout, the fruits about 
mm. long and not so broad, the calyx teeth about two-thirds 
of their length. 
TUA tree, to 12 feet. Rare in abandoned clearings, Sierra 
del Libano, 6000 feet, January 21. Flowers white." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1865.) 
Coldenia aggregata. 
Densely setose-hispid throughout. Stems woody, prostrate, 
densely branching, 1.5 dm. or more long, the branches densely 
fasciculate-leafy. Leaves 5 mm. long, of which the lower 2 
