108 NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
into a short, broad, acute terminal acumination, entire, bright- 
green, thin, the slender venation lightly prominent underneath, 
the secondaries about 7 on a side, strongly falcately ascending. 
Cymes axillary, 2 to 4 cm. broad, on very slender peduncles 
I.5 to 3 cm. long, loosely flowered, minutely subulate-bracted. 
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dark-colored, the limb pale-green, broadly campanulate, about 
road, shallowly lobed, the lobes erect, broadly ovate, 
rounded. Exserted portion of dark-purple corolla-tube about 
as long and broad as the calyx-tube, the limb campanulate, 5 
mm. broad, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes broadly oval 
with rounded summit, erect, exceeding the stamens. Style 
much shorter than stamens, divided more than half way. Fruit 
not seen. 
~“ A shrub or dwarf tree, to 6 feet in a clearing at Cacagualito 
1500 feet, August 9." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, Nq.330- 
in part.) 
Aegiphila stricta, var (?) 
Inflorescence minutely cinereous, the branchlets stout, 
straight, coarsely angled, the internodes 5 or 6 cm. long. Peti- 
oles 8 to 12 mm. long, winged, and channelled and annulate 
owered, on slender peduncles 2 or 3 times as long as their 
petioles, shortly subulate-bracted and bracteolate. 
summit. nsns long exserted. Fruit black, 6 mm. broa 
ng. 
“In thickets by the seashore near the mouth of the Buri- 
taca River, attaining a height of 10 or 12 feet. Corolla yellow- 
ish-white, berry red.” (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
330.) 
Sent by Mr. Smith as the same as the last, and under that 
number, but differs in more slender corolla and long exserted 
stamens. 
Lippia subterranea. 
h Gray, with closely appressed hairs, .suffructicose, the thick, 
s ort woody stems rooting and creeping in the sand, and pro- 
