112 NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
ascending, bluntly quadrangular, the internodes 5 to 7 cm. 
long. Petioles very unequal, m. long, very slender, 
narrowly grooved above. Blades 5 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 8 cm. 
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straight, forking at some distance from the margin, connected 
y crooked tertiaries. Peduncle mostly stout, 5 to long, 
way tube 2 mm. broad, oblong, the upper lip entire, the 
lower two-lobed half its length, the divisions triangular-lance- 
olate, acuminate and acute. Corolla 1 5 mm. long, pilose with- 
out, glabrous within, the narrowly infundibular tube 6 mm. 
long, the throat 3 mm., the upper lip erect, concave, entire, 
the lower 3-lobed, the middle lobe oval with narrow base, 
about twice as large as the ovate lateral ones. Stamens attached 
in the throat, the filament 2 mm. long, the lower branch of the 
connective 5 mm. long, the upper 2 mm. long, dilated, slightly 
longer than the anther-cell, which is slightly exserted. Style 
exserted, the summit sharply recurved 
“A shrub 3 to 6 feet high, with scarlet flowers. Local and 
rather rare in dry forest region below 1000 feet, generally in 
open ravines. Collected five miles north of Bonda, about 100 
feet, October 22. (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 567.) 
No. 379, "a shrub 5 to 8 feet high, with scarlet flowers, 
occasional in thickets on open hillsides, 1500 to 3000 feet, 
collected at Onaco, 2500 feet, December 20” is a variety of the 
same. 
Solanum tetrapetalum. 
Petioles, midiibs, etc., of young leaves minutely puberulent, 
Herbaceous, unarmed, the stems and branches elongated and 
l Or I. 
yx 3 mm. long, lobed two-thirds of the way, the 4 lobes 
lanceolate, acuminate and acute. Corolla 1 cm. long, lobed to 
the base, the 4 lobes oblanceolate, obtuse. Stamens four, 6 
