114 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
and acute, the sinuses similar and extending about half way to 
long, sub-erect. Calyx-tube hemispherical or broadly campanu- 
late, about 3 or 4 mm. long, the lobes about half as long, narrowly 
triangular, attentuate and acute, the sinuses broad and rounded. 
Corolla 1.5 cm. long, campanulate, puberulent, lobed two-thirds 
of the way, the lobes ovate with a strong mid-vein. Stamens 
about 1 cm. long, the filaments very short, the anthers narrowly 
lanceolate, acuminate, the upper portions light-colored, lightly 
incurved, the small pores directed upward and slightly inward. 
mall, ovoid with rounded summit, glabrous, the style 
stout, slightly exceeding the stamens. 
A small tree, 8 to 12 feet. Common in clearings near 
stream at Las Nubes, 4,500 feet. December 8. Petals white. 
Stem pretty thickly covered with thick thorns, sometimes nearly , 
an inch long. Also common in clearing at 6,000 feet, Sierra del 
Libano." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1144.) 
Solanum auctosepalum. 
Harshly, shortly and densely yellowish stellate-hairy through- 
out. Branches woody, very flexuous, terete, sparsely armed 
with short, stout, yellow prickles. Petioles up to 5 cm. long, 
stout, sub-terete, grooved above, widely spreading or recurved. 
Blades 10 to 15 cm. long and nearly or quite as wide, ovate with 
acumination at the summit. Margin coarsely dentate or sinu- 
ate-dentate, the teeth 4 to 6 on a side, short, broad and mostly 
obtuse, the sinuses blunt or rounded, a secondary running into 
each tooth. Leaf thin, the lower side of petiole and principal 
long, stout. Calyx 6 mm. long, lobed nearly to the base, the 
lobes lanceolate and mucronate. Corolla rotate, 3 cm. road, 
lobed two-thirds of the way, the lobes with a broad, dark mid- 
vein. Stamens 8 mm. long, the filaments very short, the an- 
thers narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, slightly incurved above, 
the small pores directed nearly upward. : 
“Occasional on open swampy land near mouth of Rio Burt- 
taca, 50 miles east of Santa, September 25.” (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 1154). 
No. 1854. “A shrub 4 feet high, the only one observed, ™ 
an open dry watercourse near the seashore at Playa Brava, 
Mile A ES A us, 
