116 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PTANTS 
Cyphomandra chlorantha. 
lanceolate, acuminate and acute. Petioles of the regular stem- 
leaves about 1 cm. long, slender, channelled above, the blades 
long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, mostly somewhat inequi- 
Cymes long and slenderly peduncled, loosely several-flowered, 
the pedicels 1.5 to 2 cm. long, striate. Calyx 5 mm. broad, 
rotate, lobed about half way, the lobes broadly ovate, abruptly 
acuminate and acute, sharply ribbed. ^ Corolla puberulent on 
both surfaces, campanulate, about 12 mm. long, lobed a little 
more than half way, the lobes ovate, obtuse. Stamens 5 mm. 
long, the anthers sessile, incurved, the connective very broad 
and thick, the thecae not reaching its base and inflexed at the 
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"Erect, branching only above, but the lower part of the 
stem with divided leaves. Rare in damp clearings, 4,000 to 
6,000 feet. January to April. Flowers pale greenish. Col- 
lected at Valparaiso, 4,500 feet, January 26." 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1180.) 
Cyphomandra bassovioides. : 
armed and glabrous, the branchlets stout, obscurely 
angled and sulcate. Petioles reaching nearly 2 cm. long, the 
blades 7 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, oblong-oblanceolate, 
with mequilateral acute base and acuminate and acute summit, 
entire, thickish, the venation sharply prominent beneath, 
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sile, several-flowered, the pedicels slender, regularly enlarging 
i fleshy and 
cute, the lobes very broad with rounded summit. 
Corolla campanulate, divided nearly to the base, the lobes 8 
x en : 
- long, ovate. Stamens 7 on 
about one fourth the total length, the anthers oblong, stout, 
slightly incurved, the connective moderately thickened, the 
