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118 NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
"Suffructicose, erect, 3 to 4 feet high, in damp clearings, 
Sierra del Libano, 6,000 feet, January 23, flowering until May 
or later. Corolla white, sometimes tinged with purple." (Her- 
bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1182.) 
Burchell’s No. 3705 is similar, but the flowers are not more 
than half as long. 
Physalis petiolaris. 
lets divergent. Petioles filiform, striate, some near cm. 
long, the blades 4 to 7 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. broad, inequilater- 
ally ovate with a short abruptly acuminate and acute summit 
l to 7 secondaries strongly ascending, nearly 
straight or lightly falcate above. Peduncles solitary, in flower 
about 6 mm. long, moderately elongating in fruit, slender, 
densely villous like the calyx, which is narrowly campanulate, 
5 mm. long, lobed more than half way, the tube 3 mm. broad, 
the bass truncate and umbilicate, the lobes triangular-lance- 
olate, regularly acuminate and acute, appressed, the sinuses 
acute. Corola 7 mm. long, campanulate, villous, sulphur- 
yellow, shallowly lobed. Stamens nearly equalling the corolla, 
the filaments twice the length of the anthers. Fruiting calyx, 
rather rare in damp clearings and waste places below 2000 feet. 
Flowers pale yellow, the throat spotted with dark purple. 
Collected near Bonda, 150 feet, November 9." (Herbert B 
Smith, Colombia, No. 1171.) 
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Physalis cuneata. 
Calyx, pedicels and young petioles minutely and sparsely 
puberulent. Branchlets slender flexuous, terete, the younger 
portions irregularly angled. Leaves, including petioles, 7 tO 
BT MY contracted into a basal portion which is gradu- 
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