NEw SPECIES oF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 127 
10 on each side, widely spree and strongly pee oe 
the middle, connecting at some distance from the m the 
remaining venation pate reticle all bro do tin on the 
lower surface. Flowers in one or more whorls at the summit, 
the pedicels to 4 cm. long, very Qu y angled. Calyx 
bright-purple without, brown on the margins, campanulate, 12 
r 
two much broader than the others. Disk of 5 oblong, obtuse, 
erect scales half as long as the ovary, 2 of them united, ihe 
v . long, 4 mm. 
broad. Style nearly 2 cm. long, thick, slightly pani toward 
the base, the stigmas thin, crenate. Corolla 2.5 . long 
strongly ventricose or saccate at the summit, where ici is ue 5 a 
long as pressed, gradually contracted to the oblique base, where 
it is 8 mm. broad, the mouth 5-toothed, the teeth ovate, acute, 
thecae parallel but separate at the base. Ne. as long as 
the corolla. 
E ‘in a forest at Sierra del Libano, 6,000 feet, May." (Her- 
bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1403.) 
No duplicate. 
Columnea Sanmartensis. 
sely long-strigose with shining hairs, those of the lower 
lcai-surfaces bright-purple. Stems ascending, single, stout, 
rete. Leaves sessile, opposite, one of each pair rudimentary, 
: A or 2 cm. long, the other normal, 4 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 
cm. broad, somewhat inequilateral, Pope sie with rounded 
base and abruptly by the H and acute summit, thin, the 
e more than 1 cm. broad, campanulate, lobed 
three- fourths of the way or more, the lobes slightly unequal, 
as pressed, tito outh 2 cm. broad, pe 2 of the lobes erect, 
© mm. long, 9 ; T erect, 
half as long and broad, triangulate, acute, the fifth spreading 
or slightly eis broadly triangular-ovate, large. Dissec- 
tion material wa ing. 
“Rare on ird in damp forests, 5,500 to 6,500 feet, Sierra 
del Libano, growing to 2 feet. Collected March 7. Corolla 
Scarlet." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1394-) 
