NEw SPECIES or SovTH AMERICAN PLANTS 129 
Species dedicated to Dr. Lindan who has kindly confirmed 
my determination. 
Collected at Playa Brava on the northern coast of Colombia, 
on a dry, rocky hillside on June 6, 1899, by Herbert H. Smith, 
who reports it as a foot high, and having crimson flowers. (No. 
2821. 
Rondeletia colombiana. 
Pilose with somewhat appressed hairs. Stems slender, 
quadrangular above. Stipules 
and acute, thin, browa. Petioles 2 cm. or more long, thin-mar- 
gined. Blade (oaly one seen) 2 dm. long, 1 dm. wide, oval or 
ovate with both ends very abruptly short-acuminate, thin, 
bright-green, the slender venation prominent beneath, the 
inclined to be erect. Pedicels 3 to 5 mm. long. Calyx 7 mm. 
long, the ovoid tube nearly as long as the 4 lobes, which are 
slightly unequal, narrowly lance-linear and acuminate. Corolla- 
tube strongly pilose, 12 mm. long, slender, slightly Vua 
two-thirds of the way toward the summit which is abruptly 
expanded into a short throat. Limb 8 mm. broad, sub-rotate, 
the lobes rounded. 
"Forest, Sierra de Onaca, 5,000 feet. A tree 20 feet high. 
This appears to be the normal form, the specimen from Las 
Nubes being from more or less stunted plants in second growth. 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1813, in part.) Mr. Smith's 
note refers to other specimens sent under the same mel 
€ two species are, however, obviously distinct, though closely 
related. 
3 Rondeletia ovata. 
A 
nate. Petioles to 12 mm. long, broad, keeled. 
and acute summit, entire, thin, rying brown, t 
Prominent neath ihe secondaries about I2 on a side, eis a 
falcate-ascending rather stout, connected by Mr dur i Pd 
Stoutish, short tertiaries. Panicle terminal, at teng 3 
Open, the bracts narrowly linear, to 7 iden the summit. 
°F 4 mm. long, rather stout, slightly thickened at 
