130 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
r 5 mm. long : ong, 
very slender, about a half thicker just above the middle, pilose 
the corolla, the anthers 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, attached 
about the middle. Style stout, bifid, the branches exserted, 
2.5 mm. long, flattened. 
“A shrub or small tree, to 1 5 feet, the flowers deep-pink in 
December. Moderately common in thickets near a stream. 
Las Nubes, 4,500 feet." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 1813 
in part.) 
Species near R. erythroneura Karst, but the flowers much 
more slender. 
Elaeagia obovata. 
Inflorescence and veins of the lower leaf-surfaces puberu- 
lent. | Stipule-vestiges very short, connecting at the base, the 
margin bearing short and stout black, apparently glandular 
teeth. Petioles 1 to 2 cm. long, very stout, dark-brown, shal- 
Elaeagia mollis. 
Softly pubescent throughout, the branchlets stout. Inter- 
petiolar stipules united when young, the united pair about 12 
mm. long, ovate, acuminate and cuspidate, rigid, finely nerved, 
grooved above, the blades 12 to 18 cm. long, 6 to 10 cm. broad, 
oval with slightly produced and acute base, the summit not 
