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132 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
and acute, erect-spreading. Dissection material wanting. Cap- 
sule 2 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, 4-lobed, tipped by the persistent, 
strongly recurved calyx-lobes. 
“A shrub, to 8 feet, with white flowers. Observed only in 
the forest district, adjoining the coast, and extending to the 
slopes of the Sierra Nevadas, 30 to 50 miles east of Santa Marta, 
below 1,500 feet. Moderately common." (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 99-) 
Posoqueria platysiphonia. 
Lower leaf-surfaces bearing scattered, short, appressed hairs, 
otherwise glabrous. Branchlets slender, striate, compressed or 
dilated slightly at the nodes. Stipules 1 cm. long, entire, ob- 
tuse, connate to form a cylindrical sheath. Petioles (only the 
upper seen) to I.5 cm. long, stout, grooved above, the groove 
extending into the midrib. Blades 1 to 2 ,5 to I2 
thin, deep-green, the venation slightly prominent bene 
Secondaries about 7 on a side, very slender, strongly ascending, 
obscurely connecting at the margin, con crooke 
long, stout, coarsely angled. Calyx open-campanulate, 6 mm. 
d, 5-costate and 5-nerved, the margin equally 
5-lobed, the lobes extremely short and broad, with rounded, 
Stamens exserted, reflexed, the filaments slender, the anthers 
puberulent, 7 mm. long, linear-oblong, mucronate, the cells 
acute at the base. 
“A small tree with long drooping branches, to 20 feet, the 
flowers creamy white. In damp forest on mountain-side near 
Valparaiso, about 4000 feet, July 5. Only one seen." (Her- 
bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1655.) Species very near P. 
Metensis (Karst.) n. c.mb., but differing in calyx-teeth, in the 
pilose corolla-lobes and the stipule-characters. 
Randia orinocensis. 
(Fruiting specimen). Glabrous except the young portions, 
which are obscurely strigose. Stipules ovate, acuminate and 
pungent, 3 mm. long. Petioles about 4 mm. long, channeled 
above, narrowly margined. Blades 3.5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to § 
