134 NEW SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
"Santa Catalina, lower Orinoco, Venezuela, May, 1896" 
(Rusby and Squires, No. 174). ; 
Hoffmannia striata. 
Glabrous. Branches erect, stout but weak, herbaceous, the 
internodes about 4 cm. long, the leaves sub-erect. Stipules 
interpetiolar, 4 mm. long, broadly ovate, acute. Petioles 2.5 
cm. long, very slender, passing gradually into the leaf-base. 
Blades 10 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. broad, lance-oblong, with 
regularly long-acuminate base and abruptly acuminate and acute 
summit, very thin, very deep-green, the margin entire or some- 
what sinuate, the venation not prominent, the secondaries about 
I2 to I5 on each side, widely spreading, then strongly upcurved 
toward the ends. Inflorescence scanty, the cyme (but one 
seen) slightly paniculate, the peduncle shorter than its leaf, 
the branches few-flowered, the bractlets broadly ovate, acute. 
Flowers shortly and stoutly pedicelled. Calyx campanulate, 
scarcely 1 mm. long, shortly-toothed. Corolla 2 mm. long, 
broadly campanulate, the lobes broadly ovate, obtuse. 
Dissecting material wanting. 
“In forest, Sierra del Libano, 5,500 feet, May. I have but 
two specimens, without other note." (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 2409.) 
Hoffmannia viridis. 
ower leaf-surfaces very sparsely and minutely pilose. 
Branches stoutish but weak, erect. Stipules caducous, not 
seen. Petioles to 5 cm. long, passing gradually into the leaf- 
base, thin and flat-nerved. Blades 15 to 20 cm. long, 6 to 
C 
o 15 on each side, widely spreading, then strongly falcate. 
Cymes shortly peduncled, loosely and openly few-flowered, the 
pedicels filiform, to 5 mm. long. Flowering calyx-tube cam- 
panulate with the summit slightly contracted, 2 mm long, the 
limb abruptly expanded, 5-toothed, the teeth broadly triangu- 
late, acute; in fruit obovoid, 5-ribbed. Corolla not present. 
"A shrub, to 5 feet, with white flowers. A single plant 
observed in a ravine in mountain forest, Don Amo Estate, 
3,000 feet, January 18." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
2649.) ! 
Guettarda discolor. 
Young portions and lower leaf surfaces softly gray-pubes- 
cent, the upper leaf-surfaces bearing a few scattered appressed 
hairs. Branchlets stout, the short hairs strongly reflexed an 
