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NEw SPECIES 6F SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 185 
somewhat yellowish. Stipules 15 mm. long, broadly ovate, 
acuminate and acute, thin, brown, early deciduous.  Petioles 
to 2.5 cm. long, nerved or lightly costate toward the base, the 
summit gradually widening into the leaf-base. Blades 7 to 
10 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, oval or ovate and abruptly acumi- 
nate and acute at both ends, thickish, light-gray beneath, with 
the venation strongly prominent, deep-green above, the second- 
aries 9 or IO on a side, strongly falcate-ascending and connect- 
with the summits strongly inflexed. Open flowers not seen. 
Anthers attached by very short filaments, oblong. Stigma 
2-lobed. 
“In mountain forest, Sierra del Libano, 5,500 feet, March 2. 
Collected from a fallen branch, its tree not found." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1809.) 
Guettarda roupalaefolia. 
ube I2 mm. lon mm. wide, somewhat dilated 
g mm 
summi the 6 lobes 6 mm. long, 4 2 : 
roun y de Stamens 6, the anthers sessile, reaching the 
base of the corolla-lobes, 4.5 mm. long, linear, widening slightly 
