136 NEw SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
upward, acute, Style stoutish, the stigma reaching nearly to 
the middle of the corolla-lobes, capitate, the summit concave. 
“Three miles east of Masinga, June 12, the trees blossoming 
freely, the corolla pinkish. Minca, 2000 ft., July." (Herbert H. 
Smith, Colombia, No. 441.) ie: 
Mr. Smith sends another specimen with ripe fruit, collected 
at Masinga in November, saying "fruit of 441." his has 
much smaller leaves, with different summit, and will probably 
prove distinct. The following is its description. 
Branchlets short, stoutish, dark-brown, the leaves crowded. 
Stipules 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse, strongly 
3- to 5-nerved, rigid, pubescent, like the petioles, peduncles 
and lower leaf-surfaces. Petioles 10 to 20 mm. lon , the 
4 to 8 cm. long and half or more as wide, rhomboidally obovate, 
abruptly short-acuminate with rounded base, entire lightly 
condaries IO or 
12 0n a side, slender, strongly ascending, slightly curved, sharply 
prominent underneath. , Peduncles longer than the petioles, 
i ruits 8 
I2 mm. long, two-thirds as broad, oval to sub-globose, deep 
purple, pubescent, the flesh abundant, drying to form a con- 
spicuous wing-like margin, the persistent calyx-limb conspicu- 
ous, tubular. 
"Near Madinge, 500 feet, November. Fruit dark crimson- 
purple.” 
Mapourea biacuminata. 
Glabrous. Branchlets slender, very narrowly 2-winged 
toward the summit. Stipule 6 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, brown, 
deciduous. Petioles about 15 mm. long, stout, narrowly mar- 
sharply quadrilateral, the branches still more so, the bracts 
and bractlets small, ovate, acute, the flowers mostly very short- 
pedicelle . Calyx 2 mm. broad, very broadly campanulate, 
divided nearly to the base, the lobes triangular-ovate, acute, 
thick. Corolla-tube campanulate, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, the limb 
rved, 7 or 8 mm. broad when fully expanded, 
the tube densely pilose within, the lobes ovate, slightly saccate 
