New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 137 
just below the whitish tip. Filaments very short, inserted into 
the margin of the tube, the anthers ovoid, exserted. Style 
about as long as the corolla-tube, thickened upward, the o 
short, flattened. Fruit globose, 3 mm. broad, the pyrenes 2, 
deeply 3-sulcate. Seed 3-grooved on the back, flat on the face 
or with several irregular slight, crooked channels. 
“A tree to 20 feet, with white flowers in May and June, 
Occasional in dry forest, 500 to 2,500 feet. Collected at Minca, 
2,000 feet, May 31 and in fruit at Escalera pt los Indios, August 
2." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1826.) 
Mapourea latifolia. 
Lower surface of the young leaves sparsely sup minutely 
puberulent. Branchlets stout, terete. Stipules 6 
long, very broad, ovate, deciduous. Petioles to i cm. long, 
passing gradually into the narrow leaf-base. Blades 1 to 3 dm. 
long, 6 to 12 cm. wide, ovate with both ends very A ird 
and shortly "m and acute, Zz. thin, deep- ee 
connecting, the remaining venation obscure. Inflorescence 
terminal, sessile, widely branched, the branches paniculate, 
rather densely flowered, the bracts minute. Flowers very 
calyx-tube, which is campan Milat te, about 1 mm. long, the limb 
Style clavate, tha stigmas flattened, oblong r ovate. 
“A tree to 20 feet, with white ies and pedicels. In 
damp forest, near stream. Cacagualita, 1,500 feet, May. 
Also in alluvial forest, Don Diego, near the coast, May 17. 
The one first-named is the type. (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia 
No. 1805). No. 24 405, from "mountain forest near Cacagualita, 
2,500 feet, June 16,” appears to be the same. 
Psychotria (Trichocephala) odis 
i Stems stout- 
some of them 
stout, the 
I5 to4c sage di. lancent with 
acutish base and narrowly ud summit, entire, thick, 
