138 New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
densely hirsute on the brownish lower surface and harshly stri- 
gose on the deep-green upper surface, the venation impressed 
above and very prominent beneath, the secondaries about 11 
on a side, strongly falcate-ascending and strongly connected by 
numerous straightish tertiaries. Panicle terminal, small, very 
dense, flowers not presen Fruiting calyx 3 mm. long, 5- 
parted, the lobes linear, attenuate. Bracts 6 or 7 mm. long, 
'lance-ovate. Pyrenes 5. 
Ma 
5 
Mapiri, Bolivia, 2,500 feet, May, 1886. (Rusby, No. 2489.) 
about 25 i 
strongly falcate, the finer venation obscure. Panicles axillary 
erminal, small, short and broad, long-peduncled, the 
branches minutely bracted. Calyx r.5 mm. long and broad, 
ute. Open cor- 
ollas not seen, the nearly mature bud short and broad, the tube 
very short. 
“ A shrub to 5 feet. Rare in mountain forest, 3,000 to 5,000 
feet. December to March. Collected at Las Nubes, Decem- 
ber 5, and at Manzanares, 3,500 feet, March 1." (Herbert 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1806.) 
Psychotria olyphylla. 
, Pubescent, the upper leaf-surfaces puberulent on the mid- 
rib. Stipules about I cm. ng, linear-lanceolate and long- 
