140 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
short, acute acumination which is mostly oblique; thin, but 
pair of small bractlets, the middle flower sessile, the lateral 
shortly and stoutly pedicelled. Calyx 1.5 mm. long and broad, 
the tube turbinate, the limb spreading, very shortly toothed. 
Corolla-tube proper 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, cylindraceous, 
sharply angled, the throat a e broader, two-thirds as long, 
pilose like the lobes, which are 3 mm. long, lanceolate, thick, 
spreading or os as the point Andy inflexed, the midrib 
a puberulent within, long- pilose in the 
throat. |o. short, inserted at the summit of the tube, 
SR 
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way from the base, the summits exserted. cies stout, Mu 
stigmas large, flattened, n a little more than 1 mm. 
Disk annular, very slightly crenate. Fruit eee, globa 
5 or 6 mm. broad, obtusely IO-ribbed, tipped by the persistent 
inflexed calyx-limb, the conspicuous MT disk half as broad 
as the calyx-limb. Pyrenes finely puberulent, lightly 3-ribbed 
a 2. back and one-grooved on the face. Seed grooved upon 
the tace 
“A tree to 35 feet, the flowers, pedicels and berries white, 
the latter about !4 inch in diameter. Common locally in 
mountain forest, 3,500 to 5,000 feet, January to May. Col- 
lected at Valparaiso, 4,500 feet, April r1. (Herbert H. Smith, 
No. 1828.) 
Psyct otria salicifolia. 
saab: = sparsely and minutely puberulent. Stipules 
short, ovate, mostly with the summits involute, connected by 
an iieri edolir sheath with truncate summit.  Petioles abott 
mm 
