New SPECIES or SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 141 
teeth very short and broad, obtuse. Corolla-tube 5 mm. long, 
2 mm. wide, as pressed, straight, equal, pilose within, the lobes 
3 mm. long, triangular-ovate, acute, strongly recurved. ila- 
ments extremely short, inserted at the summit of the tube, the 
anthers linear, nearly as long as the corolla-lobes, half exserted. 
Specimen unique, collected in Bolivia by M. Bang, without 
number, locality or date, but probably from near Cochabamba. 
quem populifolia. 
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upcurved and connecting near the margin. Panicle (fruiting) 
many-nerved peduncle nearly 
i he length of the fruit. Fruit 
E oso d m. Pica. somewhat flattened, 
eeply 3-sulcate on each side, tipped by the persistent, vay 
small, shortly 5-toothed calyx-limb and the hemispherical disk. 
yrene deeply grooved on the face. 
“A tree, 20 feet high, in mountain forest above Las Nubes, 
5000 feet, December 17.” (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
1833.) Apparently the same collected by Purdie at Santa 
Marta and perhaps by Spruce at Tarapota. 
Palicourea abbreviata. 
surface, strongly prominent beneath, t an 
about 10 on a side, very strongly falcate, oci m sd 
crooked tertiaries. Thyrse terminal, parta lié or scarious 
sessile, dense, bearing small, ovate, obtuse, hya 
