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deciduous bractlers, the branches short, very stout, angled or 
costate, yellow or orange. Calyx fleshy, articulated to the 
base of the anther, which is wholly included, linear, 5 mm. long, 
the muca thickened black connective extending to the summit. 
Disk tnick, fleshy, cup-shaped, with the mouth much con- 
tracted. 
“A gnarled tree, 10 feet high. Top of San Lorenzo ridge, 
about 7,500 feet, March (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
1815). 
Apparently the same as Triana’s No. 1653. 
Palicourea caloneura. 
Lower leaf-surfaces more or less pilose. Branchlets stout, 
terete, purple, densely leafy to the summit. Interpetiolar 
stipules 4 or 5 mm. long, broadly ovate and abruptly contracted 
the groove extended into the midrib. Blades 4 to 6 cm. long, 
I.5 to 2.5 cm. wide, oblong, acute at both ends, sharply revolute 
to on a si ely 
the crooked tertiaries, pilose with divaricate hairs. Thyrse 
terminal, sessile, small, little exceeding the upper leaves, sparsely 
l X I.5 mm. long and broad, the tube 
turbinate-campanulate, the teeth extremely short, obtuse. 
Corolla-tube 5 mm. long, narrow, cylindrical, gibbous at the: 
base, strongly nerved, the throat 2 mm. long, campanulate, the 
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“A shrub, 2 to 4 feet high, the flowers dull pinkish. Ex- 
treme top of San Lorenzo Ridge, 7,200 feet, February 27." 
(Herbert _ H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1808.) 
Palicourea Williamsii. 
Glabrous except the densely pubescent flowers. Branch- 
lets slender, terete. Stipules interpetiolar, 6 or 8 mm. long, 
