New SPECIES or SovTH AMERICAN PLANTS 145 
qual, hyaline, nod obtuse. Corolla 2 mm. lon m- 
d m 
B ouiste lobe than half-way, the lobes prosak fires 
obtuse, the ctim exserted, the filaments ied Capsule 
obovoid- oval, stipitate, compressed, setose, the margins acute, 
the calyx- lobes persistent and somewhat enlarged, rigid and 
acute. Seed oblong, compressed, tuberculat 
“Erect or ascending, to 2 feet, the d white. Local in 
open grasslands, 2,000 to 5,000 feet. Collected in Cuaco Mount- 
ains, 4,500 feet, April 27." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 
0. 32L. 
_»Siphocampylus rectiflorus. 
Gray-tomentellate throughout, the calyx very sli ghtly 
Suffructicose, the branches ascending, slender, on ribbed 
and sulcate, be internodes unequal, mostly 2 to 4 cm. long. 
Petioles 8 to 12 mm. long, slender, the blades 4 i 6 cm. long, 
nate acute summit, dentate with short triangular acute salient 
teeth and shallow concave sinu e olitary i e 
axils, half or more the length of the -n slender, spreading 
Calyx-tube turbinate, about half as long the lobes 
long, divided to the base into 2 linear obtuse lobes, the outer 
Eros longer, divided two-thirds or more of the way into 3- 
wly lanceolate sub-equal lobes. Two oe ibis 
bearin 
Bongi and densely porre at the summit and 
k, a few coarse i. bristles, the 
below this tuft, upon the bac eve gate 
two adjacent to them slinilade dnd more strongly ba 
the central one densely penicillate gocat its summit. pé e 
at length well exserted and recurved, the stigma M les Lco the 
upper lip rounded, large, the lower small, lightly 1 
"Shrubby or suffrutescent and more or less diffuse, 3 feet." 
Occasional in damp clearings and open places along streams at 
about 4,500 feet. Collected at Las Nubes, December 5, (Her- 
bert H. Smith, No. 1 
$ Siphocampylus declinatus. m 
Younger portions of stems, petioles and veins T the qui 
kirsua bearing scattered, very short white ed o A : 
r hes erect, slender, strongly sulcate, 
lanceolate with rounded base and long-acumina 
obsoletely coarse-serrate, thin, the pritdipdl veins strongly 
