146 NEw SPECIES OF SoUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
ascending, the venation finely reticulate, impressed yv. 
prominent underneath.  Pedicels in the upper axils, 4 to 8 cm. 
ong, bearing two lance-linear bracts at about the middle. 
reticulate veined. lla du IL red, go within, somewhat 
declined, the tube ee cm. long, infundibular, Ee 
inequilateral, the lower fobes a little more than r cm. long, 
lanceolate, acute, nearly ai spreading or recurved, the upper 
xi shortly 2-lobed, the lobes narrowly lanceolate. Anthers 
out 8 mm. long, curved, the upper naked, the stigmas lightly 
EA 
“Somewhat diffuse, the branches erect to 4 or 5 feet. Com- 
mon on open lands of Sierra del Libano and San Lorenzo Ridge, 
6,000 to 7,500 feet. Collected January 25 at about 6,500 feet.” 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1384.) 
oe sagt eec foliosum. 
All young portions and both leaf-surfaces densely Loria 
ish- Pe homies the older portions more sparsely so. Ste 
erect, stout, flexuous, coarsely sulcate, densely leafy pris 
Petioles 3 to 5 cm. en ng, stout, ascending, the blades 10 to 15 
cm. long, 4 to 6 cm. broad, ovate, abruptly contracted into 
the petiole, Bl. Sbrepde a at the acute summit, 
pascal serrate-dentate, the teeth minute; thin, yellowish- 
summit, the seam acute lobes a little longer, apprend 
about s base of ane corolla. Tube of the corolla ut 3-5 
cm. lon e as pressed, the back fissured haltet 
fufoddibular, ET and equable, or nearly so nly 
longer, its two lobes lance- -ovate, acuminate and acute, the 
lower less deeply three-lobed, the lobes sub- equal, and of similar 
form to the upper. St tamen-column pilose, its exserted portion 
about 10 mm. long, the anthers nearly 1 cm. lon ng, the lower 
strongly white-penicillate. Stigma large, pilose, sub-equally 
p 
Piptocar ti Bicis: 
ower surfaces of young leaves and other young portions 
minutely white- tomentellate. Branchlets slender, elongated, 
