(494) 
young fruit drying black, truncate, pee erent in 
outline, bearing the short blunt st style in the center and surrounded, 
and a little exceeded by the tHe, stout, Cee eee! al 
eye 
“Climbing over trees, Isapuri, 1550 ft., Oct. 5, 1901” (No. 721). 
Monstera boliviana sp. nov. 
Petioles reaching 30 cm. or more in length, very stout, the sheath 
extending to the base of the blade, finely many- ribbed, minutely 
oo at the base, shortly abrupt-acuminate and acute at 
the summit, ae ted on both side es, the ae ee long and 
em. long, 13 mm. thick, cylindrical; summit of fruit about .4 mm 
“Common on trees, Isapuri, 1500 ft., Oct. 10, 1901” (No. 676). 
Monstera unilatera sp. nov. 
Petioles 7-12 cm. long, the sheath extending to within 6 or 
mm. of the blade, its base meeting about the stem, wholly de- 
ciduous and leaving a slender annulus, very finely many striate; 
teral, the mar f the n 
convex, very slightly and abruptly produced at the base, a ruptly 
short-acuminate and acute at the summit, bearing from 1-3 (?) 
eet on the larger side only, these broadly oblong or oval, 
of small or medium size; veins very numerous, very slender, strongly 
upcurved, obscurely connecting; peduncle solitary i in my specim 
6.5 cm. long, curved, slightly enlarged upward, striate; spathe Hic 
40 mm. long, oblong-ov al, finely many-nerved; fruiting spadix 
(mature?) oe cal, _ apparently about 60 mm. oe nearly 
12 mm. thick, the fruit hghtly concave upon the sumn 
“San Buena Ventura 1400 ft., Nov. 25, rgo1” (No. a 
MusacEakE 
Heliconia Pearcei sp. nov. 
Glabrous; petiole of the one leaf seen 13. cm. long, costate 
above the sheath; blade 8 dm. long, 15 cm. broad, oblong, oblique 
at the base, shortly ener gee the midrib s strong, nearly 
terete, yellow, the venation very fine and regular, nearly at right 
angles with the midrib; bracts about 2.5 cm. apart, 5-15 cm. ne 
