14 New Species of South Amehican Plants 



Staminate flower not seen. 



"From the Harqueta Mountain thicket, on a ndge, 7,500 

 feet altitude, on a tree, December 25." (Herbert H. Smith, 

 Colombia, No. 1289.) Also "On the top of the San Loranzo 

 Ridge, 7,500 feet, on trees, March 10." 



Dendrophthora striata. 



Glabrous. Stems much-branched, the branches slender, to 

 2 dm. long, strict, terete, densely leafy. Leaves i to 2.5 cm 

 long 3 to 5 mm. wide, oblanceolate with acumirate base and 

 obtuse summit, very thick, the lower portion bluntly keeled on 

 the lower surface, deep-green, much and finely wrmkled m dry- 

 ing, obscurely 3-nerved. Peduncles 5 or 6 mm. long, erect, 

 4-angled, thick and fleshy, much wrinkled, mostly bracted at 

 the base and bearing a pair of con late bractlets above the 

 middle. Spike mostly a little longer than its peduncle, stipi- 

 tate in the bractlets, thick-clavate or sub-capitate, sometimes 

 5 or 6 mm. broad, rather few-flowered. Flowers deeply im- 

 mersed, 4-merous. Calyx rotate, broad, entire, thick and 

 fleshy. Petals scarcely i mm. long, broadly triangular, thick 

 and fleshy. Rudimentary stamens sometimes present. Style 

 nearly equaling the petals, thick. Berry depressed globose. 

 Seeds 1.5 mm. long, broadly oval, strongly compressed, brown, 

 smooth and shining. 



Staminate flowers not seen. 



Unduavi, Bolivia, 3,300 M. altitude, November 1910. (Otto 

 Buchtien, No. 2818.) No. 2819, from the same locality, is a 

 young state of the same. 



Agonandra granatensis. 



Glabrous, except for a fine tomentum on the inflorescence. 

 Branchlets ascending, terete, green, leafy. Petioles about "5 

 mm. long, broad, channelled, the blades 3 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 

 2 cm. broad, ovate, with acute or obtuse base and short-acumin- 

 ate and acute summit, entire, bright-green, thick, the venation 

 obscure. Racemes axillary, simple, solitary or two or three 

 together, 3 to 6 cm. long, on short, slender peduncles, the flow- 

 ers solitary or geminate on spreading pedicels of about their - 

 own length. Flowers about 2.5 mm. long, exclusive of the 

 stamens, turbinate-campanulate before the spreading of the 

 petals. Stamens twice the length of the petals, the anthers 

 small, as broad as long. Staminodia a third the length of the 

 stamens, short-stipitate, thick and fleshy, 3-dentate, the middle 

 tooth longer. Pistillate flowers not seen. 



"A tree to 35 feet high, on damp forest trail from Don Amo 

 to the Sierra Nevada, 2000 feet,. March 12." (Herbert Smith, 

 Colombia, No. 1950.) 



