New Species of South American Plants Ic 



"A tree 15 feet high, in dry forest, Bonda, 150 feet, April 

 -9" (No. 1771). 



Apodanthes tribracteata. 



Plant in fruit, glabrous, the fruits closely sessile in the 

 crevices of the bark of a tree-trunk. Bracts three, slightly 

 unequal, coherent at the base, about 5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide 

 ovate with rounded summit, thick and fleshy, shining, especially 

 on the inner surface, slightly concave, closely enclosing the bast 

 of the calyx, which is adnate to about the middle of the fruit 

 nearly i cm. long, 4-lobed about two-thirds of the way, th« 

 lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, the upper half free, the sinuses 

 closed or narrow for most of their length. Fruit 13 mm. long 

 and 10 mm. wide, globose-ovoid. , Stigma sessile, unless its 

 lower two-thirds be regarded as a style, two or three mm. long 

 and of rather greater breadth, ovoid-conical, minutely puberu- 

 lent or granular, the summit plane. Placentae four, laterally 

 •expanded to line the cavity, lontitudinally plicate, perhaps as 

 the result of drying. Seeds miaute, very numerous. 



"Near Inglis — Inglis, Bolivia, 550 feet altitude, on a tref 

 trunk, the fruit yellowish-green, August 8, 1902." (R. S 

 Williams, No. 1580.) 



Ruprechtia tenuiflora Benth (?) 



Santa Catalina, lower Orinoco, Venezuela (Rusby and 

 Squires, No. 417). 



Dr. Prain, Director of the Kew Botanical Garden, to whon 



1 referred this plant, states that it is closely allied to the species 

 here named. Since my specimen is only a fragment of the 

 pistillate plant, in flower, and I have no specimen of R. tenui- 

 flora for comparison, I must thus dispose of it for the present 



Allionia craterimorpha. 



Softly pilose with spreading white hairs. Stems diffuse 

 the branches very slender, the internodes 5 to 7 cm. long 

 strongly angled and sulcate. Leaves of the pair unequal, th< 

 blender petioles very unequal, up to 3 cm. long, the blades ;; 

 to 6 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, inequilaterally ovate, the trun 

 ■cata base oblique, the summit acuminate and acute; entire 

 thin, the principal veins broad and flat. Inflorescence lonj 

 and slenderly peduncled, loosely branched. Involucres crateri 

 form or nearly hemispherical, about i cm. broad, lobed aboui 

 half-way, the broadly ovate obtusish lobes sub-equal, strongly 

 purple- veined. Flowers 3, sessile, the calyx-tube scarcely 



2 mm. long, obovoid, 5-ribbed, pilose, the limb urceolate o: 

 campanulate with contracted margin, about twice as wide a: 



