42 New Species of South Ameeican Plants 



late summit, thick, deep-green, drying brownish or beneath 

 yellowish, the indumentum short and dense on both sides, 

 especially above, the venation prominent beneath, the secon- 

 daries about 8 on each side, widely spreading, crooked, con- 

 necting about three-fourths of the way from the midrib to 

 the margin, the venation loosely reticulate. Racemes in the 

 upper axils or sub-paniculate at the summit, small, short- 

 peduncled, the flowers very shortly stout-pedicelled. Outer 

 sepals thick and rigid, densely hairy and cihate, about 3 mm. 

 long and broad, ovate with rounded summit, the lateral mod- 

 erately inaequilateral ; the inner deep blue, ciliate at the base, 

 pilose on the keel, 5 mm. long, 6 mm. broad when fully ex- 

 panded, venose. Lower petal 5 mm. long and much broader, 

 pale, venose, thin, obscurely 3-lobed. Lateral petals 5 mm. 

 long, the brownish thick, basal portion triangular and acum- 

 inate, the limb thin, blue, inflexed, obovate, about 1 mm. long. 

 Stamen-tube about half the length of the lateral petals, strongly 

 nerved, pilose, the summit fimbriate, the fimbriae nearly as 

 long as the slender, curved filaments, the anthers small. Ovary 

 oval, ellipsoidal, 2 mm. long, puberulent, the style stout, broad, 

 incurved. 



A vine-like shrub to 3 meters at Unduavi, Bolivia, Novem- 

 ber 1910, 3,300 M. altitude. (Otto Buchtien, No. 2887.) 



Phyllanthus (§ Cicca) heteromorpha. 



Plant divecious. Pubescent. Branches flexuous, stoutish, 

 gray, more or less muricate and nodose, the branchlets numer- 

 ous, short, spreading or divergent. Flowers sppearing either 

 before the leaves and densely clothing the branchlets, or with 

 the young leaves and their less abundant stipules, which are 

 about 3 mm. long, ovate, acuminate, purple, persistent. Leaves 

 in the flowering specimens 1 to 3.5 cm. long, in fruit, 5 to 10 cm. 

 long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, varying from oblong to ovate and obo- " 

 vate, the base acutish and with a very short petiole, very abruptly 

 short-pointed and acutish, entire, thin, bright-green, sparsely 

 strigose above, pubescent beneath, where the venation is con- 

 spicuous, the very slender secondaries about 10 on a sidet the 

 outer portions strongly falcate and more or less looped together 

 at some distance from the margin, the venation rather coarsely 

 anastomosing. Flowers loosely or densely fascicled on the 

 short node-like branchlets, the very slender pedicels varying 

 from 2 to 3 mm. long. 



Staminate flowers. — Sepals 4, spatulate or sub-rotund, 1. 5 

 mm. long, thio, the disk thickish, crateriform or annular, the 

 filaments but little longer than the oval anthers, the cells of 

 which are parallel and contiguous; or in some of the flowers the 

 filaments elongated, exceeding the sepals. 



Pistillate fiowers not seen. Fruiting pedicels 5 mm. long. 

 Fruit apparently somewhat fleshy, 1 cm. broad, a Uttle more 



