52 New Species of South American Plants 



extremely thin, bright-green, minutely pilose, the secondaries 

 about 8 or 9 on a side, very slender, crooked, widely spreading, 

 mostly forked at about the middle. Involucres on elongated 

 filiform peduncles, the tube greea, about 1.5 mm. long and 

 broad, turbinate-campanulate, the lobes very small, obscure, 

 the petaloid appendages 4, sub-equal, oval or obovate, finely 

 nerved, more or less bifid. Stamens exceeded by the erect 

 petaloid appendages, the globose anther-cells separated. Pis- 

 tillate flower long exserted, the peduncle very slender. Ovary 

 obovoid, the summit depressed, the styles stout, distinct, parted 

 to the base. Capsule 2 or 3 mm. long, the seed black, strongly 

 longitudinally mammillose-tuberculate. 



"Suifruticose, 4 to 6 feet, erect-branching. Common 

 locally in dry forest and clearings below 500 feet, September 

 to November, or later. Collected in dry forest in low hills 8 

 miles east of Cienaga, 300 feet, September 11." (Herbert H. 

 Smith, Colombia, No. 359.) 



Ilex imbricata. 



Branchlets roughened with coarse trichomes, which are scale- 

 like at the base and terminating in coarse hairs. Branchlets 

 numerous, angled, densely leafy. Petioles 3 mm. long, broad, 

 channelled above, the blades 1 to 1.5 cm. long, and nearly as 

 broad, elliptical-oval to rotund, thick and coriaceous, the mar- 

 gin revolute, distantly and lightly dentate, the venation lightly 

 impressed above, lightly prominent beneath, coarsely reticulate. 

 Stipules and bracts subulate, very small. Flowers solitary or 

 two or three on the peduncle, the pedicels about as long as the 

 petioles, thickened toward the summit. Calyx 2 mm. wide, 

 crateriform, the sepals "ovate, acute or obtuse. Corolla about 

 twice the length of the sepals, the lobes rounded, and a little 

 longer than the stamens, the anthers as broad or broader than 

 long. Ovary ovoid, as long as the calyx, the stigma capitate, 

 sessile, very large'. Fruit globose, venose, 4 or 5 mm. broad, 

 2-sulcate, tipped by the very short broad stigma. 



"A tree of 3 m. at Unduavi, Bolivia, 3,300 M. altitude, 

 November, 1910. (Otto Buchtein, No. 2934.) 



Salacea sphaerocarpa. 



Glabrous, the branchlets stout, terete, leafy. Petioles about 

 6 mm. long, stout, grooved above, more or less scurfy. Blades 

 10 to 15 cm. long, 5 to 7 cm. broad, lance-oblong with abruptly 

 and very shortly cuneate base and abruptly acuminate and 

 obtusish summit, entire, thin, bright-green, the midrib prom- 

 inent on both surfaces, the venation depressed above and 

 prominent beneath, the principal secondaries 10 to 12 on each 

 side, very strongly falcate and scarcely connecting at the mar- 



