70 New Species of South American Plants 



cm. long, 4 to 5 cm. broad, ovate, the rounded base slightly 

 produced into the petiole, the summit acuminate, obtuse ; entire, 

 thin, the coarsely reticulate venation, sharply prominent on the 

 upper surface, the principal secondaiies about 8 on each side, 

 strongly falcately ascending. Spikes axillary or a few forming 

 a loos° terminal panicle, in the young bud state much shorter 

 than the leaves, cylindrical and very densely flowered, the ob- 

 lanceolate acute bracts much longer than the buds, the rachis 

 very thick, strongly angled. Bud closely sessile, wholly yellow, 

 the tube cylindrical, 1.5 mm. long, the head spherical, i mm. 

 broad, the calyx-limb thick, 4-merous, pilose within. Petals 

 not found, perhaps wanting. Spikes greatly elongating in 

 fruit, the fruits densely arranged, on recurved pedicels about 

 2 rnm. long, leaving the rachis sharply nodose after falling. 

 Fruits 10 mm. long, 12 or 13 mm. broad, inclusive of the wings, 

 which are about 2 mm. broad, irregularly and lightly crenate, 

 both ends rounded or sub-truncate, the summit with a very 

 short' broad style-base, the color deep-brown. 



"Collected near Masinga, 250 feet, February 6." (Herbert 

 H. Smith, Colombia, No. 874.) 



Combretum oblongifoliutn. 



Glabrate, the branchlets elongated, slender, terete except 

 above. Petioles about 3 mm. long, stout, the blades 5 to 10 

 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, oblong, varying to oblanceolate, 

 rounded or minutely cordate at the base, and with an abrupt, 

 very short broad point at the summit, entire, thia, the prin- 

 cipal secondaries about 9 on each side, prominent on both sur- 

 faces, especially beneath, the venation finely reticulate, the 

 upper surface somewhat shining. Panicles axillary and ter- 

 minal, much exceeding their leaves, long-peduncled, the rachis 

 strongly angled and sulcate, the spikes occasionally leafy-, 

 bracted at the base, short-peduncled, the peduncle and rachis 

 angled, minutely ferruginous, 6 to 10 cm. long, rather loosely 

 flowered. Flowers closely sessile, subulate bracted at the base, 

 the slender summit of the bracts recurved, about two-thirds 

 the length of the calyx-tube, the latter 2 mm. long, angled, 

 little contracted at the base, the upper third gradually con- 

 tracted to the base of the limb, which is urceolate in the bud, 

 when expanded campanulate, 2 mm. broad and not quite so 

 long, the teeth very short and broad. Petals reflexed, almost 

 semicircular, 2 mm. broad, the margin entire. Stamens and 

 style about equal, about twice the length of the calyx-limb or a 

 little more, the anther very small, triangular-ovoid. Fruit 

 described below. 



"A high scandent shrub in forest, Calavasa, 600 feet, De- 

 cember 28. A series of specimens from the same plant have 

 the panicles nearly glabrous, the clusters much larger than in 



