78 New Species of South American Plants 



beneath, obscurely 3-nerved, the venation inconspicuous. 

 Flowers solitary in the axils, erect or somewhat spreading, the 

 short stout pedicels enclosed in imbricated, broad, ovate bracts. 

 Calyx campanulate, closely enclosed by a pair of bracts 3 mm. 

 long and much broader, with broad rounded summits, thick 

 and rigid, the calyx exceeding the bracts, 4-lobed, the tube 

 about as long as the lobes, turbinate, obscurely 4-angled, the 

 lobes erect, ovate, thick, obtusish. Calyx in flower of the same 

 red color as the corolla, in fruit enlarging more or less and be- 

 coming greenish, with minute brown tips. Corolla about twice 

 the length of the calyx, deep-red, the tube cylindrical and more 

 than half as broad as long, pilose within, thick and tough, the 

 4 lobes half as long as the tube, strongly recurved, ovate, 

 obtuse. Stamens 8, a little longer than the corolla-tube, at- 

 tached lightly to its very base, distinct, the filaments a half 

 longer than the anthers, dorsally flattened, densely pilose, 

 narrowing regularly from the summit to the base. Anthers at 

 the base as broad as the top of the filament, the bodies short, 

 the two awns long. Ovary extremely short, discoid, con- 

 stricted around the middle, 5-lobed at the summit, which is 

 depressed in the center, the style stout, straight, a little longer 

 than the stamens, the stigma truncate. Very young fruit 

 globose, with a thick, annular, light-colored epigynous disk, 

 depressed in the center, the style deciduous. 



Fragmentary specimen unique. Collected in Bolivia, prob- 

 ably by M. Bang, in the vicinity of Cochabamba, but data 

 completely wanting. 



Psammisia elegans. 



Glabrous. Branchlets slender, coarsely angled above, very 

 leafy at the summit. Petioles about i cm. long, blackish, 

 stout. Blades 15 to 20 cm. long, 7 to 10 cm. broad, ovate with 

 broadly rounded base and abruptly short-acuminate obtuse 

 summit, entire, thin, drying brownish, the slender venation 

 sharply prominent beneath, 2 pair of ribs originating flabellately 

 near the base of the midrib and running by a series of loops 

 nearly to the summit, one or two pair of smaller ones originat- 

 ing beneath them, the remaining venation loosely reticulate. 

 Peduncles (detached in my specimen) elongated, slender, striate, 

 naked, the pedicels crowded at and near the summit, 3 or 4 cm. 

 long, slender, bracted at the base, with small, ovate, acumi- 

 nate bracts, and 2-bracteolate below the middle, the bractlets 

 very small, ovate, acute. Calyx articulated to the pedicel, the 

 tube campanulate, 5 mm. long and mostly wider, the limb i 

 cm. or more wide, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes very broad 

 with narrow acute sinuses and rounded mucronulate summit. 

 Corolla 2.5 cm. long, 6 mm. broad in the slightly ventricose 

 lower portion, contracted toward the summit, the teeth short, 



