New Species of South American Plants 81 



Symplocos mapirensis. 



Specimen in fruit. Glabrous, the branchlets stout, purplish- 

 brown, very leafy, the internodes 2 to 2.5 cm. long. Petiole 

 6 to 8 mm. long, broadly and shallowly channelled above, the 

 blades 8 to 12 cm. long, 3.5 to 4 cm. broad, lanceolate with 

 rounded or obtuse base and abruptly short-acuminate obtuse 

 summit, entire, thickish, deep-green, drying blackish above and 

 yellowish underneath, the midrib lightly impressed above, 

 sharply prominent underneath, like the venation, the principal 

 secondaries about 9 on a side, interarching about three-fourths 

 of the way from the midrib to the margin. Peduncles short and 

 stout, angled, several-fruited, the pedicels very short. Fruits 

 globose, black, 6 mm. broad, the persistent calyx-lobes very 

 small, nearly semicircular. 



Mapiri, Bolivia, 2500 feet. May 1886 (H. H. Rusby, No. 

 2685.) 



Buddleia cochabambensis. 



Densely white-tomentose, excepting the upper leaf-surfaces, 

 the branchlets ascending, slender, terete. Petioles 5 to 8 mm. 

 long, margined, the blades (only the upper seen), 4 to 8 cm. 

 long, 1.5 to 3 cm. broad, lanceolate with the base very abruptly 

 contracted into the petiole, acute at the summit, unequally 

 dentate with short, broad, acute, salient teeth and rounded 

 sinuses, deep-green above, thin, the venation lightly prominent 

 beneath, the secondaries about 10 on each side, rather crooked, 

 inter-arching near the margin. Heads solitary in the axils, 

 very short peduncled, hemispherical, the largest 2 cm. broad, 

 densely flowered, the base involucrate-bracted. Flowers 4- 

 merous, 5 mm. long, the calyx two-thirds of the length, lobed 

 a third of the way, the tube turbinate, the lobes broadly ovate 

 and obtuse, the sinuses acute. Corolla maroon-purple, in the 

 dried state, lobed a third of the way, the lobes broad and rounded, 

 recurved. Anthers sessile, attached just below the sinuses. 

 Ovary short and broad, pilose like the style, which exceeds the 

 anthers, and is stout, clavate and undivided. 



"A shrub 1.5 M. high, the flowers orange-colored. Collected 

 at an altitude of 2700 meters. (Buchtien, Bolivia, No. 2408.) 



Spigelia filipes. 



A perennial herb, glabrous throughout. Stems from a 

 half to one meter high, branched above, more or less sulcate, 

 the branches very slender. Leaves 8-12 cm. long by 4 to 8 cm. 

 broad, oblanceolate to obovate, abruptly narrowed into a 

 petiole-like base, obtuse or acutish, thin, the veins very slender, 

 the principal ones about 5 pair, strongly ascending. Spikes 

 15 to 20 cm. long, very slender, curved, long-peduncled, the 



