82 New Species of South American Plants 



flowers 2 or 3 mm. apart. Flowers 2.5 cm. long, very slender, 

 light-red, the calyx 3-4 mm. long, parted almost to the base, 

 the lobes setaceous, erect, with spreading tips. Corolla-tube 

 slightly dilated just above the middle, the lobes short and 

 broad. Seed-pod yellowish, about two-thirds the length of the 

 calyx, ovate and acuminate. 



Collected by Rusby and Squires on Eleanor Creek, lower 

 Orinoco, in May, 1896. (No. 145). 

 Aspidosperma elliptica. 



Inflorescence and young stems puberulent, the lower leaf- 

 surfaces gray-downy, with almost imperceptible hairs. Branch- 

 lets short, spreading, leafy. Petioles 6 to 8 mm. long, stout, 

 the blades 4 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, oblong or oval 

 with rounded base and summit, thick, pale-green and dull, 

 the venation prominent on both sides, strongly so beneath, the 

 secondaries about 15 on each side, with some additional fainter 

 ones, widely spreading, nearly straight, bifurcating at the ends 

 and inter-connecting, the remaining venation finely and strongly 

 reticulate. Peduncles (in flower) about 2 cm. long. Cymes 

 compound, 4 or 5 cm. broad, rather densely flowered, the bracts 



1 or 2 mm. long, ovate, acute, the flowers subsessile and crowded 

 at the ends of the branchlets. Flower 4 or 5 mm. long, the 

 cal}^ a little more than a third of the length, lobed nearly to 

 the base, the lobes broadly ovate, acutish, lightly carinate. 

 Corolla-lobes more than half as long as the tube, thick, densely 

 pilose at the base. Anthers deltoid-ovate, nearly half as long 

 as the corolla-lobes. Style exceeding the calyx. Ovary short 

 and broad, minutely puberulent. Follicle 4 cm. long, nearly 



2 cm. broad, falcately oblong, softly whitish-papillose, a line 

 running along the middle of the side. Seed oval, 1.25 cm. long 

 and nearly as broad, narrowly margined on both sides by tjie 

 wing, which extends below it about 3 mm. and nearly 2 cm. 

 above and is falcately lance-oblong, and of a whitish or pale- 

 brown color. 



"Rather rare in forests and open lands. Collected at 

 Masinga Vieja, 800 feet, April 25, and at Bonda, in February. 

 (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 836, in part). 



Mr. Smith collected two species under this number. That 

 with acuminate base and shining upper surface of leaf and very 

 small, narrow, thick and crescentic pods, appears to heA.de- 

 cipiens Mull. Arg. 

 Tabernaemontana longiflora. 



Glabrous. Branchlets irregularly quadrilateral. Petioles 5 

 or 6 mm. long, very stout, broadly channelled on the upper 

 side. Blades 7 to 15 cm. long by 3-5 cm. wide, oblong, short- 



