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Colombia, No. 1905). No. 1906 appears to be the same. Its 

 petioles are a little shorter and the leaf -base less acuminate. 

 Its fruits are about 8 mm. broad. Of it Smith says, "A 

 shrub, to 8 feet, near a stream in dry forest 5 miles north of Bonda, 

 100 to 200 feet. Berry red, at length black. Flowers April 28, 

 fruit January 14." 



Echites Sanctae-Martae. 



Lower leaf surfaces, at least when young, tomentellate and 

 somewhat ferruginous, the stems very slender, terete. Petioles 

 I to 2 cm. long, slender, sulcate, th° blades 6 to 10 cm. long, 1.5 

 to 4 cm. broad, lanceolate with rounded or blunt base and 

 acuminate and acute summit, very thin; deep-green, the slender 

 venation little prominent, the secondaries about 5 on each side, 

 ascending and falcately connecting near the margin. Peduncle 

 a little longer than the petioles, stout, bifid, the branches densely 

 several-flowered, the bracts minute, the pedicels about half as 

 long as the peduncle. Calyx 6 or 7 mm. long, divided nearly 

 to' the base, the sinuses open, the lobes herbaceous, narrow, 

 tapering regularly from the base to the acute summit. Corolla- 

 tube 1.5 cm. long, cylindrical, contracted slightly at the summit, 

 the throat 6 mm. long, campanulate, the limb 2 cm. broad. 

 Glands absent, the disk 2 mm. long, nearly equaling the ovaries, 

 of 5 more or less connate, very thick scales with rounded sum- 

 mits. Ovaries cohersnt. Stamens attached at the summit of 

 the tube, the surface pilose, the filaments very short, the an- 

 thers 3 or 4 mm. long, sharply acuminate, as are the basal lobes. 

 Style very slender, the stigma conical, with a concave membran- 

 eous appendage a little below, apparently from the anthers. 

 Follicles unequal, the longer 4 or 5 dm. long, very slender, 

 torulose. 



"Twining to 40 or 50 feet. Occasional in damp forest, 

 3,000 to 4,500 fest. Corolla magenta-crimson. Collected 

 above Jinacasaca, 3,000 feet, August 25." (Herbert H. Smith, 

 Colombia, No. 2525.) 

 Echites Laurentiae-disca. 



Glabrous, the stems slender, terete, the petioles 6 to 10 mm. 

 long, slender, sub-carinate on the lower surface, the blades 5 

 to 10 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. wide, ovate with rounded very 

 slightly produced base and short-acuminate and acute summit, 

 thick and smooth, the venation prominent beneath, the second- 

 ares about 6 on each side, falcate and inter-arching at some 

 distance from the maigin, the venation spaise and coarsely 

 reticulate. Peduncle 2 to 2.5 cm. long, the raceme simple, 

 bractless, the pedicels 6 or 7 mm. long, slender. Calyx 2 mm. 

 long, 4 mm. broad, the lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla- tube 1.5 



