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adnate to both corolla and androecium, the inner of 5 ovate 

 obtuse erect hyaline scales a little exceeding the stamens. 

 PoUinia minute. 



"Twining to 15 feet, the flowers white. In a forest near a 

 stream, 5 miles south of Mamateca, 250 feet, January." (Her- 

 bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1683.) 



No. 1682, from Cienago, September 11, is the same. Its 

 fruit is 9 cm. long, 1.5 cm. thick, lanceolate and long-acuminate, 

 glabrous. 



Stenomeria tomentosa. 



Densely ferruginous-tomentellate. Branchlets stout, terete, 

 very leafy. Petioles about 5 mm. long, stout, sub-terete, the 

 bases connected by an interpetiolar line. Blades 2 to 4 cm. 

 long, 12 to 20 mm. wide, oval with rounded base and very abrupt- 

 ly acuminate and cuspidate summit, thick and fleshy, yellowish, 

 the margin revolute, the venation lightly impressed above, 

 scarcely prominent beneath. Spikes axillary, mostly longer 

 than the leaves, bearing the sessile flowers fascicled at the nodes, 

 and about i cm. apart. Calyx parted to the base, thin, the 

 lobes scarcely i mm. long, ovate, acute. Corolla 6 or 7 mm. 

 long, parted more than halfway, the tube narrowly campanu- 

 late or cylindraceous, the lobes linear. Scales of the crown 

 adnate to the base of the stamen-tube, very small, half the 

 length of the stamens, ovate, acuminate, hyaline. Style 3 mm. 

 long, inclusive of the branches, bifid a third of its length, the 

 branches somewhat spreading. 



"A vine in the forest of Minca, 2,000 feet, June 14" (Her- 

 bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1523). Apparently the same as 

 Jenman's No. 7087. 



Species extreme, in its tomentum and its bifid style. 



Metastelma (§ Eumetastelma) atrovirens. 



Glabrous. Stems slender, the leaves much crowded in 

 places, distant in others. Petioles 3 to 6 cm. long, narrowly 

 channeled above, almost imperceptibly puberulent. Blades 1.5 

 to 2.5 cm. long, 9 to 10 mm. wide, elliptical, sub-cordate at the 

 base and mucronulate at the summit, the margin revolute, 

 thickish, drying brown, the lower surface minutely downy under 

 a stiong lens, the venation not prominent, the secondaries 6 

 on a side, spreading, somewhat crooked, upcurved at the ends, 

 the remaining venation obscure. Fascicles subsessile, many 

 flowered. Pedicels shorter than the flowers, minutely bracte- 

 olate at the base. Calyx 1.5 mm. long, thin, green, lobed nearly 

 to the base, the lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla 7 or 8 mm. long, 

 divided nearly to the base, the lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, the 



