108 New Species of South American Plants 



into a short, broad, acute terminal acumination, entire, bright- 

 green, thin, the slender venation lightly prominent underneath, 

 the secondaries about 7 on a side, strongly falcately ascending. 

 Cymes axillary, 2 to 4 cm. broad, on very slender peduncles 

 1.5 to 3 cm. long, loosely flowered, minutely subulate-bracted. 

 Pedicels about as long as the calyx, slender, the calyx-tube 

 campanulate, about as long as the limb and a third as broad, 

 dark-colored, the limb pale-green, broadly campanulate, about 

 2 mm. broad, shallowly lobed, the lobes erect, broadly ovate, 

 rounded. Exserted portion of dark-purple corolla-tube about 

 as long and broad as the calyx-tube, the limb campanulate, 5 

 mm. broad, lobed nearly to the base, the lobes broadly oval 

 with rounded summit, erect, exceeding the stamens. Style 

 much shorter than stamens, divided more than half way. Fruit 

 not seen. 



" A shrub or dwarf tree, to 6 feet in a clearing at Cacagualito 

 1500 feet, August 9." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 330, 

 in part.) 



Aegiphila stricta, var (?) 



Inflorescence minutely cinereous, the branchlets stout, 

 straight, coarsely angled, the internodes 5 or 6 cm. long. Peti- 

 oles 8 to 12 mm. long, winged, and channelled and annulate 

 at the base, the blades 5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, abruptly 

 produced into the petiole, and abruptly contracted into a short, 

 broad, acute acumination at the summit, thin, the venation 

 lightly prominent beneath, the secondaries 8 to 10 on each side, 

 strongly falcately ascending. Cymes 3 or 4 cm. broad, loosely 

 flowered, on slender peduncles 2 or 3 times as long as their 

 petioles, shortly subulate-bracted and bracteolate. Pedicels 

 very short, about as long as the calyx. Calyx-tube turbinate, 

 broadening gradually into the campanulate limb which is ab»ut 

 as broad as the length of the calyx. Corolla-tube at length 7 

 or 8 mm. long, the lobes 3 mm. long, broadly oval with rounded 

 summit. Stamens long exserted. Fruit black, 6 mm. broad 

 and not so long. 



"In thickets by the seashore near the mouth of the Buri- 

 taca River, attaining a height of 10 or 12 feet. Corolla yellow- 

 ish-white, berry red." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 

 330-) 



Sent by Mr. Smith as the same as the last, and under that 

 number, but diff'ers in more slender corolla and long exserted 

 stamens. 



Lippia subterranea. 



Gray, with closely appressed hairs, suflfructicose, the thick, 

 short woody stems rooting and creeping in the sand, and pro- 



