112 New Species of South American Plants 



ascending, bluntly quadrangular, the internodes 5 to 7 cm. 

 long. Petioles very unequal, to 6 cm. long, very slender, 

 narrowly grooved above. Blades 5 to 12 cm. long, 3 to 8 cm. 

 broad, ovate, some slightly rhomboidal with the base varying 

 from rounded to very broadly cuneate and with short- acuminate 

 summit, very thin, deep-green, the margin serrate with appressed 

 teeth, the slender venation slightly prominent on both surfaces, 

 the secondaries 4 or 5 on a side, strongly ascending, nearly 

 straight, forking at some distance from the margin, connected 

 by crooked tertiaries. Peduncle mostly stout, 5 to 8 cm. long, 

 the rachis mostly much longer, falcately curved, usually secund 

 and densely flowered, the fascicles sessile, about 6-flowered, the 

 pedicels slender, less than half the length of the calyx, which in 

 flower is 8 mm. long, strongly lo-ribbed, lobed a third of the 

 way, the tube 2 mm. broad, oblong, the upper lip entire, the 

 -lower two-lobed half its length, the divisions triangular-lance- 

 olate, acuminate and acute. Corolla 15 mm. long, pilose with- 

 out, glabrous within, the narrowly infundibular tube 6 mm. 

 long, the throat 3 mm., the upper lip erect, concave, entire, 

 the lower 3-lobed, the middle lobe oval with narrow base, 

 about twice as large as the ovate lateral ones. Stamens attached 

 in the throat, the filament 2 mm. long, the lower branch of the 

 connective 5 mm. long, the upper 2 mm. long, dilated, slightly 

 longer than the anther-cell, which is slightly exserted. Style 

 exserted, the summit sharply recurved. 



"A shrub 3 to 6 feet high, with scarlet flowers. Local and 

 rather rare in dry forest region below 1000 feet, generally in 

 open ravines. Collected five miles north of Bonda, about 100 

 feet, October 22. (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 567.) 



No. 379, "a shrub 5 to 8 feet high, with scarlet flowers, 

 occasional in thickets on open hillsides, 1500 to 3000 feet, 

 collected at Onaco, 2500 feet, December 20" is a variety, of the 

 same. 



Solanum tetrapetalum. 



Petioles, midiibs, etc., of young leaves minutely puberulent. 

 Herbaceous, unarmed, the stems and branches elongated and 

 very slender, trailing, coarsely angled and sulcate. Leaves 3 

 to 6 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, sessile, pinnate with 7 to 9 

 pinnae, the lowest pair of pinnae stipuloid, the lower ones 

 smaller, the terminal much larger, all oblong-ovate and short 

 petiolulate, sub-opposite, rounded at the base, the terminal 

 cuneate, obtuse, thin, obscurely crenulate. Cyme sub-sessile, 

 2-flowered, the pedicel slender, i cm. long, or 1.5 cm. in fruit. 

 Calyx 3 mm. long, lobed two-thirds of the way, the 4 lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate and acute. Corolla i cm. long, lobed to 

 the base, the 4 lobes oblanceolate, obtuse. Stamens four, 6 



