114 ' New Species of South American Plants 



and acute, the sinuses similar and extending about half way to 

 the midrib, a strong secondary extending into the tip of each. 

 Venation coarse, strong and prominent underneath, coarsely 

 anastomosing. Cyme very shortly and stoutly peduncled, 

 scorpioid, densely many-flowered, bifurcating, the branches 

 mostly more or less compound, the pedicels stout, about 8 mm. 

 long, sub-erect. Calyx-tube hemispherical or broadly campanu- 

 late, about 3 or 4 mm. long, the lobes about half as long, narrowly 

 triangular, attentuate and acute, the sinuses bcoad and rounded. 

 Corolla 1.5 cm. long, campanulate, puberulent, lobed two-thirds 

 of the way, the lobes ovate with a strong mid-vein. Stamens 

 about I cm. long, the filaments very short, the anthers narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the upper portions light-colored, Hghtly 

 incurved, the small pores directed upward and slightly inward. 

 Ovary small, ovoid with rounded summit, glabrous, the style 

 stout, slightly exceeding the stamens. 



"A small tree, 8 to 12 feet. Common in clearings near 

 stream at Las Nubes, 4,500 feet. December 8. Petals white. 

 Stem pretty thickly covered with thick thorns, sometimes nearly 

 an inch long. Also common in clearing at 6,000 feet. Sierra del 

 Libano." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1144.) 



Solanutn auctosepalutn. 



Harshly, shortly and densely yellowish stellate-hairy through- 

 out. Branches woody, very fiexuous, terete, sparsely armed 

 with short, stout, yellow prickles. Petioles up to 5 cm. long, 

 stout, sub-terete, grooved above, widely spreading or recurved. 

 Blades 10 to 15 cm. long and nearly or quite as wide, ovate with 

 cordate and mostly unequal base, with rounded lobes, and acute 

 acumination at the summit. Margin coarsely dentate or sinu- 

 ate-dentate, the teeth 4 to 6 on a side, short, broad and mostly 

 obtuse, the sinuses blunt or rounded, a secondary running mto 

 each tooth. Leaf thin, the lower side of petiole and principal 

 veins of the larger ones sparsely armed with short, straight, lateral- 

 ly compressed, yellow prickles. Cymes racemiform, small, sub- 

 sessile, the few flowers densely placed, the pedicels i to 1.5 cm. 

 long, stout. Calyx 6 mm. long, lobed nearly to the base, the 

 lobes lanceolate and mucronate. Corolla rotate, 3 cm. broad, 

 lobed two-thirds of the way, the lobes with a broad, dark mid- 

 vein. Stamens 8 mm. long, the filaments very short, the an- 

 thers narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, slightly incurved above, 

 the small pores directed nearly upward. 



"Occasional on open swampy land near mouth of Rio Buri- 

 taca, 50 miles east of Santa, September 25. " (Herbert H. Smith, 

 Colombia, No. 11 54). 



No. 1854. "A shrub 4 feet high, the only one observed, in 

 an open dry watercourse near the seashore at Playa Brava, 



