116 New Species of South American Ptants 



Cyphotnandra chlorantha. 



Younger portions of stems, lower leaf -surf aces, inflorescence 

 and flowers very finely puberulent. Branches slender, terete, 

 pale-green. Leaves on the basal shoots pinnate, 2.5 dm. long, 

 the pinnae short and slenderly petiolulate, 5 to 10 cm. long, 

 lanceolate, acuminate and acute. Petioles of the regular stem- 

 leaves about I cm. long, slender, channelled above, the blades 

 6 to 12 cm. long, 2.5 to 5 cm. broad, mostly somewhat inequi- 

 lateral, lance-ovate with rounded base and acuminate and acute 

 summit, entire, very thin, the very slender venation prominent 

 on both sides, the principal secondaries about 6 on each side, 

 strongly falcate-ascending, the venation coarsely anastomosing. 

 Cymes long and slenderly peduncled, loosely several-flowered, 

 the pedicels 1.5 to 2 cm. long, striate. Calyx 5 mm. broad, 

 rotate, lobed about half way, the lobes broadly ovate, abruptly 

 acuminate and acute, sharply ribbed. Corolla puberulent on 

 both surfaces, campanulate, about 12 mm. long, lobed a little 

 more than half way, the lobes ovate, obtuse. Stamens 5 mm. 

 long, the anthers sessile, incurved, the connective very broad 

 and thick, the thecae not reaching its base and inflexed at the 

 summit, the small pores looking inward. Ovary oval. Style 

 stout and stigma large. Fruit (mature?) 2 cm. long, i cm. broad, 

 oval, obtuse. 



"Erect, branching only above, but the lower part of the 

 stem with divided leaves. Rare in damp clearings, 4,000 to 

 6,000 feet. January to April. Flowers pale greenish. Col- 

 lected at Valparaiso, 4,500 feet, January 26." 



(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1180.) 



Cyphotnandra bassovioides. 



Unarmed and glabrous, the branchlets stout, obscurely 

 angled and sulcate. Petioles reaching nearly 2 cm. long, the 

 blades 7 to 15 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, oblong-oblanceolate, 

 with inequilateral acute base and acuminate and acute summit, 

 entire, thickish, the venation sharply prominent beneath, 

 slightly so above, slender, the principal secondaries about 12 

 on each side, widely spreading, falcate, interarching at the ends, 

 the veins coarsely anastomosing. Racemes umbelliform, ses- 

 sile, several-flowered, the pedicels slender, regularly enlarging 

 to the summit, 1.5 cm. long in flower, 2.5 cm. in fruit, fleshy and 

 wrinkled in drying. Calyx broadly campanulate, 6 or 7 mm. 

 broad in flower, twice as broad in fruit, slightly lobed, the 

 sinuses acute, the lobes very broad with rounded summit. 

 Corolla campanulate, divided nearly to the base, the lobes 8 

 mm. long, ovate. Stamens 7 mm. long, the stout filaments 

 about one fourth the total length, the anthers oblong, stout, 

 slightly incurved, the connective moderately thickened, the 



