118 New Species of South American Plants 



"Suffructicose, erect, 3 to 4 feet high, in damp clearings, 

 Sierra del Libano, 6,000 feet, January 23, flowering until May 

 or later. Corolla white, sometimes tinged with purple. " (Her- 

 bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1182.) 



Burchell's No. 3705 is similar, but the flowers are not more 

 than half as long. 



Physalis petiolaris. 



Villous with spreading hairs. Branches elongated, very 

 flexuous, sparsely leafy, slender, sharply angled above, many- 

 striate below, the internodes about 5 cm. long, the short branch- 

 lets divergent. - Petioles filiform, striate, some nearly 7 cm. 

 long, the blades 4 to 7 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. broad, inequilater- 

 ally ovate with a short abruptly acuminate and acute summit 

 and shallowly cordate base, the margins obscurely sinuate, 

 occasionally toothed, very thin, the slender venation incon- 

 spicuous, the 5 to 7 secondaries strongly ascending, nearly 

 straight or lightly falcate above. Peduncles solitary, in flower 

 about 6 mm. long, moderately elongating in fruit, slender, 

 densely villous like the calyx, which is narrowly campanulate, 

 5 mm. long, lobed more than half way, the tube 3 mm. broad, 

 the base truncate and umbilicate, the lobes triangular-lance- 

 olate, regularly acuminate and acute, appressed, the sinuses 

 acute. Corolla 7 mm. long, campanulate, villous, sulphur- 

 yellow, shallowly lobed. Stamens nearly equalling the corolla, 

 the filaments twice the length of the anthers. Fruiting calyx, 

 as pressed, 2 cm. long and somewhat broader, the short point 

 extremely abrupt, 5-ribbed, the base umbilicate and shortly 

 5-lobed, the berry about i cm. broad. 



"Herbaceous, erect or ascending, i to 2 feet. Local and 

 rather rare in damp clearings and waste places below 2000 feet. 

 Flowers pale yellow, the throat spotted with dark purple. 

 Collected near Bonda, 150 feet, November 9." (Herbert H. 

 Smith, Colombia, No. 11 71.) 



Physalis cuneata. 



Calyx, pedicels and young petioles minutely and sparsely 

 puberulent. Branchlets slender, flexuous, terete, the younger 

 portions irregularly angled. Leaves, including petioles, 7 to 

 15 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. broad, the blades ovate, acuminate and 

 acute, abruptly contracted into a basal portion which is gradu- 

 ually narrowed into a very slender narrowly margined petiole, 

 the whole being about one-third the total length of the leaf. 

 Margin varying from entire to irregularly sinuate or occasion- 

 ally with one or more short, broad teeth. Blade very thin, 

 deep-green, the slender venation inconspicuous, the second- 



