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aries 5 to 8 on each side, ascending and lightly falcate. Ped- 

 uncles mostly solitary, occasionally 2 or 3 together, 5 mm. 

 long in flower, ,2 cm. in fruit, very slender, terete, dilated at 

 the base. Calyx in flower broadly campanulate, 4 mm. long, 

 lobed more than two-thirds of the way, the tube nearly 3 mm. 

 broad, the lobes ovate, obtuse or acutish, lightly spreading. 

 Corolla campanulate, twice the length of the calyx, 5-lobed, 

 apparently wholly yellow. Stamens 5 mm. long, the filaments 

 stout, nearly as long as the lance-oblong obtuse anthers. Style 

 slightly exceeding the stamens. Fruiting calyx, as pressed, 

 sub-iotund, 3 cm. long, very abruptly and very shortly pointed, 

 strongly umbilicate and obscurely lobed at the base, thin, 

 slenderly and lightly costate and reticulate, the berry about 

 in the center, a little more than i cm. broad. 



"A shrub, 4-6 feet, occasional in region east of Santa Marta. 

 Collected near Playa Brava, November 17" (Herbert H. Smith, 

 Colombia, No. 1482.) 



Physalis margaranthoides. 



Younger portions scurfy with very short hairs. Branchlets 

 very slender and weak, angled or striate. Petioles very un- 

 equal, very slender. Blades very unequal, the larger 6 cm. 

 long and 3 cm. broad, ovate, inequilateral, with sub-cuneate base 

 and acuminate and acute summit, sparsely, coarsely and un- 

 equally dentate, the teeth mostly obtuse; thin, the venation 

 prominent beneath, the secondaries 2 or 3 on each side, coarsely 

 looped together. Pedicels very slender. Caljrx 3 mm. long 

 and broad, campanulate, 5-ribbed, lobed about half way, the 

 lobes triangular, acuminate and acute. Corolla seen only in 

 the bud, when it is twice the length of the calyx, obovoid and 

 obtuse. Mature fruit on a recurved pedicel i cm. long, the 

 mature calyx 2 cm. long and broad, abruptly short-acuminate 

 and acute, strongly reticulate-veined, the berry globose, about 

 I cm. broad. 



"Puerto Peano, Rio Magdalena, Colombia, September 6, 

 1852." Collected by I. F. Holton, without number. 



Cestrum imbricatum. 



Glabrous with the exception of th2 inflorescence, the pedi- 

 cels, etc., bearing a few very small hairs. Branches elongated, 

 stout, terete, densely leafy, the leaves imbricated, 5 to 10 cm. 

 long, 2 to 3 cm. broad, oblong, tapering into a short petiole- 

 like base, acute, thickish, with revolute margin, the venation 

 very strong and prominent underneath, slightly so above, the 

 principal' secondaries 8 to 10 on each side, strongly falcate, 

 anastomosing close to the margin, the venation strongly reti- 

 culate. Racemes or panicles sub-sessile, about half as long as 



