128 New Species of South American Plants 



Beloperone Sanmartensis 



Inflorescence brown-tomentose, the branchlets, petioles and 

 venation very finely and closely tomentellate. Stems stout, 

 obtusely quadrangular and broadly sulcate. Petioles (upper 

 only seen) 2 to 7 cm. long, stout, channeled above, the blades 

 15 to 30 cm. long, 7 to 14 cm. broad, ovate to slightly obovate, 

 rounded or subcordate at the base, shortly acuminate and acute^ 

 entire, very thin, paler underneath, the venation slender, 

 sharply prominent underneath, slightly so, with the midrib 

 lightly channeled, on the upper surface, the principal veins 

 about 13 to 15 on each side, lightly falcate and anastomosing 

 close to the margin. Panicle terminal, stoutly peduncled, 

 sometimes with a pair of small ones at its base, bracteate and 

 bracteolate with ovate, acute, sessile bracts, the branches as- 

 cending, densely flowered, the flowers sessile, 4 cm. long. Calyx 

 2-bracted, the bracts broadly ovate, nearly as long as the calj^, 

 which is 12 mm. long, and strongly lo-nerved, divided nearly 

 to the base, the larger lobes ovate, acute, the 3 smaller lance- 

 olate, acute, all of about the same length. Upper lip of corolla 

 about 13 mm. long, erect, entire, obtuse, the lower slightly 

 longer, strongly recurved, its middle lobe about 12 mm. long 

 and about half as broad, with rounded summit, the lateral a 

 little shorter and narrower. Stamens nearly equaling the 

 corolla, the lower anther-cell about 3 mm. long, exclusive of 

 the obtuse hyaline basal appendage, its summit reaching about 

 to the middle of the upper, which is a little shorter. Style 

 shorter than the stamens. Disk annular, much thickened, 2 

 mm. high, the ovary sub-conical, about 4 mm. long, glabrous. 



"A shrub, 4 to 6 feet high, common locally, in low and damp 

 parts of the dry forest region below 1,000 feet. Collected near 

 Mamatoca, 100 feet, Nov. " (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 

 96.) 



Jacobinia Lindaviana 



A glabrous shrub, the branchlets short, stout and leafy- 

 Petioles 3 mm. long, slender; blades 15-30 mm. long, 10-20 mm. 

 wide, ovate, rounded at the base, obtuse at summit, dark-green^ 

 thickish, the veins dark, strongly-ascending. Flowers few, in 

 the upper axils, subsessile, 2-bracteolate at the base of the calyx, 

 the bracts minute, subulate. Calyx 10 mm. long, the lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate, acutish. Corolla-tube 15 mm. long, 

 nearly straight, dilating very near the summit, the lobes partially 

 destroyed by insects in my specimen. The short stamens 

 equalling the corolla tube, the longer ones exserted, the lower 

 anther cell with about two-thirds of its length below the base of 

 the upper, which is short mucronate. Style not equalling the 

 longer stamens, stout, sharply declined above. 



