130 New Species of South American Plants 



Calyx-tube, in flower, 2 mm. long, obovoid, the 4 lobes lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, acute, the midrib strong, unequal, the longest 4 

 or 5 mm. long. Corolla salver-form, the tube 12 mmi long, 

 very slender, about a half thicker just above the middle, pilose 

 like the calyx, the limb 9 mm. broad, the 4 lobes nearly rotund. 

 Filaments 4 mm. long, pilose, wholly adnate to the base of 

 the corolla, the anthers 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, attached 

 about the middle. Style stout, bifid, the branches exserted, 

 2.5 mm. long, flattened. 



"A shrub or small tree, to 15 feet, the flowers deep-pink in 

 December. Moderately common in thickets near a stream. 

 Las Nubes, 4,500 feet." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, 1813 

 in part.) 



Species near R. erythroneura Karst, but the flowers much 

 more slender. 



Elaeagia obovata. 



Inflorescence and veins of the lower leaf-surfaces puberu- 

 lent. Stipule-vestiges very short, connecting at the base, the 

 margin bearing short and stout black, apparently glandular 

 teeth. Petioles i to 2 cm. long, very stout, dark-brown, shal- 

 lowly channeled above. Blades (but one seen) 25 cm. long, 14 

 cm. broad, obovate with acute base and abruptly acuminate 

 summit, the acumination very short and broad. Venation 

 strongly prominent beneath, the secondaries 20 to 25 on each 

 side, widely spreading and lightly curved, and obscurely con- 

 necting at the margin, regularly connected by numerous slender 

 but prominent tertiaries. Panicle (but one seen) 17 cm. long, 

 10 cm. wide, the stout peduncle 2.5 cm. long, loosely branched 

 and rather sparsely flowered, the flowers sessile. Calyx urceo- 

 late-campanulate, 1.5 mm. long and a little broader, the lobes 

 extremely short and broad, the tube somewhat angled or ribbed. 

 Corolla about twice as long as the calyx (but one seen), divided 

 nearly to the base, hairy-tufted just below the sinuses. 



Yungas, Bolivia, 6,000 feet, 1885." (Rusby, No. 2447.) 



Originally published as " Chimarrhis sp. " 



Elaeagia mollis. 



Softly pubescent throughout, the branchlets stout. Inter- 

 petiolar stipules united when young, the united pair about 12 

 mm. long, ovate, acuminate and cuspidate, rigid, finely nerved, 

 later separating nearly to the base and at length deciduous, 

 leaving a short, interpetiolar base that subtends numerous 

 conical papillae. Petioles about 2.5 cm. long, stout, narrowly 

 grooved above, the blades 12 to 18 cm. long, 6 to 10 cm. broad, 

 oval with slightly produced and acute base, the summit not 



