132 New Species of South American Plants 



and acute, erect-spreading. Dissection material wanting. _ Cap- 

 sule 2 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, 4-lobed, tipped by the persistent, 

 strongly recurved calyx-lobes. 



"A shrub, to 8 feet, with white flowers. Observed only in 

 the forest district, adjoining the coast, and extending to the 

 slopes of the Sierra Nevadas, 30 to 50 miles east of Santa Marta, 

 below 1,500 feet. Moderately common." (Herbert H. Smith, 

 Colombia, No. 99.) 



Posoqueria platysiphonia. 



Lower leaf-surfaces bearing scattered, short, appressed hairs, 

 otherwise glabrous. Branchlets slender, striate, compressed or 

 dilated slightly at the nodes. Stipules i cm. long, entire, ob- 

 tuse, connate to form a cylindrical sheath. Petioles (only the 

 upper seen) to 1.5 cm. long, stout, grooved above, the groove 

 extending into the midrib. Blades i to 2.5 dm. long, 5 to 12 

 cm. broad, oval to obovate with obtuse base and very abruptly 

 pointed summit, the point as broad as long and acute; entire, 

 thin, deep-green, the venation slightly prominent beneath. 

 Secondaries about 7 on a side, very slender, strongly ascending, 

 obscurely connecting at the margin, connected by few crooked 

 loosely branching tertiaries. Peduncle terminal, short, stout, 

 coarsely angled, the cyme few-flowered. Pedicels i to 2 cm. 

 ■long, stout, coarsely angled. Calyx open-campanulate, 6 mm. 

 long and broad, 5-costate and 5-nerved, the margin equally 

 5-lobed, the lobes extremely short and broad, with rounded, 

 very short-ciliate margin. Corolla-tube to 13 or 14 cm. long, 

 7 mm. broad as pressed, the upper portion slightly and gradually 

 contracted, many-sulcate, the limb 2-lipped, obliquely turned in 

 the bud, the lobes imbricate, 15 to 20 mm. long, broad and 

 rounded, densely long-pilose at the base, at length reflej^d. 

 Stamens exserted, reflexed, the filaments slender, the anthers 

 puberulent, 7 mm. long, linear-oblong, mucronate, the cells 

 acute at the base. 



"A small tree with long drooping branches, to 20 feet, the 

 flowers creamy white. In damp forest on mountain-side near 

 Valparaiso, about 4000 feet, July 5. Only one seen." (Her- 

 bert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1655.) Species very near P. 

 Metensis (Karst.) n. c.m6., but differing in calyx-teeth, in the 

 pilose corolla-lobes and the stipule-characters. 



Randia orinocensis. 



(Fruiting specimen). Glabrous except the young portions, 

 which are obscurely strigose. Stipules ovate, acuminate and 

 pungent, 3 mm. long. Petioles about 4 mm. long, channeled 

 above, narrowly margined. Blades 3.5 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 5 



