136 New Species of South American Plants 



upward, acute, Style stoutish, the stigma reaching nearly to 

 the middle of the corolla-lobes, capitate, the summit concave. 

 "Three miles east of Masinga, June 12, the trees blossoming 

 freely, the corolla pinkish. Minca, 2000 ft., July. " (Herbert H. 

 Smith, Colombia, No. 441.) 



Mr. Smith sends another specimen with ripe fruit, collected 

 at Masinga in November, saying "fruit of 441." This has 

 much smaller leaves, with different summit, and will probably 

 prove distinct. The following is its description. 



Branchlets short, stoutish, dark-brown, the leaves crowded. 

 Stipules 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, oblong, obtuse, strongly 

 3- to 5-nerved, rigid, pubescent, like the petioles, peduncles 

 and lower leaf-surfaces. Petioles 10 to 20 mm. long, the blades 

 4 to 8 cm. long and half or more as wide, rhomboidally obovate, 

 abruptly short-acuminate with rounded base, entire lightly 

 pilose or pubescent on the veins above, the secondaries 10 or 

 12 on a side, slender, strongly ascending, slightly curved, sharply 

 prominent underneath. Peduncles longer than the petioles, 

 slender, spreading, bearing one to three fruits. Fruits 8 to 

 12 mm. long, two-thirds as broad, oval to sub-globose, deep 

 purple, pubescent, the flesh abundant, drying to form a con- 

 spicuous wing-like margin, the persistent calyx-limb conspicu- 

 ous, tubular. 



"Near Madinge, 500 feet, November. Fruit dark crimson- 

 purple." 



Mapourea biacuminata. 



Glabrous. Branchlets slender, very narrowly 2-winged 

 toward the summit. Stipule 6 mm. long, ovate, obtuse, brown, 

 deciduous. Petioles about 15 mm. long, stout, narrowly mar- 

 gined above. Blades 8 to 15 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. broad, lance- 

 oblong, regularly acuminate at the base, somewhat abruptly so 

 at the acutish summit, thick, pale-green and somewhat glau- 

 cous, the margin thinly revolute, the very slender venation 

 slightly prominent beneath, the secondaries 12 to 15 on a side, 

 widely spreading, little curved, mostly with small pitted glands 

 in their axils, the remaining venation indistinct. Panicle ter- 

 minal, the peduncle mostly shorter than the flowering portion, 

 sharply quadrilateral, the branches still more so, the bracts 

 and bractlets small, ovate, acute, the flowers mostly very short- 

 pedicelled. Calj^ 2 mm. broad, very broadly campanulate, 

 divided nearly to the base, the lobes triangular-ovate, acute, 

 thick. Corolla-tube campanulate, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, the limb 

 spreading or recurved, 7 or 8 mm. broad when fully expanded, 

 the tube densely pilose within, the lobes ovate, slightly saccate 



