140 New Species of South American Plants 



short, acute acumination which is mostly oblique; thin, but 

 rigid, yellowish-green, the venation very slightly prominent 

 above, sharply so beneath, the secondaries 6 to lo on each side, 

 with an irregular number of short intermediates, slender, crooked, 

 strongly falcate and obscurely connecting by a series of loops 

 near th^ margin, and connected by crooked teitiaries with the 

 interm^-diate secondaries. Panicle terminal, broadly and openly 

 branched, the peduncle nearly as long as the floriferous portion, 

 the branches obscurely quadrilateral, subtended by extremely 

 short, broad scales. Flowers mostly .in three's, subtended by a 

 pair of small bractlets, the middle flower sessile, the lateral 

 shortly and stoutly pedicelled. Calyx 1. 5 mm. long and broad, 

 the tube turbinate, the limb spreading, very shortly toothed. 

 Corolla-tube proper 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, cylindraceous, 

 sharply angled, the throat a little broader, two-thirds as long, 

 pilose like the lobes, which are 3 mm. long, lanceolate, thick, 

 spreading or recurved, the point abruptly infiexed, the midrib 

 prominent. Corolla puberulent within, long-pilose in the 

 throat. Filaments short, inserted at the summit of the tube, 

 the anthers 2.5 mm. long, linear, attached about a third of the 

 way from the base, the summits exserted. Style stout, the 

 stigmas large, flattened, oval, a little more than i mm. long, 

 Disk annular, very slightly crenate. Fruit depressed-globose, 

 5 or 6 mm. broad, obtusely lo-ribbed, tipped by the persistent 

 inflexed calyx-limb, the conspicuous circular disk half as broad 

 as the calyx-limb. Pyrenes finely puberulent, lightly 3-ribbed 

 on the back and one-grooved on the face. Seed grooved upon 

 the face. 



"A tree to 35 feet, the flowers, pedicels and berries white, 

 the latter about )4 inch in diameter. Common locally in 

 mountain forest, 3,500 to 5,000 feet, January to May. Col- 

 lected at Valparaiso, 4,500 feet, April 11. (Herbert H. Smith, 

 No. 1828.) 



Psycl.otria salicifolia. 



Inflorescence sparsely and minutely puberulent. Stipules 

 short, ovate, mostly with the summits involute, connected by 

 an interpetiolar sheath with truncate summit. Petioles about 

 4 mm. long, margined, the blades 10 to 15 cm. long, 2.5 to 4 cm. 

 broad, lance-oblong, acuminate and acute at both ends, entire, 

 thickish and rigid, brownish above, bright-green beneath, the 

 venation prominent beneath, the secondaries about 25 on each 

 side, nearly divaricate, the ends sharply falcate and obscurely 

 connecting, the finer venation obscure, slightly impressed be- 

 neath. Panicle terminal, in my specimen 5 cm. long, sessile, 

 narrow and interrupted, densely flowered, the flowers sessile. 

 Calyx about i mm. long and broad, the tube hemispherical, the 



