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teeth very short and broad, obtuse. Corolla-tube 5 mm. long, 



2 mm. wide, as pressed, straight, equal, pilose within, the lobes 



3 mm. long, triangular-ovate, acute, strongly recurved. Fila- 

 ments extremely short, inserted at the summit of the tube, the 

 anthers linear, nearly as long as the corolla-lobes, half exserted. 



Specimen unique, collected in Bolivia by M. Bang, without 

 number, locality or date, but probably from near Cochabamba. 



Palicourea populifolia. 



Glabrous. Branchlets terete, striate. Interpetiolar stip- 

 ules 6 mm. long, broadly ovate, abruptly acuminate and acute, 

 the axillary ones scarcely as long, linear, carinate. Petioles 

 5 to 7 cm. longj slender, strongly nerved or sulcate. Blades 

 12 to 15 cm. long, 8 to 10 cm. broad, ovate with the base broadly 

 rounded or sub-truncate and abruptly produced into the petiole, 

 and with abruptly very shortly and broadly pointed obtuse sum- 

 mit, thin, deep-green, the venation lightly prominent, the very 

 slender secondaries 15 to 17 on a side, with faint intermediate 

 ones, sub-opposite, sub-divaricate, little curved and abruptly 

 upcurved and connecting near the margin. Panicle (fruiting) 

 terminal, 15 cm. long, the stout, many-nerved peduncle nearly 

 a fourth of this length, pyramidal, the ultimate branchlets 

 filiform, very sparsely and minutely bracteolate. Flowers in 

 3's, all pedicellate, the pedicels minutely bracteolate near the 

 base, filiform, once or twice the length of the fruit. Fruit 

 depressed-globose, 3 or 4 mm. broad, somewhat flattened, 

 deeply 3-sulcate on each side, tipped by the persistent, very 

 small, shortly 5-toothed calyx-limb and the hemispherical disk. 

 Pyrene deeply grooved on the face. 



"A tree, 20 feet high, in mountain forest above LasNubes, 

 5000 feet, December 17." (Herbeit H. Smith, Colombia, No. 

 1833.) Apparently the same collected by Purdie at Santa 

 Marta and perhaps by Spruce at Tarapota. 



Palicourea abbreviata. 



Sparsely puberulent, the veins of the lower leaf-surfaces 

 pilose. Branchlets stout, obtusely quadrangular and sulcate, 

 densely leafy. Stipules forming a strong, thick sheath 4 mni. long, 

 bearing 4 linear-acuminate ligules of equal length. Petioles 4 

 to 6 mm. long, very stout. Blades 3.5 to 7 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. 

 broad, ovate with the obtuse bas? abruptly produced mto the 

 petiole and with an abruptly acuminate obtusish, mostly oblique 

 summit, very thick, the venation faintly impressed on the upper 

 surface, strongly prominent beneath, the secondaries stout, 

 about ID on a side, very strongly falcate, connected by many 

 crooked tertiaries. Thyrse terminal, about 5 cm. long, sub- 

 sessile, dense, bearing small, ovate, obtuse, hyaline or scarious 



