144 New Species of South Ameeican Plants 



1 82 1 is in part this species and in part a very small-flowered 

 Psychotria, probably undescribed. 



Coussarea grandifolia. 



Glabrous, the branchlets stout, much wrinkled in drying, 

 apparently somewhat fleshy, marked with large leaf-scars. 

 Stipule 2 cm. or more long, thick, forming a cylindrical-closed 

 sheath, the mouth very oblique. Petioles to 2.5 cm. long 

 (only the uppermost seen.) Blades 1.5 to 2.5 dm. long, 8 to 

 15 cm. broad, obovate or oval with acute base and with a very 

 abrupt, short and broad acumination at the summit, thin, 

 light-green, the slender venation lightly prominent on both 

 sides, the secondaries about 12 on a side, widely spreading, 

 little curved and connecting at some distance from the margin, 

 connected by a loose reticulum of the very slender tertiaries. 

 Panicle terminal, much shorter than the leaves, shortly and 

 stoutly peduncled, the branches thick, flattened, coarsely angled, 

 the bracts triangular-ovate and acute, the flowers very shortly 

 and stoutly pedicelled. Calyx-tube short, turbinate, the limb 

 2 mm. long and broad, cylindrical, the base abruptly spreading 

 and indistinctly sulcate, the summit slightly expanded, very 

 shortly and broadly 4- toothed, the teeth mostly mucronulate. 

 Corolla-tube 6 to 8 mm. long, the lower half narrowly cylin- 

 draceous, the upper narrowly infundibular, the lobes 6 mm> 

 long, lance-ovate, strongly recurved. Filaments wholly adnate 

 to the pilose base of the corolla, the anthers 5 mm. long, linear, 

 the summits slightly exserted, the basal portion of the cells 

 separate below the point of attachment, obtuse. Style short, 

 shortly 2 -cleft. 



"A tree 20 to 30 feet high, with white flowers. Moderately 

 common in mountain forest, expecially in glens near streams, 

 Valparaiso, 4,000 to 5,000 feet, April 11." (Herbert H. Smith, 

 Colombia, No. 1830.) 



Borreria Herbert-Smithii. 



Sparsely pilose with coarse short hairs. Stems slender and 

 rather elongated, sharply angled and sulcate, the internodes 

 about I dm. long. Stipules connate, 7 or 8 mm. long, truncate, 

 multi-setose, the setae rather shorter than the body. Petioles, 

 (narrow leaf-bases) 9 to 18 mm. long. Blades 5 to 10 cm. long, 

 12 to 25 mm. wide, lanceolate with abruptly contracted base 

 and long-acuminate and acute summit, entire, thin, rather pale, 

 the midrib and extremely slender secondaries prominent be- 

 neath, the latter about 7 on a side, very strongly ascending and 

 nearly straight. Bracts about as long as the flowers, narrowly 

 linear. Calyx 4.5 mm. long, campanulate, short- stipitate, the 

 tube obovoid, the limb a third as long as the tube, the lobes 4, 



