156 New Species of South American Plants 



Specimen sent as part of Herbert H. Smith's No 648 from Col- 

 ombia, but distinct in every character except the size and form 

 of the heads. No. 2617, from near Masinga Vieja, 1000 feet, 

 December 20, is the same. Of this, Smith says: "Trailing 

 or scandent, to 5 or 10 feet, along borders of forest. Previously 

 confused with 648, which is a shrub and differs in the flowers." 

 Galea (Eucalea) Herbert-Smithii. 



Very short-hairy and somewhat rough throughout, the upper 

 leaf-surfaces scabrous. Stems shrubby, the branches slender, 

 light-brown, shallowly sulcate, the internodes 4 to 8 cm. long, 

 the branchlets mostly a little longer than their internodes, 

 slender, terminating in corymbs 2 to 6 cm. broad. Petioles i 

 to 2 cm. long, divaricate, the blades 5 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 4 cm. 

 broad, ovate, sub-truncate at the base, acuminate and acute, 

 coarsely serrate with very short, broad, ascending teeth and 

 very small acute sinuses, pale-green, a pair of strong erect 

 nerves originating near the base and quickly giving off a pair 

 of smaller ones, the venation slender, coarsely reticulate and 

 lightly prominent beneath. Corymbs consisting of one to 

 three slenderly peduncled umbels of 5 to 10 heads on slender 

 peduncles which are mostly slightly longer than the heads. 

 Heads 6 or 7 mm. long and half as broad, the turbinate involucre 

 nearly equaling the disk, of about 5 series of finely nerved obtuse 

 scales, the outermost green and ovate, the others scarious, pale- 

 green and lanceolate. Rays wanting. Akenes slenderly turb- 

 inate, obscurely angled, hispid, half the length of the pappus. 

 Pappus in a single series, distinct to the base, reaching to about 

 the middle of the corolla-lobes, of narrowly lance-linear atten- 

 uate scales, which are minutely serrulate and with a greenish 

 central line, and with no setae intermixed. Corolla-tube cylin- 

 dric, about i mm. long, the limb a half longer, abruptly cam- 

 panulate, lobed two-thirds of the way to its base, the lobes 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, strongly recurved. Anther slightly ex- 

 ceeding the extended corolla-lobes, the base of the cells acute. 

 Style-branches long, exserted, strongly recurved. Receptacle 

 elongated, nodose, its scales a half longer than the akenes, 

 oblong, mucronate, and more or less lacerate toward the summit. 



"A shrub 3 to 5 feet high, common in camps, 1000 to 3000 

 feet, flowering in December. Specimens from Onaca" (Herbert 

 H. Smith, Colombia, No. 648). 



Galea Holtoni. 



Frutescent, i to 2 m. high, with spreading branches; hairy 

 throughout, the hairs of the branches divaricate. Branches 

 narrowly sulcate, the internodes about i dm. long. Petioles 

 about I cm. long, divaricate or nearly so, the blades 3-6 cm. 



