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CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



lanceolate, cordate, with a broad, rounded trinus, long-acuminate, sparsely hirsute on 

 the upper face, stiff-tomentose and papillose underneath. 



Inflorescences axillary, few (1 or 2?) -flowered. Peduncles pubescent, as long as or 

 longer than the petioles; pedicels 1 to 1.5 cm. long, provided at the base with hairy 

 linear bracts 1 to 2 mm. long. Mowers greenish or purplish yellow. Sepals linear, 

 2 to 2.5 mm. long, acute, hairy. Corolla hairy outside, glabrous inside, with linear 

 lobes about 1.5 cm. long. Folioles of the corona flabellate, about 3 mm. long, with a 

 broad base, sinuate at the rounded tip and provided inside with an appendage of 

 about the same length as the stamens, broadly rounded at the base and attenuate at 

 the tip into a narrow point. Stamens 2 to 2.5 mm. long and rather broad, with the 

 terminal membrane distinctly bilobate. Retinaculum about 0.92 mm. long; cau- 

 diculae with 2 prominent lyrate hornlets; pollinia about 0.75 mm. long. Stigmatic 

 head smooth, rather thick, dividing into two branches, slightly incurved and about 

 3.5 mm. long. 



Peduncles and pedicels of the follicles elongated at maturity (peduncle 3 cm., 

 pedicel 2 cm.). 



Follicles fusiform, 8 to 8.5 cm. long, smooth outside. Seeds 8.9 mm. long, fixed 

 along longitudinal sinuate wings of a central placenta, flat, cuneiform, strigose-ver- 

 ruculose on both faces, irregularly dented at the broader end and with the usual hair 

 tuft at the other end. 



Colombia: Around the Indian village of Huila in the Rio Paez Valley, Tierra 

 Adentro, Cauca, altitude 1,800 meters, Fitticr 1231, flowers and fruit, January 31, 

 1906 (U. S. National Herbarium no. 531476, type). 



SOLANACEAE. 



TWO NEW SPECIES OF CYPHOMANDRA FROM COLOMBIA. 



Cyphomandra dendroidea Pittier, sp. nov. Figure 22. 



Small tree, 3 to 4 meters high, with divaricate limbs, entirely glabrous except the 

 younger leaves, which are slightly pubescent, and the woolly tips of the corolla. 



Fig. 22.— Flower bud and flower parts of Cyphomandra dendroidea. a, Flower before anthesis; b, side 

 view of stamen; t>i, back or outside view and 6 2 front or inside view of stamen; c, pistil, a-c, Scales 

 slightly under ti. 



LeaveB all simple. Petioles 1.5 to 3.5 cm. long. Leaf blades 3 to 13 cm. long, 6 to 

 11cm. broad, asymmetric, cordate or subcordate at base, broadly ovate-acuminate, 

 dark green and almost glossy above, paler or brownish below. 



Racemes axillary, dichotomous. Peduncles 6 to 8 cm. long; rachis 10 to 12 cm. 

 long, with the scars of the pedicels scarcely salient. Pedicels 2 to 3 cm. long. Calyx 

 6 mm. deep, coriaceous, irregularly 5-lobed; the sinuses about 2 mm. deep, the lobes 

 ending in an obtuse, ciliate apex. Corolla 22 to 23 mm. long, deeply cleft (tube about 

 2 mm. long), greenish; lobes 20 to 21 mm. long, 2.5 to 3 mm. broad at base, long-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, woolly at tips. Stamens erect; filaments 1.8 to 2.2 mm. long; anthers 



