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An Enumeration of the Plants Collected by Dr. H. H. Rusby in South 



America,! 885-1 886.-XIV. 



(Continued from page 214.) 



LOASEyE. 



LOx\SA CANARINOIDES (Eeune et C. Koch) {Illiaria canarinoidcs 

 Leune et C. Koch, Flore des Serres t. 913). This very beau- 

 tiful vine, supposed by M. Planchon to have been introduced 

 to German gardens from Central America, was found by Dr. 

 Rusby in considerable quantities on the slopes of the Andes 

 near Unduavi, Bolivia, at an altitude of 8,000 feet. His speci- 

 mens differ slightly from the type of t. 5022 of Bot Mag., in 

 having blunter petals. Unfortunately all the specimens yet 

 preserved are in flower only. 



Loasa heptamera, Wedd. Chlor. And. 218, ex descr. (Z. horrida 

 Britt. mss.). Near La Paz, 11,000 ft. {66^^. The same as 



Mandon's 619. 

 Blmnenhachia lateritia, Hook. f. Same locality (664). The 



same as Mandon's 618. 



TURNERACE/E. 



(Named by ATr. R. A. Rolfe.) 



Periqiieta chtoides {y) ^\Q.yQr \ Steud. Nomencl. 724. Falls of 



Madeira, Brazil (145 i). 

 Tiirnera odorata. Rich. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat, Baris, 1792, 107. 



Falls of Madeira (1792). 

 Tuniera Weddelliana, Urb. & Rolfe. Reis, 1,500 ft. (2094); 



Guanai, 2,000 ft. (2653). 



PASSIFLORACE^. 



(Species of Tacsonia and Passijlora, determined by Dr. IVI. T. Masters.) 



Tacsonia iiisignis, Mast, in Gard. Chron. (1873) p. 11 12, fig. 



239. Near Yungas, Bolivia, 4,000 ft. (2465). 

 Passiflora fctida, var. nigelliflora, Mast. {Passiflora nigclliflora, 



Hook.) Falls of the Madeira, Brazil (2457). 

 Passiflora tricuspis, Mast, in Flor. Brazil xiii, part i. (1872), p. 



587. Mapiri, Bolivia, 5,000 ft. (928^' and 496). 



Rami compressi aspcrati. Species adhuc imperfcctc cognita. 

 Specimina a cl. Rusby lecta quoad folia omnino cum illis a Bur- 



