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RusByA, gen. nov. 
Calyx tube continuous with the peduncle; campanulate, 5- 
angled; the limb erect, 5-lobed; lobes triangular, acute or 
acuminate; corolla tubular, narrowed above; stamens 10, nearly 
equalling the corolla; flowers otherwise as in TZhemistocleia 
Klotsch. 
Glabrous or minutely pubescent epiphytic shrubs, with slender, 
densely leafy branches; branchlets distinctly marked by the leaf- 
scars; leaves coriaceous, short-petioled, linear or ovate, obtuse, 
minutely apiculate, stipulate; stipules persistent, setaceous; flowers 
small, solitary, slender-peduncled; peduncles minutely bracted 
near the base. 
Two species, natives of Eastern Bolivia: 
1. R. TaxrFoL1a.—Branchlets glabrous; leaves narrowly linear, one- 
nerved; peduncles 2 or 3 bracteate above the base. 
Yungas, Bolivia, Rusby, No. 2692; M. Bang, No. 
2. R. PEaRcEt.—Branchlets pubescent; leaves ovate or ovate-lance- 
olate, pinnately nerved or indistinctly 3-nerved; peduncles I 
or 2 bracteate at the base; flowers red. 
Pintae (Pintoe), Bolivia, 10,000-11,000 ft., R. Pearce, Feb. 
1867, Herb. Kew.; 4-6 ft. long on trees, Sandillani, 8,0o00-9000 
ft., 1866, R. Pearce, Herb. Kew. Sir Joseph Hooker notes 
the presence of stipules on one of these Kew sheets. 
Botanical Notes. 
A New Station in New York State for Saxifraga aizoides, L.— 
This plant has been recorded as growing in but three or four places 
in this State. During a collecting trip, I found the plant growing 
in considerable abundance upon the dripping cliffs below the falls 
in Salmon River, Town of Orwell, Oswego Co. The nearest sta- 
tion known is the east branch of Fish Creek, Oneida Co., twenty 
miles away, where it was discovered many years ago by Knieskern 
and Vasey, and observed later by John A. Paine, Jr. (Cat. of Plants 
found in Oneida Co. and Vicinity 1865, p. 31). The west branch 
of Fish Creek and Salmon River have their sources very near to- 
gether; the former, however, flows south into Oneida Lake; the e 
