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a small point; those alternating similarly formed, but much 
smaller and apparently imperfect, the anthers scarcely appendaged. 
Carpels 3, distinct, on a short pyramidal gynobase; ovary pilose, 
the apex slightly 3-dentate; style ventral, linear, truncate or the 
stigma slightly capitellate. Nucule 2 or even only 1, irregu- 
larly triangular-ovate, irregularly 3 cristate at the upper portion 
and corrugated. Seed (immature) ventrally affixed, ovoid, pointed. 
Perennial, fruticulose, sub-prostrate, hirsute, with opposite gland- 
less leaves, and small, foliaceous stipules, similar to the leaves. 
Flowers solitary at the ends of the branches, peduncled. 
Dedicated to my distinguished friend, Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton. 
\z. PILOSA. Suffruticulose, 5-10 cm. high, pilose throughout ; root 
~ vertical, stout; branches ascending; stipules 2-3 mm. long, 
1.5-2 mm. broad, ovate, very acute, foliaceous; petioles 
scarcely any; leaves .75—-1.5 cm. long, .5—1 cm. broad, ovate, 
acute, the base rounded or subcordate, strongly veiny under- 
neath ; flowers about 5 mm. broad, the sepals 4 mm. long, 
oblong-ovate, the petals somewhat longer; fruit not mature. 
Collected near Cochabamba by Mr. Miguel Bang (No. 935). 
RUBIACEZ. 
Its numerous ovules, capsular fruit, solitary flowers, winged 
seeds, regular corolla, and embryo in albumen, fix my second 
genus in the Cinchonez. There being no proper bud I cannot be 
sure that the corolla is valvate, though it is apparently so. But 
the plant apparently has no affinity with any of the genera of the 
second section, with imbricate or convolute corolla, notwithstand- 
ing a certain similarity in habit with two of them. It therefore 
belongs in the Eucinchonee, in which, as shown by its loculicidal 
capsule and placente adnate to the middle of the septum, it is 
allied to a group of 8 genera, from each of which it is quite dis- 
tinct in habit and structure. It is most nearly related to Bow- 
vardia, and I place it between this and the little known genus 
Heterophyllea. 
LECANOSPERMA. 
Calyx tube ovoid-campanulate, tuberculate, the limb 5-parted, - 
the segments foliaceous and somewhat coriaceous, narrow. Co- 
rolla thick and tough, the tube elongated, very slender, the throat 
slightly dilated and the mouth again slightly contracted, villous 
within at the anther ring, the limb 5-lobed, the lobes ample, hori- 
zontally spreading or recurved. Stamens (dimorphous?) 5, Sle- 
