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Tubropunctate in lines and dots : stamens 5, 2^ lines long ; 

 anthers exceeding the flat tapering filaments, linear-oblong, 

 quadrangular, base cordate, apex obtuse and mucronulate, 

 biporose: stjle nearh- equaling petals ; ovules 12-16: fruit 

 red, glandular, 3 lines in diameter, • crovvned with persist- 

 •ent base of style. — Distinguished by secondary branches 

 of inflorescencetwo to three times exceeding primary ones. — 

 Mountain forests of Pansamala, Dept. Alta Verapaz, alt. 

 3,800 feet, Aug., 1886. (Ex PI. cit. 1,035.) 



Cobaea trifflora. — Leaflets 3-jugate, uniform, oblong-Iance- 

 olate, tapering from the middle to an acute mucronulate apex, 

 somevvhat narrowed to a cordate-truncate base, 2^-3 inches 

 long, marginate, petiolules 4-5 lines long : peduncles 2-3 

 inches long, terminal pedicel 6-8 inches long, the tvvo lateral 

 of later development from alternate foliaceous bracts : calyx- 

 segments almost free, patent, lanceolate-acuminate, margins 

 revolute, i inch long, like leaflets naked, yellowish-green 

 dotted with red, pale within : corolla broadly subcampanu- 

 late, i^ inches long, pubescent, pale-yellow, reddish belovv ; 

 lobes short, rounded, erect: stamens and style shortly ex- 

 serted.— Leaves as figured for C. gracilis Hemsl. in CErst. 

 L'Amer. Centr. t. xvi : flowers nearest to the Ecuador C 

 cafnpanulatus Hemsl.— Banks of Rio Cajabon, near Coban 

 alt. 4,300 feet, Dec, 1886. (Ex Pl. cit. 204.) 



Beloperone Pansamalaua^ (§ Beloperonides.)—FYni\cu\ose, 

 epiphytal, prostrate : branches ascending, dichotomous, te- 

 tragonal, pubescent in two lines : leaves membranaceous, 

 opaque, beset vvith cystoliths, glabrous, dark-green above, 

 glaucous beneath, rhomboidal to elliptical, each end acumi- 

 nate, 12-16 lines long, 6-7 broad, petioles 1-3 lines loncr.. 

 flowers 2-4, at length pedicellate in a subsessile fascicle • 

 spatulate bracts 3 lines long, linear-spatulate bracteoles a 

 third longer, both truncate at apex and glandular-hairy • 

 calyx-segments linear-setaceous, 5 lines long, barbellate : 

 corolla 18-20 lines long, scarlet ; lips nearly equalincr tube 

 and each other, hairy without, glabrate withm, the postenor 

 one bidentulate, the anterior 4 lines broad with lobes 2 lines 

 long : stamens nearly equaling lips ; lower cell remote, scarcely 

 calcarate: style shortly exsert.— Pansamala forest, alt. .5,800 

 feet, Oct., 1885, Sept., 18S6. (Ex. PI. cit. 732.) 



Thyrsacantlms genilnatiis.—Suffruticose, ferruginous-pubes- 

 cent: stem tetragonal : leaves pergameneous, nitidous ex- 



