RusBY : South American Plants 149^ 



apex, very thin, very dark-green, the weak and irregular venation 

 prominent below, the secondaries 5 or 6 pairs, with short alterna- 

 ting ones : panicle compound, very loose, the rachis flexuous, the 

 branches 5-7 cm. long, very slender, horizontal or somewhat 

 drooping : flowers about 3 mm. apart, on very short stout pedi- 

 cels : calyx 1.5-2 mm. long, its alternate lobes erect: corolla 6 

 mm. long, its cylindrical tube 4.5 mm. long, .5 mm. broad, ab- 

 ruptly dilated into a hemispherical or campanulate summit nearly 

 2 mm. broad, the erect-spreading dark teeth i mm. long ; mature 

 fruit not seen. 



Falls of Madeira, Brazil, Oct., 1886 (no. 1428). 



Tourncfortia sp.; the specimen in too young a state. Junction- 



of Rivers Beni and Madre dc Dios, Aug., 1886 (no. 1440). 



Tourncfortia sp.; unfit for determination. Guanai, 2000 ft., 



May, 1886 (no. 2464). 



Hdiotropiuvi imindatum Swz. Prod. Veg. Ind. Occ. 40. Mapiri, 



2500 ft., May, 1886 (no, T435); Junction of Rivers Beni and 

 Madre de Dios (no. 1438), and Falls of Madeira, Brazil (no. 1436), 

 the same as Mandon's 385 and 386. 



Hcliotropuun Iiidiaon L. Sp. 130. Beni River, July, 1886 



(no. 1433). 



Heliotropium braciiystaciiyum (DC). {HeliopJiytum brachy- 



stachyiim DC. Prod. 9: 554}. Near La Paz, loooo ft. alt., 



1885 (no. 2539). The same as Spruce's 5778. 



Heliotropium parvifioriini L. Mant. 2 : 201. Beni River, July, 



1886 (no. 1434). 



Heliotropiuui corymbosuuL R. & P. Fl. Per. 2:2. /. 707. 



Yungas, 4000 ft. 1885 (no. 1437). 



Erctrichium Walpcrsii (A. DC.) Wedd. Chlor. And. 2 : 90 

 {Antiphytum Walpcrsii A. DC. Prod. 10: 122). Yungas, Bo- 

 livia, 4000 ft., 1885 (no. 2581). 



CONVOLVULACEAE 



Ipomocafastigiata (Roxb.) Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. I 288 ; ed. II : 

 372 {Convolvulus fastigiatus Roxb. Hort. Beng. 13 ; Fl. Ind. i : 

 468). Guanai, 2000 ft., May, 1886 (no. 1987). • 



Ipomoca floribunda Moric. PI. Nouv. Am. 46. /. j/. Reis, 1500 

 ft., June, 1886 (no. 1994). The same as Mathew's 1 330. No. 

 1995, from Guanai, 2000 ft., May, 1886, is probably of this species 

 also. 



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