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petioles, which are 2-3 cm. long, stoutish, lightly channelled 

 above : blades 4-8 cm. long, 2-6 cm. broad, ovate, cordate with 

 a broad shallow sinus, short-pointed and acute, entire, thickish, 

 pale-green, the venation slender, little prominent : cymes loosely 

 panicled at the summit, long-peduncled, the branches sub-circinate, 

 somewhat secund : pedicels about 3-5 mm. long, stout, thickened 

 upward, lightly angled : calyx crateriform, loosely embracing the 

 bud, 5 mm. broad, thickish, lobed about one third of the way, the 

 lobes very broad and obtuse : corolla bud i cm. long, ovoid with 

 rounded apex : corolla bluish, divided nearly to the base, the lobes 

 linear-lanceolate, thickish, obtusish : anthers 8 mm. long, narrowly 

 lanceolate, brown, the small pores looking inward and a little lat- 

 erally : style pubescent, stout, a little longer than the stamens : the 

 stigma rather small : fruit (dark-red ?) smooth, globose, about 6 

 mm. in diameter. 



Junction of Rivers Beni and Madrc de Dios, August, 1886 (no. 



«39)- 



The plant has the habit and general appearance of a CypJio- 



j)ia)idra but not the connectives. 



Cyphoniandra Fraxiiiclla Sendt. in ?vlart. Flor. Bras, 10 \ 122. 



Guanai, 2000 ft., May, 1886 (no. 800). 



CypJioiiiandra bctaci^-i {Q'^\i}j^QX\^'^.\\\ Flora 28: (1845) 172. 

 {Sohviiiin biiacca Cav. Anal. ITist. Nat. i: (1799) 44; Ic. 6: 

 15 /. 524). Falls of Maderia, Brazil, Oct., 1886 (no. 805). 



Cyphomandra Yungasense sp. nov. 



Inflorescence and younger portions minutely pubescent 

 branches elongated, slender, strongly angled, apparently climbing 

 by the twisted petioles, whicli are 2-3 cm. long, slender, chan- 

 neled above: blades 1-1.5 dm. long, 5-7 cm. broad, ovate, lightly 

 cordate, abruptly short-acuminate and acute, entire, very thin, 

 deep green : inflorescence terminal, paniculate, the panicle open, 

 loose, the flowers pendulous : pedicels about i cm. long, stout, 

 angled, slightly 'thickened upward : calyx 5 mm. long, about 7 

 mm. broad, hemispherical -campanulatc, thickish, shallowly 5- 

 lobed, the lobes broad and rounded at the summit : corolla (violet ?) 

 1.5-2 cm. long, deeply lobed; anthers yellow, 7 mm. long, the 

 connectives little thickened, the pores very small, looking upward 

 and inward. 



Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 2475). 



Near C, Jloribiinda Miers. 



