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Glabrous ; stems weak, coarsel\- angled, flexuous, the branch- 

 lets very slender, widely spreading: petioles .5-1 cm. long, very 

 narrowly margined, weak: blades 2-5 cm. long, 1-2' cm. 

 broad, ovate, slightly inequilateral, the base rounded but slightly 

 produced into the petiole, short-pointed and acute at the apex, dis- 

 tantly, irregularly and rather obscurely dentate, the short broad 

 teeth mostly acute, very thin and flaccid, dark-green, the venation 

 slender and inconspicuous both sides, the midrib slightl) 



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pressed above : pedicels in flower 3 mm., in fl-uit nearly i cm. 

 long, very slender : calyx in flower 4 mm. long, lobed three 

 fourths of the way, the lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate and acute, 

 in fruit 2 to 2.5 cm. long, broadly ovate, little if at all pointed': 

 corolla about 6 mm. long, light-yellow, almost equaled by the 

 stamens : material for dissection wantincr. 



Junction of Rivers Ben? and Madre de Dios, Aug., 18S6 (no. 

 823). The same collected by Ilolton at Puerto Ocana, Sept 6 

 1852. 



Species near P. Lagascac R. & P. 



Saracha diffusa Miers Illustr. So. Am. PL 2 : 17. Sorata, 

 8000 ft, Feb., 1886 (no. 831). The same as Mandon's 430. 



Bassovia inacqitilatcra Rusby, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 6' : 

 90. Mapiri, 2500 ft., May, 1886 (no. 765 



Bassovia anceps (R. & P.) {Solanum anccps R. & P. IT. Per. 



2: i^.t. i6g. f. a). Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 766). The 

 same as Bang's nos. 2513, 2526 and (?) 12 10. 



Bassovia Fendleri sp. nov. 



Branches slender, flexuous, terete, grayish-brown or yellowish- 

 brown, very- sparingly hairy upon the )'ounger portions, the 

 branchlets recurved or drooping : principal leaves sub-pctioled by 

 the very short narrowed base, 8- 18 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, very 

 inequilateral, rhomboidally oblong-lanceolate, the base sub-cuneate 

 and then abruptly short-produced, the apex abruptly contracted 

 and then attenuate, thin and membranous, bright-green : principal 

 veins 10-12 on the large side, sparsely strigose above, glabrous 

 below, except the veins, which are appressed-hirsute both sides : 

 reduced leaves of similar texture and form, or slightly broader and 

 scarcely pointed, 2-3 cm. long, slightly rcflexed : cymes 3-4- 

 flowercd, the pedicels unequal, the longer, in flower, i cm. 

 long, slender, strongly thickened upward, mostly reflexed : cah'x 

 conical-campanulate, 4-5 mm. long, the truncate border beariiiP- 



