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10 linear subulate teeth one half to two thirds as long as the 

 tube : corolla-lobes at length rcflcxed, f^-"] mm. long, lance- 

 linear, acute : anthers 3 mm. long, ovate, straight, the base 

 minutely caudate, one half longer than their filaments: style fili- 

 form, 5-6 mm. long : stigma oblong : fruit not seen. 



Yungas, 6000 ft., 1 88 5 (no. 770). . 



Brachistus hchcpJiyllus Miers in Am. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 

 II, 3 (1849) -66. Yungas, 4000 ft., 1885 (no. 805). The same 

 collected by Gondob in New Granada. 



Brachistus lasiophyllus (Humb. et Bonp.) {Solamim lasio- 

 phylluin Humb. et'Bonp. ex Dunal Solan. Syn. 25). Yungas, 6000 

 ft., 1885 (no 2697). The same as Bang's no. 2617. 



Brachistus hispidus sp. nov. 



Hispid throughout, except the mature fruit (corolla not seen), 

 with mostly scattered, long white hairs which are branched at the 

 summit : petioles 2-3 cm. long, rather slender, broadly channelled 

 above, blackish, dilated at the base : blades .6-1.2 cm. long, 4-6 

 cm. broad, ovate, rounded at the base, abruptly short-acuminate 

 and very acute at the apex, entire, thin, dark-green, below sparsely 

 (except densely on the prominent principal vein.s), and above very 

 sparsely hairy : flowers not seen : fruiting pedicels solitary, 3 cm. 

 long, stoutish, angled, slightly thickened at the summit : fruiting 

 calyx-tube 5 mm. long, i cm. or more broad, crateriform, the 

 border sinuatcly lO-lobed and the lobes terminating in linear at- 

 tenuate teeth nearly i cm. long : entire calyx strongly hi.spid : 

 fruit (blackish) elongated globular, about i cm. long. 



Guanai, 2000 ft.. May, 1886 (no. 2524). 



Brachistus strigosus sp. nov. 



Strigose throughout, for the most part densely, including the 



outer surface of the corolla ; branches woody, elongated, flexuous : 

 petioles proper 5 mm. long, margined, broad : blade 3-9 cm. 

 long, 2-4 cm. broad, very inacquilatcral, oblong or oval, acute at 

 the base and narrowed into the petiole, narrowly acuminate and 

 acute at apex, entire, thin, yellowish-green, the venation lightly 

 prominent, both sides. Indumentum light yellow : pedicels fascicled, 

 about I cm. long, slender, slightly thickened upward : calyx-tube 

 hemispherical in flower, 3.5 mm. broad, the narrowly linear dark 

 teeth about 1.5 mm. long: corolla (violet ?) nearly 1.5 cm. broad, 

 the 10 lobes narrowly ovate, acumiiiate : anthers yellow, nearly 4 

 mm. long, ovate, the back outwardly arched below, the base shortly 



