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and bluntly sagittate: style 2 mm. longer than stamens, dark, 

 stout, gradually thickened into the lighter, rather small stigma : 

 only ver}' }'oung fruit seen, this globular. 



Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 786). 



Brachistus leptocaulis sp. nov. 



Leaves and younger portions minutely stellate ; branches 

 woody, elongated, slender, flexuous, whitish, angled, the branch- 

 lets very short : petioles 2-3 mm. long, margined : blades 2- ^ 

 cm. long, 1-2 cm. broad, lance-oblong or ovate-oblong to obovate^ 

 narrowed into the petiole, acute, entire, light-green, very thin and 

 flaccid : pedicels solitary at the ends of the branchlets, i cm. or 

 more long, weak: calyx-tube 4 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, hemi- 

 spherical, the 10 linear lobes 4 mm. long, elongating with age: 

 corolla nearly i cm. long, apparently yclIowish-purplc, narrowly 

 5-costate : fruit not seen. 



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Guanai, 2000 ft., May, 1886 (no. 265 



Diijialia lycioidcs Miers in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 7: (1848) 

 no. 33S. Vic. La Fez, iiooo ft., Apr., 1885 (nos. 827 and 828) 

 Sorata, 8000 ft., Feb., 1885 (no. 829). Also seen near Tacna, 

 6000 fl. A densely growing shrub 6-10 ft. high, the flowers 



dark blue. 



Poccilochroina albescens Britton ex Rusb>', Mem. Torr. Bot. 

 Club, 6: 91. Unduavi, looooft., Oct.. 1885 (no. 2564). 



Poccilochroina punctata (R. & P.) Miers in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. 7: (1848) 324. Unduavi, 8000 ft, Oct., 1S85 (no. 834). 

 No. 2474 from Vic. La Pez, 1 0000 ft. Apr., 1885, niay be the 

 same, though the leaves are much smaller. 



Salpichora glandulosa Miers, Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 4: 

 (i''^45) 325- Unduavi, 1 0000 ft., Oct, 1885 (no. 1935). 



Salpichroa dijfusa Walp. Ann. 3: 169. Vic. La Pez, loooo 

 ft., Apr. 1885 (no. 830). 



Solandra Boliviana ]?ritton, sp. nov. 



Glabrous ; stems softly and \\'cakly shrubby, procumbent in 

 decaying forest material, much wrinkled in dr\ing, pale, the branch- 

 lets a few centimeters long, very thick, closely besbt with the 

 nodose bases from which the petioles have disarticulated, these 3 

 or 4 mm. broad, slightly concave : petioles 5-8 mm. long, slender, 

 slightly channelled: blades 4-7 cm. long, 1.5-3 '^f^- broad, regu- 

 larly obovate, acute at the base, abruptly very short-pointed and 



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