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obtuse at the apex, entire, tliick, dark above, pale underneath : 

 flowers sohtary at the ends of the branchlcts, sub-sessile : bracts 

 nearly 5 cm. long, nearly 2 cm. broad, oval or obovate, narrowed 

 at the base, acutish or obtuse, obscurely 3-5-nerved : narrow portion 

 of the blue-purple corolla-tube about 6 cm. long, .5-1 cm. broad, the 

 dilated portion about the same length, as pressed, 4 cm. broad at the 

 summit, campanulate, the spreading or reflexcd margin nearly 3 cm. 

 broad, variously lacerate : stamens reaching the mouth of the 

 corolla, the light-yellow anthers i cm. long, 4 mm. broad : style 

 extending nearly 1.5 cm. beyond the stamens, gradually dilated at 

 the summit into the 2-lobed stigma, which is 4 mm. broad : fruit 



not seen. 



Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 1155). Scarce and apparently 



flowering infrecpiently. 



/ nanulloa Mcxicana (Schlecht.) Alicrs in Ann. and Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. Ser. II., 4: (1849) I'i'i {Laurcsia Mcxicana Schlecht, in 

 Linnaea 8 : (1833) no. 513). Mapiri, 2500 ft., May, 1886 (2598). 



Ccstniin calyciiiuni Willd. and Schlecht. in Linnaea 7 : (1832) 

 64. Guanai, 2000 ft., May, 1886 (nos. 815 and 817). 



CcstniiN Parqiii L'ller. Stirp. Nov. 73. Near Valparaiso, Chili, 

 me 188=; iwo. 812V No. 820 from La Paz, loooo ft., April, 



June, 1885 (no. 812). 



1885, and no. 819 from Sorata, 8000 ft., February, 1886, may be 



of this species, though more likely C. cuantJics Schlecht. in Lin- 



7: (1832) 60 



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Madre de Dios, Aug., 1886 (no. 



818). 



Ccstnmi coriaccinn Miers in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 5 : 



(1846) 161. Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 814). The same as 

 Holton's no. 607, Bang's no. 2465, Burchell's no. 7262 and a specie 

 men collected by Triana at Bogota. 



