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Colnmnea sp. Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 2153). 



Besleria montana Britton ex-Rusby, Mem. Torr. Club, 4 : 240. 

 Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (nos. 2150 and 2425). The same as 

 Spruce's no. 4564 from Tarapota, fide Britton. 



Besleria Sprucei Britton, sp. nov. 



Stems ascending, weak, very coarsely angled, hirsute with 

 spreading yellowish hairs, the internodes 5 or 6 cm. long, only 

 the upper seen : petioles 1—3 cm. long, coarse and broad : blades 

 1—2 dm. long, 6—8 cm. broad, obovoid, inaequilateral, acuminate 

 at the base, abruptly and acutely short-pointed, finely and sharply 

 serrate, coarsely strigose, very pale underneath, the midrib coarse 

 and broad, the secondaries 10 to 12 pairs, strongly incurved; 

 peduncles 1.5—2 cm. long, 5— 7- flowered : pedicels about 1 cm. 

 long, thickened upward : calyx-tube short-crateriform, the lobes 

 about 3-5 mm. long, triangular, ovate, acute: corolla 1 — 1 . 5 cm. 

 long, the tube lightly contracted at about the middle, abruptly 

 ventricose above, the lobes short, broad spreading : anthers semi- 

 circular, the connective broad, dark, concave : ovary 4 mm. long, 

 stout style 1 cm. long, both pilose, especially the former: disk 

 cupulate, 1 mm. long, the margin entire or very slightly sinuately 

 lobed. 



Mapiri, Bolivia, 2500 ft, May, 1885 ; grows in deep woods 



(no. 2149). The same as Bang's no. 2537 and 2538. 



Besleria pauciflora sp. nov. 



Coarsely pilose, the youngest portions somewhat ferruginous- 

 tomentose : stems stout, weak, coarsely quadrangular, the inter- 

 nodes about 5 cm. long : petioles 3-5 cm. long, tomentose : 

 blades 1 — 1.5 dm. long, 5-7.5 cm. broad, oval, very abruptly con- 

 tracted into the petiole, distantly short -serrate, thin, deep-green 

 and sparsely pilose above, pale and pubescent underneath, with 

 the midrib and about 8 pairs of secondaries lightly prominent : 

 peduncles 1 to few-flowered, about 5 cm. long, erect, slender : 

 calyx about 1 cm. long, the tube suh-hemispherical, the lobes 

 lance-ovate, acuminate and acute : corolla light-red, nearly 2 cm. 

 long, the tube ventricose above the middle, the lobes about 2 mm. 

 long, broad, rounded, strongly reflexed : anthers cordate, 1 mm. 

 ' on g> I -S cm - broad, with a broad, dark connective: style 1 cm. 

 long, stout, flattened, thickened upward : stigma nearly as broad 

 as the anthers, strongly 2 -lobed : ovary 5 mm. long, broadly 

 ovoid : disk very short, interrupted upon one side to form 2 small 

 lobes, the remainder inclined to be 3 -lobed. 



Mapiri, 2500 ft., May, 1886 (no. 2437). 



