An Enumeration of the Plants collected by Dr. H. H. Rusby in South 



America, 1885-1886, XXIX 



By H. H. Rusby 



(Continued from Bull. Torr. Club, 26 : 31. 22 Ja. 1900.) 



Besleria longipedunculata Britton sp. nov. 



Branchlets, inflorescence and lower leaf-surfaces sparsely short 

 pilose : petioles (only the upper leaves seen) 3-5 cm. long, stout, 

 broad, channeled above, nerved underneath : blades 1.5-3 dm. 

 l° n g» -5-I-5 dm. broad, obovate, the margin coarsely and most ir- 

 regularly sinuately lobed, as though due to injury, but the same in 

 both Mr. Bang's collections and my own, very thin, dark-green 

 above, pale underneath, where the broad coarse midrib and 

 strongly incurved secondaries are very prominent : peduncles 

 1-1.5 dm. long, weak, ascending, about 5-8-flowered : pedicels 

 1.5-3 cm - long, coarse and weak: calyx-tube 5 mm. long and 

 nearly twice as broad, hemispherical, the lobes of about the same 

 length : corolla 2 cm. long, campanulate with the upper half con- 

 tracted, glabrous, thickish, crimson, the lobes 5-8 mm. long. 



Mapiri, Bolivia, 5000 ft., Apr., 1880 (no. 2436). The same as 



Bang's no. 2539. Dr. Britton says, "Related to B. divaticata 



Poepp. (Mathews* no. 2006), but leaves and flowers twice as large." 



BIGNONIACEAE 



Arrabidaea obovala DC. Prod. 9 : 185. Guanai, 2000 ft., May, 

 I 886 (no. 1 1 53), and Mapiri, nos. 1131 and 11 32. 



Ar'rabidaea florida DC. Prod. 9: 184. Guanai, 3000 ft., May, 

 1886 (no. 1 133), and Reis, 1500 ft., June (no. 1 135). 



Arrabidaea Orbignyana DC. Prod. 9 : 184. Guanai, 2000 ft., 

 May, 1886 (no. 11 34). 



Lundia densiflora DC. Prod. 9: 181. Mapiri, 5000 ft., April, 

 1886 (no. 1 1 36). The same as Spruce's 2232. 



Bignonia gliithwsa DC. Prod. 9 : 162. Guanai, 2000 ft, May, 

 1886 (nos. 1 147 and 11 54). 



Bignonia pyramidata Rich. Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. I : 



no. i 792 ? Guanai, 2000 ft., May, i88( 

 1 he leaves are less pubescent underneath. 



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