78 Rusby: An Enumeration of South American Plants 



Guanai, 2000 ft., May, 1886 (no. 11 13). The same as Bang's 



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Mem. Torn Club, 6: 104. Beni 



no. 121 5. • 



Belopcrone Bang 

 River, July, 1886 (no. 1749). 



Btioperone dcmidata Nees ; DC. Prod. 11 : 423. Guanai, 

 2000 ft., May, 1886 (no. 1121), and Beni River, July, 1886 

 (no. 1 8 19). The same as Mathews' no. 1208. 



CJiaetochlamys macrosiphon Lindau, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3 V . 

 409. 1895. Mapiri, 2 500 ft., May, 1886 (no. nil). 



Justicia laeta (Nees) Lindau, Pflanzenf. 4*: 350 (Rhytiglossa 

 laeta Nees; Mart. Flor. Bras. 9: 126). Yungas, 6000 ft, 1885 

 (no. 1920). 



Justicia parviflora (Nees) Lindau, Pflanzenf. 4 3b : 350 

 s parviflora Nees; Mart. FI. Bras. 9: 151). Mapiri 



>ptosto 



May 



Justicia breviflora (Nees); (Rhytoglossa brevifli 



Prod. 11 : 352). Falls of Madeira, Brazil, Oct, 1886 (no. 11 67). 



Justicia Boliviano, Rusby, Mem. Torr. Club, 6: 104. Un- 

 duavi, 8000 ft., Oct, 1885 (no. 1170). The same as Bang's no. 

 1225. 



Justicia Rusby ana Lindau ex Rusby, Mem. Torr. Club, 4 : 

 243. Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 1171). The same as Bang's 



379- 



Justicia (Amphicropia) longiacuminata sp. nov. 



Younger portions and leaf-surfaces very sparsely coarse-pilose : 

 branches elongated, slender, strongly recurved and apparently re- 

 clining, terete : leaves subsessile by a narrow base, 2.5—4.5 cm. long, 

 .7-1 cm. broad, lanceolate, abruptly contracted into a narrow petiole- 

 like base, long-acuminate and acute at the apex, entire, thickish, 

 bright-green, the midrib lightly impressed above, prominent under- 

 neath, the strongly ascending secondaries 8 or 10 pairs, slender, the 

 venation obscure on both sides : spike (but one seen) 2 cm. long, 

 1.5 cm. broad, exclusive of the flowers, dense : bracts 7—9 mm. 

 long, 4 or 5 mm. broad, ovate, acute, bright-green, thick and 

 rigid, the reticulated stout veins conspicuous underneath : calyx 5 

 mm. long, parted to the base, the lobes narrowly linear-attenuate, 

 pilose : corolla-tube about 1 cm. long, infundibular, lightly curved, 

 the lower lip 4 mm. long, 5 mm. broad, the lobes rounded, the 

 upper 4 mm. long and broad, erect. 



Yungas, 6000 ft., 1885 (no. 241 1). 



