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short tomentose mucronate teeth. The ovarium is obovate and 
tomentose; the style and stigma are quite glabrous, and together 
with the stamens, are about three-fourths the length of the 
corolla; the stigma is clavately bilobed. 
4. Pœcilochroma maculata (n. sp.) : fruticosa, ramulis juniori- 
bus floccoso-tomentosis, adultis glabris, cortice rimoso-verruculoso : 
foliis alternis, vel geminis, oblongis, basi cuneatis, breviter petio- 
latis, crassiusculis, margine revolutis, supra lucidis, nervis pinnatis 
impressis, tomentellis, subtus fulvo-tomentosis ; floribus axilla- 
ribus, solitariis, vel geminis, aut ad apicem ramulorum novellorum 
fasciculatim-aggregatis : pedunculis elongatis, calyceque brevi 
5-dentato glabris: corolla speciosa, imo breviter tubulosa, cito 
late campanulata, flava, maculata, utrinque pulverulento-pubes- 
cente, limbo sinuato, 5-angulato, genitalibus inclusis, glabris ; 
bacca globosa, pisiformi, calyce persistente suffulta. — In Andibus 
Peruviæ. v. s. in herb. Lindley. (Lobb. n. 152 et 388.) 
This is a very handsome species. The leaves are two inches | 
long, one inch and an eighth broad, with a petiole four lines in 
length; the peduncle, which is considerably thickened at the 
apex, is one inch long, and drooping; the corolla is large and 
handsome, being one inch and a quarter in length, and the same 
in diameter across the border; it is described as being “ yellow 
spotted.” The berry is small, about the size of a pea, and sup- 
ported on the persistent calyx, which does not increase in size. 
5. Peecilochroma Loebbiana (n. sp.) : suffruticosa, ramis juni- 
oribus cupreo-floccosis, adultis nigrescentibus, ramulis divaricatis : 
foliis ellipticis, utrinque acutis, apice sæpe obtusis, margine revo- 
lutis, utrinque glaberrimis, supra nitidis, nervis pinnatis impressis, 
subtus pallide virescentibus, rachi prominente rubello, petiolo 
brevi, glabro, tenui, caniculato; floribus speciosis, axillaribus, 
binis, rarius ternis, pedunculo apice incrassato folii longitudine, 
calyceque brevi 5-dentato glabris: corolla imo coarctata, deinde 
campanulata, sicco aurantiaca, extus pubescente, intus glabra, et 
versus basin leviter pubescente, limbo sinuato, 5-angulato: geni- 
talibus inclusis glabris.—In Andibus Peruvim. v. s. in herb. 
Lindley. (Lobb. n. 889.) 
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