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about 1 or 1^ inch broad, upon a "petiole from 5 to 9 lines in 

 length j the flowers, from 6 to 10 or more, are crowded in each 

 axil, the pedicels being 5 lines in flower and 7 lines in fruit, they 

 are pubescent and erect ; the corolla has a short tube with a 4-fid 

 expanded border; the filaments are gradually dilated to the base, 

 smooth and somewhat pilose at the point of their insertion in the 

 middle of the short tube, which is there pubescent ; the anthers 

 are ovate, cordate, acute, adnate, and terminated by a sharp point ; 

 the style is long, slender and exserted, somewhat incm-ved, with 

 a small clavate stigma ; the ovarium is ovate, and surrounded at 

 the base by an annular fleshy ring ; the berry is about the size of a 

 peppercorn, supported on its smaller persistent withered calyx ; 

 the dissepiment and bifurcate placentae are membranaceous : the 

 seeds were too immature to determine the form of the embryo*. 



9. Brachistus ohlongifolius (n» sp.); — fruticosus, ramulis teneris, 

 teretibus, glabris ; foliis oblongis, utrinque acuminatis, omnino 

 glabris, breviter petiolatis, inferioribus subcoriaceis, rugoso- 

 venosis, superioribus planiusculis, submembranaceis, geminis, 

 altero tertio vel quarto minore, rhomboideo-ovato, breviter pe- 

 tiolatis; floribus pentameris paucis, fasciculatis (2-4), pedun- 

 culis subcernuis, petiolo sequilongis ; calyce urceolato, brevis- 

 sime 5-dentato, glabro ; corolla tubulosa, breviter infundibu- 

 liformi, limbo 5-lobo expanso, laciniis acutis, staminibus vix 

 inclusis, filamentis filiformibus, medio tubi insertis, tubo hinc 

 pubescente, aliter intus glabro. — Nova Granada, v. s. in kerb, 



. HooL (Pantano del Moral, Ibague, Goudot.) 



The larger leaves are 5 inches long and 2 inches broad, on a* 

 petiole of 4 lines ; the smaller leaves measure 2^ inches long and 

 1^ inch broad, on a petiole of 3 Hues; the peduncles are from 4 

 to 6 lines long ; the calyx urceolate, 1 line long ; the tube of the 

 corolla 3 lines, its segments 2 lines longt- 



10. Brachistus dimorphus (n. sp.) ; — fruticosus, ramulis teretibus, 

 glaberrimis ; foliis elongato-lanceolatis, apice acuminatissimis, 

 basi oblique in petiolum attenuatis, adultis utrinque glabris, 

 supra ad rachin scabrido-pilosis, marginc subciHatis, junioribus 

 sparse pilosis, geminis, diffbrmibus, altero multo minori, ro- 

 tundato-ovato, sessili, basi insequali, supra glabro, subtus pal- 

 lide fulvescente; floribus pentameris binis, extra-axillaribus, 

 cernuis, petiolo brevioribus; calyce urceolato, fere integro, 

 pubescente; coroUaetubo brcnssimo, limbo 5-partito, expanso, 

 lobis acutis ; filamentis subulatis, compressis, glabris ; antheria 



* A figure of this species with generic details is given in Plate 36 of this 

 volume. 



t This species is represented in Plate 37 A. 



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