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body ovate, narrowed above to an elongated lanceolate or linear tip: 

 corolla white, narrowly campanulate, 6 cm. long, strigose-pubescent in 

 broad bands without : stamens hardly equalling the corolla, the filaments 

 somewhat dilated below and pubescent with loose spreading hairs : ovary 

 glabrous ; the style slender, equalling the corolla ; stigma 3-lobed : cap- 

 sule depressed-ovoid, 1^ cm. high, 3-celled, 6-seeded ; seed ovate, 6 or 

 7 mm. long, covered with short ferruginous pubescence. — A very showy 

 plant, growing in low places among the mountains, January, 1895 

 (no. 483). 



Ipomoea Palmerl, Watson, var. platyphylla. Leaves larger than 

 in the type, the largest leaflets ovate-lanceolate, 1 dm. long, 3 cm. wide • 

 peduncles bearing 1 to 3 dull-white nocturnal flowers : seeds oblong or 

 oblong-ovate, 10 to 13 mm. long, more densely black-pubescent than in 

 the species. — In high valleys among the mountains, January, 1895 

 (no. 415). 



Ipomcea filipes, Benth. ex Meissn. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vii. 274. A 

 dainty little vine with minute yellow flowers. Among underbrush on 

 hi^h hills, and along arroyos, November, 1894 (no. 109). 



Convolvulus secundiflorus. A delicate vine ; stems twining, 

 covered with scattered pilose hairs : leaves elongated, ovate-lanceolate, 

 long-acuminate, deeply cordate, glabrous or granular-pubescent, with thin 

 whitish and pilose margins, 2 to 4 cm. long, on pilose petioles 5 to 13 mm. 

 in length : the 2-3-flowered racemes axillary, secund : the glandular 

 peduncles 1^ to 3^ cm. long : bracts minute, subulate : pedicels glandular, 

 4 to 9 mm. long : calyx glandular and pilose without, 3 mm. long in 

 flower, becoming elongated to 4 or 5 mm. in fruit ; sepals elongate-lanceo- 

 late with subulate muriculate tips : corolla blue, glabrous, 9 mm. high, 

 with the 5 angles acuminate : stamens unequal, the three longest 4^ mm. 

 high, and equalling the style : stigma linear-oblong : seed pale brown, 

 muriculate, barely 2 mm. long. — Among grass in the town, October, 

 1894 (no. 32). 



Cordia (Dasycephalae) perlonga. A shrub with very hard 

 fine-grained wood, the dark brown bark dotted with orbicular or oblong 

 white lenticels : young branches appressed-hispidulous and villous : leaves 

 short-petioled, lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely and unequally serrate above 

 the cuneate entire bases, 6 to 9 cm. long, l^ to 2^ cm. broad; above dark 

 green, appressed tuberculate-hispid ; beneath white-villous, appressed- 

 hispid on the veins : peduncles subterminal, becoming 1 or 2 dm. long, 

 villous and sparingly hispidulous : heads at first globular, becoming short- 

 oblong, in fruit 2 or 3 cm. long: calyx narrowly campanulate, white- 



