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long; leaf blades ovate, 1 to 1.8 cm. long, 5 to 9 mm. wide, acute, callous- 

 tipped, rounded at base, hispid-serrulate, above somewhat shining and along 

 costa puberulous, beneath sparsely ascending-hispid with lepidote-tubercu- 

 late-based hairs, prominulous-reticulate on both sides; flowers solitary in 

 the axils toward ends of branches, or the lowest axil rarely bearing a leafy- 

 bracted raceme; pedicels becoming decurved, 8 to 10 mm. long, densely 

 griseous-puberulous with spreading hairs and less densely rufous-hispid 

 with upcurved hairs, bracteate at extreme base; calyx 3.2 to 4 mm. long, 

 5-lobed about half its length, puberulous above, the lobes ovate, obtusish, 

 densely ciliolate; corolla "white, " ovoid-urceolate, 7 to 8 mm. long, rather 

 densely puberulous outside, within pilose from shortly above the base to the 

 base of the 5 short suborbicular lobes; stamens 10, the lance-ovate filaments 

 2 mm. long, densely pilose dorsally and finely glandular-puberulous, 

 essentially glabrous ventrally, the anther sacs (body) 0.5 mm. long, the 

 shorter neck of each cell divided into two awns 0.6 mm. long; capsule 5- 

 celled, subglobose, pubescent, entirely included in the accrescent somewhat 

 fleshy calyx, the whole 6 mm. thick. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1059982, collected near Alban, 

 Cundinamarca, Colombia, altitude 2685 meters, October 5, 1920, by Wilson 

 Popenoe (no. 1133). 



Related to Gaultheria anastomosans (L. f.) H. B. K., but distinguished 

 from that and from all related species by its externally pubescent corolla. 



Disterigma margaricoccum Blake, sp. nov. 



Shrub 1 to 1.5 m. high; older branches fuscous, hispid-pilose or glabres- 

 cent; young branches erect, brownish, densely hispid-pilose with short 

 spreading hairs, densely leafy; petioles broad, 1 mm. long, more or less 

 pubescent; leaf blades narrowly lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 6.5 to 11 

 mm. long, 1.2 to 2 mm. wide, acuminate, at base rounded or acute, entire, 

 coriaceous, somewhat boat-shaped, short-ciliate, sometimes sparsely pubes- 

 cent above toward base, whitish-green, veinless above, the costa and 2 or 3 

 pairs of lateral veins obscure or conspicuous beneath; flowers axillary, 

 solitary, forming dense leafy pseudo-racemes 1 to 2 cm. long at base or apex 

 of branches; pedicels becoming deflexed, spreading-puberulous, 1.5 to 4 mm. 

 long; bracts at base of calyx 2, suborbicular, 2.5 to 3 mm. long, rounded or 

 obtuse, ciliolate, equalling the calyx tube, several-stria te ; calyx tube glo- 

 bose-campanulate, 2.8 mm. long, obtusely 4-angled, essentially glabrous, 

 the 4 teeth deltoid, 1.4 mm. long, acutish, ciliolate and sparsely pubescent 

 dorsally toward apex; corolla urceolate, "rich rose-pink," 9 mm. long, 

 about 5 mm. thick, glabrous, fleshy, the 4 teeth deltoid, recurved, acutish, 

 1.3 mm. long; stamens 8, equal, attached to extreme base of corolla, the 

 filaments narrowly linear-subulate, 5.2 mm. long, densely spreading-hispid- 

 pilose, the anthers muriculate especially below, 3.5 mm. long (body 1.5 mm., 

 tubules 2 mm.); ovary 4-celled; "berry translucent, white, 6 to 12 mm. 

 thick; seeds few, minute." 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1067082, collected in paramo 

 on slopes of Mt. Tunguragua, Ecuador, altitude 3050-3965 meters, March 

 8, 1921, by Wilson Popenoe (no. 1287). 



