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Seeds .5-.6 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, ridged (with rounded ridges) 

 dark-brown. 



Type, moist rocky canon, Rio San Francisco, above Bogota, 

 Cundinamarca, altitude 2700-2800 meters, collected in flower and 

 fruit September 13, 1917, F. W. Pennell 1942; in Herb. New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Moist or wet soil, springheads, swales and cliffs, partially shaded 

 or open, at altitudes of 2600 to 3200 meters, occasionally descending 

 to 1500 meters, Temperate zone, ascending to Paramo, where 

 dwarfed, and to Subtropical zone, where more rank; on both slopes 

 of the Cordillera Oriental, in Cundinamarca. 



Cundinamarca. Zipacjuira (springhead in meadow, alt. 2650 m.), 

 Pennell 2534; Mt. Chuscal, west of Zipaquira, (swale on paramo, 

 alt. 3100-3200 m.), [only 1-2 dm. tall; leaves in some plants more 

 pubescent], Pennell 2602; Bogota (moist rocky canon on Rio San 

 Francisco above, alt. 2700-2800 m.), Pennell 1942, (moist bank, 

 base of mount, alt. 2700-2800 m.), Pennell 2293; Sibate (wet road- 

 bank, alt. 2600-2800 m.), Pennell 2386; Ubague (moist loam in 

 shrub-zone abo\e, ait. 2700-3000 m.), Pennell 1898; Monte Redondo 

 to Quetame (wet bank, alt. 1400-1500 m.) [plant especially rank], 

 Pennell 1855. 



15. Fagelia crenatiloba Pennell, sp. nov. 



Stem ascending, 3-6 dm. long, little branched, glabrous or nearly 

 so, above pubescent with white several-celled glandless hairs. Leaves 

 5-7 cm. long, the blades obtuse or acutish at apex, pinnately lobed 

 with 2-3 pairs of segments, the incisions rarely extending over 

 ^-f the distance to the midrib, the lobules and main portion of 

 blade crenately dentate, 3.5-5 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide; each on a 

 petiole 1.5-2 cm. long, slightly margined, glabrous or nearly so, 

 proximally somewhat expanding and connate with that of opposing 

 leaf; above green and with scattered pubescence, beneath pale-green 

 and the midrib and principal veins pubescent. Corymb leafy- 

 bracted at base (the two primary flowers developed) , its secondary 

 branches longer, once or twice dividing and bracted throughout 

 with reduced leaves. Peduncles and pedicels finely pubescent with 

 several-celled glandless hairs. Calyx 5-6 mm. long, the lobes ovate, 

 obtuse or acutish, slightly serrate, slightly pubescent, especially 

 proximally. Corolla: the posterior lip 1-2 mm. long, 2-2.5 mm. 

 wide, arched, the two lobes united and slightly hooded, free toward 

 apex (leaving a narrow or triangular slit-like aperture into hood); 



