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few serratures not callous-tipped), slightly pubescent on the back, 

 and conspicuously ciliate with gland tipped hairs. Corolla: the 

 posterior lip about 3 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, arched, the two 

 lobes united and hooded, but not to apex (leaving a narrow slit like 

 aperture into hood), anterior hp 10-15 mm. long, 11-13 mm. wide, 

 narrowed at base, hooded almost entire length (sac strongly up- 

 curving against hood); externally glabrous or puberulent on pos- 

 terior lip, within pul^escent about base and within posterior lip. 

 Filament none. Anther with the two sacs separated on two arms 

 of the connective, each about 1.5-1.8 mm. long; posterior sac 1.2 

 mm. long, yellowish, opening throughout, fertile, concealed within 

 hood; anterior sac short, orange yellow, sterile, projecting into the 

 orifice, the club-like dark connective arm ser\ing as a lever against 

 which entering insect pushes, thus forcing the fertile sac out through 

 the slit like aperture of the hood and against back of insect. Style 

 1.1-1.3 mm. long. Capsule 8 mm. long, globose-oyramidal, obtuse, 

 pubescent with short gland-tipped hairs. Seeds .6-.7 mm. long, 

 oblong, obtuse, ridged (with high rounded ridges), brown. 



Moist soil, roadside ditches and banks, frequently cultivated and- 

 possibly introduced from Ecuador, at altitudes of 2000 to 2700 

 meters, Subtropical zone of eastern slope of Cordillera Oriental, 

 in Cundinamarca; also obviously from cultivation at Bogota and 

 at "Balsillas", east of Neiva in Huila, also from the Subtropical zone 

 of the Cordillera Occidental, in Valle. In Ecuador. 



Cundinamarca. Chipaque (moist bank, alt. 2600-2700 m.), 

 Pennell 1320; Ubague (moist soil, alt. 2000-2500 m.), Pennell 1877; 

 [Zipaquira (moist ditch on hill — alt. 2900 m.), evidently escaped 

 from garden, Pennell 2567]. 



[Huila. ''Balsillas," on Rio Balsillas (cult, in garden, alt. 2000- 

 2100 m.), Rusby & Pennell 692.] 



Cauca. Cuesta de Tocota, road from Buenaventura to Call, 

 western Cordillera; alt. 1500-1900 m., H. Pittier 698 (U). 



17. Fagelia scalaris Pennell, sp. nov. 



Stem erect or ascending, about 1 meter tail, little branched, 

 pubescent to hirsute above with many-celled dark-jointed not or 

 scarcely gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 5-8 cm. long; the blades acumi- 

 nate at apex, pinnatisect (cut nearly to midrib) with 2 or 3 pairs 

 of lanceolate-ovate, irregularly serrate-dentate segments (the odd 

 terminal segment largest), 4-6 cm long, 3-5 cm. wide; each on a 

 petiole 1-2 cm. long, very narrowly winged, hirsute, proximally 



