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An Enumeration of the Plants Collected by Dr. H. H. Rusby in South 



America, 1885-1886.-XIII. 



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Rami graciles, fuscescentes. Petiolus T)-6 cm. longus. Folia 

 tenuiter membranacea, in eadom jugo satis insequalia, majora 

 13-18 cm. longa, 6-10 cm. lata. Cymae r-2 cm. longge. Calycis 

 tubus 4 mm. longus; dentes exteriores erecti, 4-5 mm. longi. 

 Baccee subglobosae, circiter i cm. crassse. Aff. CI. Jiirta. Ma- 

 piri, 2,500 ft. (2238). 



Clidemia cordata, Cogn. sp. -nov. (Sect. Sagrcea, Cogn.) ; 

 fere glaberrima ; ramis teretibus, superne leviter compressis, 

 junioribus vix furfuraceis ; foliis longe petiolatis, late ovato- 

 cordatis, acutiuscule beviterque acuminatis, minute crenulato- 

 denticulatis, 7-9-nerviis, subtus ad nervos leviter furfuraceis ; 

 cymis brevibus, diffusis, paucifloris ; floribus 4-meris, brevis- 

 sime pedicellatis, basi minutissime bibracteolatis ; calycis tubo 

 ovoideo, lobis brevissimis, dentibus exterioribus oblongo-lin- 

 earibus, obtusiusculis, tubo paulo brevioribus. 



Rami satis graciles, elongati, fuscescentes. Petiolus 6- 10 cm. 

 longus. Folia tenuiter membranacea, 1 1- 16 cm. longa, 9-13 cm. 

 lata. Cymae 3-5 cm. longae ; pedicelli 1-3 mm. longi, Calycis 

 tubus 2 mm. longus; dentes reflexi, 1^-2 mm. longi. Mapiri, 

 2-, 500 ft. (23 II). 



Clidemia Rusbyi, Britt. spec. nova. Sect. Sagrcea. Frutex 

 erectus, ramosus ; flores in axiilis foliorum sessiles congesti ; foliis 

 glabris, 5-nerviis, oblongis, acuminatis, basi acutis, 7-9 cm. 

 longis, 3-4 cm. latis ; petiolis 1-2 cm. longis ; rami tereti ; 

 calycis tubus furfuraceis, dentes tubo multo breviores. Mapiri, 

 2,500 ft. (2320). Nearest Clidemia septttplinervia, Cogn. ex 

 descriptio. 



Clidemia PILOSISSIMA, Britt. spec. nova. Frutex adscendens, 

 ramosus ; flores in paniculas axillares digesti ; folia 7-nervia, 

 cordata, acuminata vel acuta, 10-15 cm. longa, 5-8 cm. lata, 

 utrinque stellato-pubescentia, membranacea, longe petiolata ; 

 petiolis marginis venisve longe rufo-pilosis ; pedicellis lon- 

 giusculis, crassis, rufo pilosis, stellato-pubescentibus ; fructus 

 globosus, 6 mm. longus. Mapiri, 5,000 ft. (2234). Related 

 to vS". itmbrosa. 



Clidemia obliqua, Griseb. Mapiri 2,500 ft. (2317). 

 Calophysa pilosa, (Don.), Tri. 1. c. Mapiri, 5,000 ft. (2315). 



