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Thickets along stream, at an altitude between 2600 and 3000 

 meters, Temperate zone of western slope of Cordillera Oriental, in 

 Cundinamarca. 



8. Fagelia alata Pennell, sp. nov. 



Stem about 1 meter tall, little branched herbaceous, pubescent 

 with white hairs, distally lanose and with short-stalked glands. 

 Leaves 11-17 cm. long, the blades triangular-ovate, cordate, acum- 

 inate, coarsely doubly dentate (dentate with the lobules triangular 

 and dentate), 7-10 cm. long, 6-8 cm. wide; each on a petiole 4-7 

 cm. long, this broadly winged throughout (in middle 10-18 mm. 

 wide), entire to crenate-dentate, proximally slightly expanding and 

 connate with that of opposing leaf; above green, beneath pale green, 

 on both surfaces slightly pubescent, more so on younger growth. 

 Corymb bractless, its secondary branches repeatedly branched. 

 Peduncles and pedicels pubescent with longer white glandless, and 

 with shorter gland-tipped hairs. Calyx 8-9 mm. long, the lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate, slightly serrate-dentate or some entire, 

 glandular-puberulent. Corolla: the posterior lip 2-3 mm. long, 

 5 mm. wide, arched, the two lobes united very nearly to apex (so 

 hooded with slight median aperture); anterior lip 8-9 mm. long, 

 7 mm. wide, with orifice opening much less than | length (not strongly 

 » upcurving toward hood) ; externally minutely glandular-puberulent, 

 within minutely pubescent at base on anterior side, lemon-yellow 

 margin of sac very finely purple-spotted. Filaments .5-. 7 mm. 

 long, narrowing distally. Anthers 2 mm. long, yellowish, the walls 

 thick; the sacs narrowly contiguous, opening throughout, the sep- 

 tum between thin and ultimately breaking. Style 1.5-1.8 mm. 

 long. Capsule 3-4 mm. long, urceolate-pyramidal, emarginate, 

 pubescent with short gland-tipped hairs. Seeds .2-.3 mm. long, 

 oblong, distally obtuse, ridged, black -brown. 



Type, moist bank in forest, loam soil, western slope of Cordillera 

 Oriental, east of Neiva, Huila, altitude 1800-2300 meters, collected 

 in flower and fruit August 1-8, 1917, Rusby & Pennell 579, in Herb. 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



Moist banks in forest at an altitude between 1800 and 2300 meters, 

 Subtropical zone of the western slope of Cordillera Oriental, in Huila. 



9. Fagelia nevadensis Pennell, sp. nov. 



Stem erect, nearly 1 meter tall, branched, pubescent, lanose 

 distally, with long glandless white dark-jointed hairs. Leaves 16 

 cm. long, the blades ovate, cordate, acuminate, doubly and sharply 



