ciliolate with 2 acute upper lobes 1.5-4 mm. long and 
broad, 3 rounded lower lobes 8—5 mm. long and broad, 
lower lobes often puberulent inside, at least toward 
throat. Stamen-filaments glabrous, staminode ca. 1 mm. 
long or more, anthers glabrous, pale. Ovary and style 
densely short-pilose. Capsule ca. 2.5 mm. long, dark 
brown, laterally compressed before dehiscence, pilose, 
valves divaricate, usually apiculate with persistent halves 
of style. Seeds shining brown, ca. 0.5 mm. long. 
Cotompia: Meta; Cordillera La Macarena (extremo nordeste), Ma- 
cizo Renjifo, cumbre y alrededores, alt. 1,300-1,900 m., Enero 6-20, 
1951, Jesis M. Idrobo & Richard Evans Schultes 1082 (BH, Tyrer; 
US, GH, COL, Dupticarr typrs); 10594 (BH, US, GH, COL). Ca- 
queta; Florencia, Quebrada de las Perdices, matorrales entre pefias, 
400 m. alt., Mar. 29, 1940, J. Cuatrecasas 8849 (US). Cundinamarca ; 
Paraiso (near Sumapdz), 1,400 m. alt., June 5,1952, M. Kéie 4602 (C). 
Collectors’ notes indicate that this species is essentially 
saxicolous, growing from rocks or cliffs or in humus in 
dark, damp locations. The four collections studied agree 
very wellin general aspect but differ in particulars which, 
though essentially quantitative, are sufficient to deserve 
comment. The Idrobo and Schultes collections from the 
isolated Cordillera La Macarena have the smallest flow- 
ers, with sepals 4-5 mm. long at anthesis and corolla- 
tube about 7 mm. long. The Koie collection from the 
Cordillera Oriental agrees in respect to indument, but 
the pedicels are longer, and the flowers are nearly twice 
as large with sepals 8 mm. long at anthesis (attaining a 
length of 14 mm. in fruit), corolla-tube 11 mm. long and 
correspondingly larger lobes. 
A fourth collection from a much lower altitude (400 
m.) has flowers about as in the Idrobo and Schultes ma- 
terial. A first glance at the indument of leaf pedicels and 
especially the sepals suggested that this specimen might 
represent a variant warranting infra-specific recognition. 
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