The sepals mostly lack the red-brown multicellular hairs 
so prominent in other collections, but some have a less 
dense but nonetheless characteristic cover of these hairs 
along the mid-nerve and toward the base. The lower sur- 
face of the leaves has a less prominent indument. I am 
constrained trom recognizing the material separately at 
this time by experience with variation in size and indu- 
ment within the limits of what I consider definable and 
“‘detendable’™’ species elsewhere in the Gesneriaceae, es- 
pecially in Achimenes. For the moment, let it suffice to 
point out in synoptic form the differences noted in the 
too few collections seen from three rather well separated 
areas, 
Pedicels and sepals with few or no red-brown multicellular hairs, 
sepals densely hispidulous, pedicels more or less sparsely pilose, 
sometimes with glandular hairs; lower surface of leaf villous on 
principal nerves, hispidulous to glabrescent elsewhere; sepals 
6.5-8 mm. long, corolla-tube 6 mm. long. Cuatrecasas SS49 
Pedicels and centre of sepals densely villous with red-brown multi- 
cellular hairs and hispidulous with pale short one- or few-celled 
rarely glandular hairs: lower surface of leaf villous on principal 
nerves, pilose on reticulate secondary nerves. 
Sepals 8 mm. long at anthesis, becoming 13-14 mm, long in fruit; 
corolla-tube ca. 11 mm, long: pedicels to 2 or 2.5 em. long. 
Kole 4602 
Sepals 5-5.5 mm. long at anthesis, becoming 7 mm. long in fruit; 
corolla-tube 7 mm. long: pedicels ca. 8 mm. long, 
Idrobo & Schultes 1059A, 1082 
