chon apud Garcia-Barriga in Caldasia no. 2 (1941) 55, 
t. 1, 4. 
Collections of Herrania laciniufolia are not frequent. 
1 
It is unfortunate that a precise locality for MKalbreyer 
2047 is not available. 
Cotompia: ‘‘New Granada, 4000 ft. Shrub, stem simple 10-12 ft. 
If., yellowish, woody, rough, 34 ft. 1. 4 br., fl. on the stem below, 
red brown with bunch of greenish white petals, 7-8 in., threadlike, 
brownish white, pendulous.’? May 18, 1881, Kalbreyer 2047 (Herb. 
Kew, 2 spec.). 
Herrania lemniscata (Schomb.) R. EH. Schultes in 
Caldasia no. 6 (1948) 18. 
In 1943, when I validated the Schomburgk concept 
and made the new combination Herrania lemniscata, 
European collections were unavailable for study. Re- 
cently, additional and extensive material which I have 
seen in England indicates that Herrania lemniscata is a 
very distinct species. Schomburgk’s original water 
colors, made in the field, are preserved at the British 
Museum of Natural History. Included in the collection 
is an excellent painting (tab. XLI) of this concept (as 
Lightia lemniscata) which is herein reproduced because 
it depicts with unusual accuracy the habit of the small 
tree. (Plate XXX) 
Furthermore, the material at Kew has excellent fruit- 
ing specimens, so that it is now possible to describe the 
capsule: 
Fructus longe pedunculatus (pedunculus robustus, 
glaber vel glabrescens, usque ad 4.5 cm. longus, 8 mm. 
in diametro), perfecte ovoideus, 7 cm. longus, 4 cm. in 
diametro, apice brevissime et abrupte cuspidatus, basi 
subrotundatus, omnino dense et minute stellato-pilosius- 
culus, sine pilis urticantibus ut videtur, decem-costatus 
quinque cum costis primariis, angustis subhumilibusque, 
2 vel 4 (siccitate) mm. altis, 1-2 mm. crassis, subcultri- 
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