the light of experience gained during the study of a wide 
range of material, safely be referred to H. nitida. 
Herrania pulcherrima Goudot in Ann. Sci. Nat. 
sér. 8, 2 (1844) 282, t. 5, figs. 11-12. 
In the collection of Mutis plates, there is a most strik- 
ingly beautiful and accurate water-color of a section of a 
stem of Herrania pulcherrima in full flower. A number 
of diagnostic characters of Herrania pulcherrima are most 
clearly shown: the congested, many-flowered inflores- 
cences; the very abbreviated pedicels; and the long and 
membranaceous ligules with alternate scarlet and whitish 
bands. Of this colored plate, there are two copies in black 
and white. No foliage seems to have been drawn. 
A search in the Mutis collection of plants in Madrid 
has failed to produce aspecimen of Herrania pulcherrima. 
Herrania purpurea (Pitt.) R. 1. Schultes in Cald- 
asia 2 (1944) 3338. 
Further collections of Herrania purpurea in the Uraba 
area of Antioquia emphasize the great abundance of this 
Middle American species in the northwesternmost corner 
of the South American continent. 
CotomsiaA: Departamento de Antioquia, Municipio de Pavarando- 
cito, Villa Arteaga. *‘Small tree 8 feet tall.’’ December 1948, Richard 
Evans Schultes & Francisco Lopez 10464.—Departamento de Antioquia, 
Municipio de Pavarandocito, Pavarandocito and vicinity. October 
1950, Gabriel Gutiérrez V. 2000. 
DILLENIACEAE 
Saurauia pruinosa R. FE. Schultes sp. nov. 
Arbor frondosa, usque ad viginti quinque vel triginta 
pedes alta. Ramuli teretes, brunneo-cinerei, maxime 
densissime et grossiuscule echinato-setosi (setis ipsis 
albido-scrobiculatis) atque inter setas densissime pilis 
minutis roseo-niveis aloeformibus vestiti. Folia valde 
coriacea, siccitate fragilia, 22-31 cm. longa, 6.5-12 cm. 
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