Navia myriantha L. B. Smith ev Schultes in Bot. 
Mus. Leafl. Harvard Univ. 15 (1951) 41. 
Herewith is a drawing (PI. X XN VIII) which inadver- 
tently was not published with the original description. 
Navia reflexa L. B. Smith sp. nov. 
A Navia Garcia-Barrigae L. B. Smith, supra des- 
cripta, omnibus partibus multo majoribus, ramulis ulti- 
mis pendulis, floribus reflexis, ovario 4 infero differt. 
Terrestrial, the flowering plant over 8 m. high; leaves 
(only one known) 9 dm. long, the sheath subquadrate, 
5 em. long, barely wider than the blade, white except 
for the lustrous brown apex, entire, nearly glabrous, the 
blade linear with a long entire acuminate pungent apex, 
5 em. wide, flat, closely sulcate, laxly serrate with dark 
ascending spines 1.5 mm. long, covered above with a very 
tine white membrane of coalesced scales, glabrous be- 
neath; scape erect, over 14 mm. in diameter, glabrous 
(at least in age); scape-bracts erect, foliaceous but much 
reduced, much exceeding the internodes, but so narrow 
us to leave most of the scape exposed; inflorescence am- 
ple, lax, at least tripinnate (only the apical part known), 
glabrous (at least in age); primary bracts broadly triangu- 
lar, several times shorter than the naked flattened sterile 
bases of the branches, entire; branches spreading with 
the ultimate divisions pendent; racemes to 20 cm. long 
including the short naked sterile base, densely many- 
flowered, the rachis strongly angled ; floral bracts broadly 
ovate, acuminate, 7 mm. long, entire, subcoriaceous; 
flowers obscurely pedicellate, reflexed ; sepals free, heter- 
omorphic, unequal, elliptic, the anterior one shorter than 
the others, ecarinate, the posterior ones 6 mm. long, 
alate-carinate; ovary 4 inferior; seeds wingless. 
Cotomsia: Comisaria del Vaupés, Rio Negro below its confluence 
with Rio Casiquiare, San Felipe (El Castillo). December 12, 1947, 
Richard Evans Schultes & Francisco Lopez 9321 (Typr in U.S. Nat. 
Herb. Nos. 1989460, 1989461). 
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