but a study of the material and the description would 
seem to indicate that the Paris material represents the 
type of the leaf. 
It may be of value to publish a few notes on Goudot’s 
dissection of the flower. The three sepals are laid flat, the 
very slightly puberulent inner surface exposed. wo are 
rather broadly ovate, about 15 mm. long and 5 mm. 
wide (all measurements taken on dried material), apically 
rounded; the third, somewhat elliptic, 18 mm. long and 
4 mm. wide, apically blunt-pointed. The five petals are 
all about equal, strongly cucullate, very densely muri- 
cate-papillose or granulose externally, papillose internally 
in six longitudinal lines, the ligules up to 90 mm. long, 
2.5 mm. wide immediately above the constriction at the 
junction with the petal. The staminodes are lanceolate- 
elliptic, 15 mm. long, 4-4.5 mm. wide, muricate-gran- 
ulose and apically so strongly trifid that the tip appears 
to be mucronate. This was noted by Goudot, when he 
described the staminodes as apically ‘‘mucronés et échan- 
crés’>; but, in this drawing, he indicated the tip as ex- 
tremely acute. The ovary is very densely yellowish to- 
mentose. 
It is unusual to find a species of Herrania which occurs 
both east and west of the Andes, as well as in the valley 
between the several Andean chains in Colombia. Yet 
that is apparently the distribution of Herrania pulcher- 
rima. Goudot said that he had found it in the deep val- 
leys of the eastern Andean chain, near Savana Grande 
and Payme where, however, it seemed to be rare and 
isolated. I have seen no Goudot specimen from this lo- 
cality; but it is very significant, I think, to note that all 
earlier and a number of later collections were made, not 
in the eastern Llanos, but within the Andean cordillera 
itself. 
Vegetatively, Herrania pulcherrima can easily be con- 
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