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49. M. Beteichiana K. Schuiu., in Mart. Flor. Bras. Ti. vi, 

 181 (1889). 



Brazil. Eio de Janeiro : Glaziou 17060! Organ Mts., 3000 ft. 

 A climber in a virgin wood, Gardner 456 ! 



Notable for the ample lax paniculate inflorescence, with straight, 

 delicate, long branches, bringing the flowers to positions more or less 

 free of the leaves (see M. pariiculata, supra •^. 30). The cupvdar 

 ovary bears four short subsetaceous crt/y^-lobes, the flower in general 

 recalling that of the allied M. pisifera {supra p. 27). 



50. M. TEJ^^uis, nom. nov. Lygistum tenue Rusby, in Mem.' 

 Torr. Bot. Club, vi. 45 (1896). Manet tia Rushy ana Sprague, MS. 

 in herb. Kew. 



Bolivia. Bang ! Sorata, Bang 1725 ! Hbb. Mus. Brit. & Kew. 

 The British Museum specimen is in fruit, and moi'eover displays the 

 inflorescence to advantage. This is very-many-flowered, consisting 

 of pseudo-whorls of fruits upon a moi'e or less elongated rachis. The 

 capsule is globose, smaller than an average pea, and crowned by four 

 long subulate-setaceous calyx-\o\i%%, by which the species is readily 

 recognizable. 



51. M. MEEiDENSis K. Schum., in Mart, Flor. Bras. vi. vi. 178 

 (1889). 



Venezuela. Caracas : Linden 331 ! Merida : road to S. Jacinto ; 

 flowers (November) pale-rose. Moritz 975 ! Colombia. Ocana, 

 4000 ft., flowers (August) white or lilac, Schlim 86 ! Ocana to 

 Pamplona, open spaces at 5500 feet; a twining shrub 8 to 10 feet 

 high, with stiff leaves, light-violet flowers, turning white. Kalbreyer 

 694! 



The first two of the foregoing examples are Schumann's types. 

 He describes the colour of the flowers as " pallide rosacea vel auran- 

 tiaca." The plants collected by Schlim and by Kalbreyer (supra) 

 would appear to be colour-forms — for they agree with the type-plants 

 in every other detail. 



52. M. Bangii Rusby, in Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, iii. iii. 43 

 (1893). 



Bolivia. Yungas, Bang 537 ! 



Distinct in the densely pubescent ovary Kndihe broad caIyx-\ohes. 

 A jjlant collected Vjy Bang— no. 1268 ! — from Cochabamba is almost 

 certainly of this species, or very closely allied to it. Rusliy, loc. cit. 

 vi. 45 (1896), suggests that this plant is near M. umhellata — but his 

 reasons for this suggestion are not clear. 



53. M. CONGESTA K. Schum., in Mart. Flor. Bras. vi. vi. 177 

 (1889), Guagnehina congesta Veil. Flor, Flum. 45, t. 120 (1825). 

 G. axillaris Veil. loc. cit. t, 119. M. albiflora Schott, ex DC. 

 Prodr. iv. 364 (1830), M. rosea Pohl, ex DC. loc. cit. M. multi' 



flora Cham. & Schl., in Linna?a, ix. 243 (1834) ; Bentham (Plantae 

 Regnellianaj) in Linnaea, xxiii. 445 (1850). 



Brazil. Schott 852 ! Rio de Janeiro : Glazioti 10908 ! Minas 

 Geraes : Caldas, Regnell, i. 365 ! Widgren ! 

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