10 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. Sy 



LOASACEAE 



Cajophora cymbifera Urb. & Gilg. 



Urb. & Gilg, Monographia Loasacearum 281, 1900. " Habitat in 

 Columbia : Lobb," this collection being the type and only one of the 

 species known. 



Of the 57 species of Cajophora treated by Urban and Gilg, this is 

 the only one recorded from Colombia, and only one other, C. aequa- 

 toriana, is known to occur north of the Peru-Ecuador boundary. The 

 Lobb plant is probably from central Peru. Under C. aequatoriana the 

 authors observe that a depauperate specimen in the Kew herbarium, 

 said to have been collected by Lobb " in Columbia," perhaps is refer- 

 able to that species. Cajophora aequatoriana ranges from Quito, 

 Ecuador, to northern Peru, and the Lobb plant in question may well 

 have come from southern Ecuador. 



MELASTOMACEAE 



Heterotrichum macrodon Planch. 



In Hortus Veitchii (page 264) and Curtis's Botanical Magazine this 

 is said to have been raised in England from seed sent by William Lobb 

 from New Granada. The species is known otherwise only from north- 

 ern Venezuela. Pending examination of the Lobb specimen, it is 

 impossible to suggest an explanation for this apparently unusual 

 distribution. 



ONAGRACEAE 



Fuchsia macrantha Hook. 



In proposing ^" this species Hooker says, " It .... is an unde- 

 scribed species, first, however, found by Mr. Mathews climbing on 

 trees in lofty mountains at Andimarca, Peru, .... and next by 

 Mr. V^eitch's collector. Mr. William Lobb, detected in woods near 

 Chasula, Columbia, at an elevation of 5,000 feet above the sea." This 

 is also one of the Lobb Colombian plants listed in the Hortus Veitchii 

 (page 264). 



All the material of this species in the National Herbarium is from 

 Peru, and I have been unable to find any other record for Colombia. 

 " Chasula " does not appear in Colombian gazetteers, but there is a 

 town Chasuta, not far from Andamarca, in the mountains of north- 

 central Peru, and another town Chagula in central Peru, and it is not 

 unreasonable to suppose that this plant may have come from one of 

 these places. 



Bot. Mag. Curtis 72: pi. 423^. 1846. 



