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PSAMMISIA Sp. 



" Lobb 89, near Pilispi, 5,000 ft., New Granada." 



This also represents a new unpublished species of Mr. Smith's, and 

 no other material is referable to it. The locality is probably in 

 southern Colombia or northern Ecuador. 



Cavendishia, indeterminable 



" Lobb 83, Columbia " on specimen. Mr. Smith states that although 

 the material is too incomplete for identification, it resembles species 

 from southern Colombia, and probably is from that region. 



" Thibaudiae " 



" Lobb 79, woods Rosario, 5,000 ft., Columbia." 



This is the type of a species in an unpublished genus of Mr. Smith's. 

 In the " List of Dried Specimens " the locality for this number is 

 given as " Woods Rosario, Pro. Cuenca Ecuador, 5,000 ft." and the 

 two other references to this place on the list are also associated with 

 the Province of Cuenca. This is direct evidence of " Columbia " 

 having been written on a sheet bearing an Ecuadorean collection. 



BORAGINACEAE 



CoRDiA curassavica ( Jacq.) R. & S. 



" Lobb 50, Columbia " written on specimen. 



This is the only Lobb specimen in material of Cordia from western 

 South America sent me by Kew for examination. It is certainly 

 C. curassavica, a Caribbean species common along the north coast 

 of South America, extending south in Colombia only a comparatively 

 short distance up the Magdalena Valley, and wholly unknown from 

 the mountains of southwestern Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. If 

 the specimen actually was collected by Lobb, he doubtless obtained 

 it at some northern Colombian port while traveling between Panama 

 and England. 



Heliotropium incanum R. & P. 



" Lobb 97, Columbia " written on sheet. 



Otherwise this species is known only from central and southern 

 Peru, where it is common. In his paper on the South American species 

 of HeUotropiuni Johnston cites " this specimen under the general 

 heading Peru. 



Contr. Gray Herb. 81:41. 192S. 



