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crassi, tomentosi, superne late canaliculati, inferne subteretes. Itacemi 

 termi'nales, erecti, bracteati, rufo-ferruginei, dense villosi ; bractese 

 spatulato-obovatse, concavse, summo apice obtusa?, 5 ram. loiigae, 

 4 mm. latfB, subglabrae, eiliatse ; pedicelli 5 mm. longi, bracteolas 2 

 angiistas acumlnatas margine serratas rufo-nigro-villosas gerentes. 

 Caliix extra dense villosus, tubo intus nudo, lobis subdeltoideis- 

 acuminatis 2o-3 mm. longis basi 2 mm. latis. Corolla 6 mm. longa, 

 extra dense villosa, pm-pm-eo-punicea, lobis 1 mm. longis pauliilum 

 reflexis. Stamina 10, 5 longiora 4 mm. longa, filamentis 3 mm. longis 

 tenuibiis minute-pmictulatis acmninatis complanatis, 5 breviora fila- 

 mentis 2'5 mm. longis, omnibus antheris I'o mm. longis 0'75 mm. 

 latis basi subito acmiiinatis bilocularibus dorsitixis, quoque loculo apice 

 diias in aristas erectas producto. SquamcB hvpogyna? 10, connatse, 

 deltoidese, subacutse. Ovarium 5-loculare, villis albidis obtectmn ; 

 stylus p-laber, 3 mm. longus. Semina quoque in loculo numerosa, 

 piinctuiis parvis copiose ornata, ambitu truncato-cordata, sectione 

 transversa triqueti-a. 



On open hillside beside Eiver Bengala, near Novo Friburgo, 

 E. Kio Janeiro, 4000 ft., n. 156. 



Mi/rsine nmheUata Mart. Tree of campo, Ipanema, E. Sao Paulo, 

 2500 ft., n. 150. 



Symplocos lanceolata A. DC. Open campo, Georges Oetterer, 

 E. Sao Paulo, 2500 ft., n. 108. 



Macrosiplionia lonqiflora (Desf.) Miill. Arg. On grassy campo, 

 Ipanema, E. Sao Paulo, 2500 ft., n. 129. 



Asdepias curassavica L. In rain-forest at Cantareira, near Sao 

 Paulo, in clearings, 3000 ft., n. 112. 



Hemipoqou setaceus Due. On grassy campo, Ipanema, E. Sao 

 Paulo, 2500 ft., n. 153. 



Oxypetalum cajntatum Mart. & Zucc. On open grassy hillside, 

 Hygienopolis, Sao Paulo, 2500 ft., n. 135. 



Buddleia hrasiliensis Jacq. Tree of rain-forest, Cantareira, near 

 Sao Paulo, 3000 ft., n. 147. 



Helioplujtum inclicum (L.) DC. On marsh at Lagoa de Rodrigo 

 Freitas, Kio de Janeiro, sea-level, n. 203. 



Cuscvta racemosa Mart. var. mida, Eng. Parasitic on Pabus 

 bushes, between Therezopolis and Alto da Serra, Serra dos Orgaos, 

 4000 ft., nn. 104, 241 ; on Pubus bushes in forest above Gavea Beach, 

 near Kio de Janeiro, 1000 ft., n. 1S5. 



Solaiinm siaymhriifoliiim Lam. Small shrub on rocks on hillside, 

 Morro dos Cabr'itos, Kio de Janeiro, 2000 f t , n. 184. 



Hcrpestes Monniera H. B. K. On salt marsh at Praia do Pinto, 

 Kio de Janeiro, sea-level, n. 187. . 



Calceolaria scabiosifolia Sims. On pathside, in forest below Dedo 

 de^eus, Serra dos Orgaos, 3500 ft., n. 157. New to Eastern Brazil. 

 Schwenkia fasciculata Benth. Grassy slopes below bare rock- 

 face near summit of Morro dos Cabritos, Kio de Janeiro, 2000 ft., 

 n. 121. 



Lnnlana Camara L. Liane in rain-forest at Cantareira, near 

 Sao Paulo, 3000 ft., n. 109. 



L. lilaciiia Desf. Liane on edge of rain-forest, Serra dos Orgaos, 

 near Therezopolis, 4000 ft., n. 100.^ 



