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base and abruptly short-acuminate and acute summit, thick- 
ish, serrate-dentate, with sinuate sinuses and very small obtuse 
long, some twice that length. Bracts of the flowers 2, cons 
spicuous, ovate, acuminate, erect-spreading. Pistil sub-sessile, 
ovoid, acuminate, coarsely few-setose, the style stout, angled, 
purple, the stigmas large, short-pilose, light-brown. 
“Polo-Polo, near. Coroico, Bolivia, 1,100 M. altitude, No- 
vember, 1912." (Otto Buchtien, No. 3757.) 
Roupala discolor. | 
axil, the blades 6 to 12 cm. long, 4 to 8 cm. broad, ovate, the j 
base rounded or truncate, some very slightly produced into - 
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appendage very slight. Ligules of the disk 4, white, thin, about f 
a third the length of the ovary, broader than long, narrowed at _ 
the base. Ovary nearly half the length of the pedicel, pilose. - 
Style contracted in the middle third. j 
ay forest tree, valley near Jiracasaca, January 13, the flow- © 
ers white, fragrant.” (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 901.) 
Struthanthus divariacatus. 
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