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point, the flower again sharply inflexed. Calyx 3 mm. long 
and nearly half the length of the corolla, green, or purplish, 
thick, the sepals ovate. Longer stamens equaling the styles 
about 3 mm. long, the others a little shorter, the filaments 
thick, nearly distinct, the anthers very small. Ovary oval, 1.5 
small. Capsule 5 mm. long, lance-ovoid. Seeds less than I 
mm. long, nearly as broad, oval, acute, strongly flattened, 
narrowly margined. 
" Unduavi, Bolivia, 3,300 meters altitude, November 1910.” 
(Otto Buchtien, No. 2879.) 
Ionoxalis pazensis. 
Leaves minutely puberulent and ciliate. Bulb sub-globular 
or oval, some I cm. or more broad, clothed with the fibrous 
remains of the leaf-bases. Petioles to 2 dm. long, filiform, 
3 2 
eaflets 3, 
IO to 20 mm. broad, almost equilaterally triangulate, 
the lobe 
bracts about 2 or 3 mm. ong. 
sepals lanceolate, obtuse, green below, scarious above with 5 
strong gren nerves, the tubercles very small, narrow. Corolla 
(violet ?) 2 cm. long. Longer stamens considerably longer 
than the calyx, the anthers broad. 
Dissection material wanting. . 
"Among shrubs on ridges near La Paz, Bolivia, 3,800 
meters altitude, January r3, 1907." (Otto Buchtien, No. 615.) 
Ionoxalis buchtienii. 
Leaves almost imperceptibly puberulent. Bulbs firm, some 
nearly 2 cm. broad, clothed with ov te, acuminate and very 
acute, ciliate scales. Petioles to 7 
striate or sub-costate. Leaflets 3, sessile, 8 to 12 mm. ong 
to I5 mm. broad, ovate or su -reniform with short-cuneate 
base and deeply and broadly obcordate summit, the sinus acute, 
the lobes oval with rounded ends, thick, deep-green. Peduncles 
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