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60 New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
about I. 5: cm. long, atri striate, the blades 8 to 12 cm. long, 
2 to 3 cm. br de gularly lanceolate with obtuse base and 
acuminate and acute dese jens thin, deep-green above, 
ferruginous ben seg where the slender venation is promi tent, 
the secondaries about 1 I4 on each side, widely spreading an 
lightly falcate. Flowers few on my : t 
bractlets of the panicle very small. Pedicels meter angled, 
short, unequal. Sepals 6 mm. long and two-thirds as broad, 
ovate, lightly striate, the broad middle portion erruginéda p 
rather broad purple margins glabrous. Petals a half lon 
free portions of the filaments short. Styles halt pt engl a 
the ovary, distinct, slender, the stigmas irre, white-pubescent. 
Sacupana, Venezuela, April, 1896. (Rusby and Squires, 
No. 141.) ahs 
Calceolaria hirsuta. 
Densely long-pilose throughout. pr uod from 
a t, apparently woody base igh, 
slender, sparingly branched, terete, striate n Stipules" 5 tog 
m ng, lanceolate, obtuse, striate. Leaves to 4 ong 
and ide, the lower and upper smaller, obovate, con- 
tracted at the base into a very short sais mostly obtuse, 
thin, yellowish-gray-green, the venation not prominent, the 
n a side, akinti ascending, the mar 
serrate with obtuse teeth and acute sinuses. owers sered 
in a terminal but apparently lateral fascicle, but only the fruits 
present in my pepe Fruiti o I cm. long, the 
) r ual, lance-ovate, long-acuminate, the mar- 
gin bearing several [ess teeth. Vestiges of the somewhat per- 
sistent petals ei Capsule a half or two-thirds the 
oe calyx. Seed eadal, somewhat compressed, 
“Rare in sheltered places at the base of rocks, under 
bushes, ‘etc. 
Masinga, 500 feet, November Not observed elsewhere. 
Flowers whitish or cream- colored." (Herbert H. Smith, Co- 
lombia, No. 2018. 
Species near C. Poayia (St. Hil.) O. Kuntze. 
Calceolaria curvirostra. 
Finely puberulent. Stems erect, stoutish, terete, leafy. 
to 4 mm. long, ovate, acute. Petioles 3 or 4 mm 
m. long and 3 1 
open grassy hillsides, 4 miles northeast of | 
