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the u inci i 
SAT E ee Racemes in the upper axils, about 
EY the hng, shorter than their leaves (except the upper 
es very short and stout, obsoletely bracted 
again expanded t 
sligh d to 5 mm. ve h 
half Eun obtusish. bbs 2 mm. 
the iod on. flat and thin, attached 1 mm. above 
long, Siue of ase. Thecæ muricate or papillose 
Style slender, sli; cao slender awn, which is about 4 mm. long. 
Oe shrub. T y exceeding the corolla, the stigma truncate. 
6,000 feet Sonar e w^ damp clearings, Sierra del Libano, 
. f 2. Ower r B d ” 
H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1964.) Bec E. 
E 
pparently the same collected by Holton at Bogota. 
Sophoclesia robusta 
nel : 
( d reticulate. Peduncles solitary m the ; 
nely st f their leaves, filiform, 
broad, ig 2n Calyx puberulent, urceolate, I. m. long 
es extremely short and broad. Corolla campanu- 
lyx, minutely 5-toothed, 
the te z h 
eth erect. Style slender, long-exserted. 
M. Bang, without 
n 
umber or locality: 
T iiopels télinióri 
r: 
hairy n ana the lower leaf-surface appressed-brown- 
below and lack-dotted. Branchlets stoutish, erect, blackish 
roughened with leaf-scars, above purplish, angled, 
like base, th ‘th a short, narrow petiole- 
tical with e blades 8 to 10 mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. broad, ellip- 
revolute hi slightly produced base and obtuse summit, entire, 
; thick, bright-green and much wrinkled above, brown 
