92 NEw SPECIES oF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 
ish and rigid, 3 mm. long, the anthers exserted and partly 
covered by the converging ligules. 
“Twining to 6 feet. Rare in forest near Masinga, 250 to 
500 feet. Flowers November to December, the corolla pale 
greenish-yellow. Collected November 18." (Herbert H. Smith - 
No. 1644.) Also at Bonda, October 23. : 
` Species very near to Eggers No. 5568. 
Hemipogon (?) andinum. 
Leaves 3 Or 4-verticillate, 5 to 10 cm. long, acerose, sharply 
3-ribbed beneath and channelled above, acute, erect. Peduncles 
lateral 3 or 4 mm. long, stout, erect, angled, 1 to 3-flowered. 
Pedicels shorter than the peduncle, erect, stout, sharply angled, 
bracteolate the base. Flow mm. long, erect. Calyx 
parted nearly to the base, the lobes a third or a fourth 
len the corolla, ovate, acute, thickish. Corolla-tube 
Shorter than the limb, urceolate, inflated, obscurely angled, 
broader than long, the lobes erect, lance-linear, acute. 
2.5 to 4 cm. long, 6 to 8 mm. wide, stoutly lanceolate with some- 
‘lire contracted base and acuminate summit, brown, finely 
striate. 
“Santa Ana, Bolivia, 5,500 feet altitude, July 31, 1902.” 
(R. S. Williams, No. 1589.) No. 113, "From hillsides near 
Apolo, February 20”, is apparently the same, with somewhat 
shorter leaves and pods. 
I am very doubtful as to the generic affinity of this and the 
following species, but they appear more closely allied to this 
than to any other described genus. 
Hemipogon (?) Williamsii. 
abrous, the stems erect or ascending, 3 or 4 dm. high 
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Flowers about 5 mm. long, two-thirds as broad, yellowish-green, 
paige fleshy. Calyx parted nearly to the base, the lo 
Pasig acute. Crown adnate, to the corolla-tube, its margin 
Iree in the throat, forming a thickened ring, which is short and 
"regularly sinuately lobed. F ilament-tube shorter than the 
