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pollinia slenderly lance-ovoid. Pod 6 cm. long, narrowly lance- 
olate and long acuminate and acute, brown, nerved. Seeds 
comose. 
Tumupasa, Bolivia, 2,400 feet altitude, January 12, 1902. 
(R. S. Williams, No. 488 
Irmischia angustifolia. 
Young stems, etc., sparsely puberulent. Stems very slender, 
the internodes nearly twice the length of their poss. Petioles. 
about 5 mm. long, very slender. Blades 2 to 3.5 cm. long, 5 
O IO mm. OE lanceolate with rounded base and | regulary 
acuminate and pungent summit, thin, deep-green, the venation 
prominent beneath, the secondaries about 6 on a side, SHOE 
to the base, the lobes ovate, obtuse. Corolla nearly twice the 
length of the calyx, the lobes oblong, obtuse, coarsely pilose on 
the face, recurved. Crown adnate to the corolla only, the 5 
ligules alternate with the lobes, satus lunt. Stamen- 
tube slightly elongated, a little longer than the anthers. 
“Twining to 10 feet, in forest, in ravines. Jiracasaca, 
2,500 feet, September 28. Var of 1676 (?)” (Herbert H. Smith, 
Colombia, No. 1677). 
Species very close to 1676, but distinct in every doli char- 
acter. 
Irmischia aristata. 
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slender, erete, striate. " Petio les 1 I.5 cm . long, very slender. 
Blades 3 to 5 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. wide, ovate with rounded 
base M regularly acuminate and cuspidate summit, gne 
deep-green, the very slen nder venation slightly prominent, the 
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the remaining venation obscure. Peduncles filiform, half as. 
oad Node Rico — Pedicels densely, umbellate, fili- 
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lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla parted nearly to the mers 
the lobes oblong, obtuse, obscurely pilose on the face, erect, 
the summits at length recurved. Ligules of the crown attached 
to the corolla and nearly equaling it, distant from the aan 
very narrow, and very acute. Stamen-tube more than halt as. 
