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exceeding the stamens. Fruit (matute?) 2 cm. long and nearly 
as broad, obovoid, with rounded summit, apparently red. 
“A shrub to 6 feet in damp clearings, 6,000 feet, Sierra del 
Libano, January 20. Moderately common here but not ob- 
served elsewhere. Corolla white." (Herbert H. Smith, Col- 
ombia, No. 1181. Ex 
Bassovia calceolarioides. 
Glabrous, the stems flexuous, coarsely sulcate, the inter- 
nodes in my specimen 2 to 3 cm. long. Petioles 4 to 6 mm. long, 
stout. Blades 7 to 10 cm. long, 2 to 3.5 cm. broad, inequilateral, 
lanceolate to oblanceolate, the oblique base obtuse to sub-ro- 
tund, the summit abruptly acuminate and acute. Thickish, 
strongly falcate and connecting near the margin. Sma 
leaflets reflexed, mostly 2 or 3 together, to 10 mm. long, ovate 
X 
divided half way or more, the lobes ovate, 
Corolla 1 cm. long, broadly campanulate, lobed 
II84.) 
rm. Petioles about 
the pedicels about 
m. | and 
4 Or 5 mm. broad, with 10 strong green nerv ^ 
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truncate i ‘near teeth, shorter than the tube. Co 
egi pres the lobes 1 cm. long, lanceolate. 
the filaments very dias 
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the anther oblanceolate, wit ty 
à little exceeding the stamens. 
