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ent in pairs, pilose, tapering to the summit, nearly as long as 
the corolla-tube, the anthers very broad and flat, not coherent. 
Disk of two opposite broad truncate or sub-rounded scales a 
third of the length of the ovary, which is half as long as the 
calyx, obliquely ovoid, glabrous. Style neaily 1 cm. long, 
filiform, the stigma oblique, obscurely 2-lobed. 
“A shrub 3 to 4 feet high, with orange-red flowers, in damp 
and shady ground to 5,000 feet. Collected near Valparaiso, 
4,000 feet, March 21r." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 
1399.) 
Besleria tenuifolia. 
ounger portions and lower leaf-surfaces when young, 
puberulent. Stems weak and slender, leafy to the summit. 
very slender. Blades 6 to 18 cm. long, 2.5 to 8 cm. wide, in- 
equilaterally ovate and abruptly short-acuminate at both ends, 
obsoletely serrate, very thin, the venation slender, lightly 
prominent above, the midrib narrowly 3-sulcate on both sur- 
aces, the secondaries about 7 on each side, more or less de- 
current on the midrib. Peduncles axillary, short, unequal, 2 
conical, he calyx. 
longer than the Plated at the base and connate 
Summit of ovary contin- 
uous with the style, L s 
abruptly flexed near the summit. 
broad. es 
“A shrub to 4 feet, with orange-red flowers and red ruit, 
in low damp forest near the coast at San Diego, May 12. 
(Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 2672.) 
Gesneria onacaensis. 
Leaves, etc., shortly and min 
dd crowded at the ends 2 the pena 
and 5 to 7 cm. wide, inequilaterally la ; j 
o erpa Pom pseudo-petiole, and with wee tici 
mit and finely and unequally dentate margin, very jos aad 
green, the slender venation inconspicuous, the sec iem 
very slender, 16 to 20 on a side, strongly ascending, ta f 
* teu es 
utely strigose. Leaves irreg 
branchlets, 15 to 30 cm. long 
-oblong with the base 
