New SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS 125 
leaves Spes unequal. ien 2 to 10 mm. long, purple, 
pilose, the blades 2 to 10 cm. long, I to 3 cm. broad, lance-ovate 
and sinuses, very thin, bright-green above, purplish beneath, 
especially the coarse veins, the secondaries about 8 on 
cn strongly ascending or sub-erect on the narrow side, little 
rved, connected by few tertiaries. Pedicels axillary, solitary, 
Ey slender, more than half as long as their eaves, purple, 
pilose. Calyx r cm. broad, the tube short, crateriform, the 
lobes ovate-acuminate but obt tusish, the midrib and a pair of 
faint nerves purple. Corolla rotate, nearly 2 cm. broad, the 
the lobe concave. Stamens shorter than the corolla-lobes, the 
filaments slender, the anthers at first coherent, later apparently 
separating. Style a little longer than the stamens, purple, 
the stigma small, concave. 
"Petals white. Rare on damp rocks, in glens and on ridges 
on the Sierra Onaca, 4,000 to 5,000 feet; August 22." (Her- 
bert H. Smith, No. 2506.) 
per stricta. 
r leaf-surface gan short- d otherwise seen 
Btitgose- sonnet Stems stout, strict, terete. Leave ae 
IO to 20 cm. long, 3 to 4. 4 cm. b road, oblanceolate, nearly eq 
lateral, abruptly short-pointed and acute, minute pré io 
late, thin, deep green above, silber acci eei inen 
2 cm. long, inequilaterally lanceolate, edes Flowe 
short-pedicelled. Calyx 1.5 cm. lon broad, infundi- 
bular, lobed nearly to the gr Hie et ; lightly unequal, 
Ee attenuate, s sharply serrate. Corolla 3 cm. long, 7 
wide, infundibular,. straight ei ly gbon at the P 
ot or slightly ventricose, the mouth equal. Disk small, 2- 
l Ovary long, tufted at tities soris Anthers and stigma 
obed. 
DEbHy exserted, the anthers very slightly or not at all coherent, 
mall. 
"Espirito Santa, near Cochabamba, Bolivia, 750 meters 
altitude, June 1909." (Otto Buchtien, No. 2209 
— Columnea pallida. 
E Densely ug Mess 
owered and leafy tow 
t to6c pe T broad Lactate à or oblanceolate, MEE 
inequilaterally acura at the 
e ute at he ag ie denticulate v hs aer 
ish-gray gr the venation inconspic 
Ovate with: EET summits, mostly about as long as the 
out, the stems stout, — 
be 
