126 New SPECIES OF SoutH AMERICAN PLANTS 
flowers. Calyx campanulate, 1.5 cm. long, divided nearly to 
the base, the lobes broadly ovate, acuminate. Corolla scarlet, 
densely strigose, 1.5 cm. long, mm. broad, infundibular, 
straight, not gibbous, slightly ventricose, the mouth slightly 
contracted, sub-equal, the lobes ovate, acute, about 3 mm. long. 
Disk on one side, thin, about 2 mm. long, 3-toothed. Stamens 
about as long as the corolla, but the filaments strongly curved 
and the anthers included, the filaments all connate at the base 
on one side, and. adherent to the base of the corolla, one pair 
of anthers coherent. Ovary pilose, ovoid, 3 mm. long, the 
style 12 mm. long, the stigma lightly 2-lobed. 
Miguel Bang, Bolivia, No. 853, distributed as “C. adscen- 
y" Ter Sie 
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Columnea grandifolia. 
Upper leaf-surfaces rather sparsely, the remainder densely 
long-strigose. Leaves sessile, 2 to 3 dm. long, 6 . broad, 
form lobes. Calyx 1.5 c ong, I cm. broad, campanulate, 
parted nearly to the base, the lobes sub-equal, lanceolate, long 
attenuate, pinnatifid with long, filiform, hirsute es, en- 
nerved on the back. Corolla nearl m r 
mit. Bases of filaments dilated, connate, adher- 
ent to the base of the corolla, the anthers coherent. Style 
very slender. 
"A shrub a meter high, at San Carlos, Mapiri, Bolivia, 700 
meters altitude, August 3, 1907.” (Otto Buchtien, No. 1972) 
Buchtien's 2245, from near Cochabamba, 750 M. alt., Jan- 
uary, 1909, is probably the same, but corollas are not present. 
Columnea (Systelostoma) latifolia. 
s and lower leaf-surfaces pubescent, the upper leaf- 
1.5 to 2.5 cm. long, broad, 
