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ovate. Petioles about 2.5 cm. long, the blades (only the upper 
seen) 20 to 25 cm. long, 8 to 10 cm. wide, oblong, short-acumi- 
nate and acute at both ends, entire, thin, deep-green, the very 
slender venation prominent beneath, the secondaries about 15 
bracts, the bractlets sparse, subulate, very small. Pedicels 
filiform, 6 mm. or less long. Calyx-tube ixi orae longer DAN 
i I cm. long, 
small. amens inserted about the middle of the corolla, the 
filaments glabrous, about half the length of the linear anthers, 
which are 2 mm. long, the style very slightly exceeding them. 
“A large bush with smooth, livid-green branches. San 
Buena Ventura, 1,400 feet, November 3, 1901." (R. S. Will- 
iams, Bolivia, No. 663.) 
The same collected by Pearce in Ecuador. 
Rudgea longirostris. 
and somewhat abruptly acuminate an 
venation prominent 
regularly attenuate from the base, the 
a. Pedicels slender, some as, long or longer than ue 
flowers. 2.5 mm. long, the turbinate-tube less c: : 
the length, the limb cupulate, broad, the margin very $ a y 
too ( tube 5 mm. long, cylin- 
obscurely ribbed, the > 
lobes about half the length of the tube, ovate, acy s ical d 
strongly horned on the back near the quie ‘grea 
serted into the strongly pilose tube of the ay a, P shorts 
Short, the tips of the anthers exserted. Style exserted, 
2-fid, the branches recurved. ; 
“ A small slender tree or shrub, 6 to 15 feet high, with vic 
ish-yellow flowers and blue berries. Moderately pem “op 
amp mountain forest. Sierra del Libano, about 6, i 
; : .) No. 
January 10." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1819.) 
