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widely spreading, sharply 5-angled, the internodes about 25 
cm. . Petioles very short, about as broad as long, the blades 
"Shrubby, 3 feet high. Open place by streams in the 
forest, 5 miles north-east of Bonda, about 150 feet, January 14. 
Flowers rosy." (Herbert H. Smith, Colombia, No. 1982.) 
Addisonia boliviana. 
tapering base and mucronulate su ] : 
teda “a margins strongly revolute, obscurely ore 
gradually reduced to erect bracts on the short ey sa 
g, the involucre about two-thirds of the eng - ) 
turbinate or narrowly campanulate, the outer scales successively 
shorter, all thick and rigid, lanceolate, acuminate and pube , 
sub-carinate, purplish a A the flowering stage, 
2 mm. 
and slightly dilated above the middle, the lobes 1.5 or 
ong, CRIME oblong, acutish. Stamens nearly Tul SA Daun 
corolla-tube, the anthers linear. Style divided — - Hee 
the branches long-exserted, recurved, moderately dila 
flattened upward. zd 
Specimen unique, collected by Miguel Bang in Bolivia, 
without number, locality or date. ES l 
Dr. Robinson has discussed the validity of the genus vun 
sonia, referring it to a section of Pigueria. While strongly 
