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Don (Cogn. 1. c. 876) proxima. — A 



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cit. 2202.) 



J. D. S. (Ex PI. 



Cephaelis glonierulata (§ Cephaelide,*: Muell. Arg. in Fl. 



Brasil.) — Dichotomous, glabrous: stipules solitary, triangu- 

 lar-truncate, apex fimbriate: leaves oval-lanceolate (4-5 x 1^—2 

 in.), acuminate, base acute, patent secondary nerves about 

 14 uniting in marginal arches: heads of bracteose glomerules 

 subsessile, semi-globose (9 lines high, 1 in. broad); bracts 

 coriaceous, pallid, margin virescent or violaceous, the 6-8 

 exterior oblate-roundish, of glomerules obovate passing into 

 shorter spatulate membranaceous conduplicate bractlets: calyx 

 scarious (1» line), two-thirds free, unequally subulate-toothed: 

 corolla white, half-exsert from bractlet, slender (6 lines), one- 

 fourth-lobed, upper half cano-pubescent within: anthers (2 

 lines) exceeding filaments: bi-lobed disk equalling ovary; drupe 

 ovoid (3 lines), sulcate, blue.— Shrub 3-4 ft. high with habit 

 and leaves of C. dichotoma Rudge and Psychotria Martiana 

 Muell. Arg., but differing from both by developed bractlets 

 of glomerules and of flowers. — Swampy woods on Rio Duke, 

 sea-level, Mch. 1889, J. D. S. (Ex PI. cit. 1637). 



Explanation of Plate I.- Fig. i, flowering branch. Fig. 2> head with all 

 but one ot the bracts removed. Fig. 3, glomerule. Fig. 4, exterior bract. Fig. 

 5, exterior bractlet Fig. 6, interior bractlet. Fig. 7, stipule. Fig. 8, flower. 

 Fig. 9, corolla of long-styled flower laid open. Fig. 10, vertical section of 

 short-styled flower w U h corolla removed. Fig 11, drupe. (Figs. 1 and 2 are 

 natural size: the others are variously magnified.) 



Lobelia laxiflora H. B. K., var. insiarnis. — Glabrous in 



every part: stem simple, stout; 3-4 ft. high: leaves densely 

 confert, linear-lanceolate (7x1 in.), sessile, glandular teeth 

 appressed: peduncles bractless, nearly equalling leaves: 

 flowers 2 in. long: calyx-segments one-fifth as long, linear, 

 twice exceeding tube: corolla carinately nerved; tube half as 

 broad as long, yellow varied with red; divisions of upper lip 

 red on both sides: lower lip plicate, half as broad as long, 

 yellow margined with red.— Mr. Hemsley refers to the type 

 a plant collected by Salvin in similar locality. The congested 

 ^arge leaves^ and flowers impart a distinct habit.— Slopes of 



J. D. S. (Ex 



CORDATA Lemaire, var. linearifolia. 



PI. cit. 21 7M.) 



Maci.kaxi; 



Leaves obscurely penninerved, above conspicuously reticu'la- 

 ted, linear-lanceolate (4-5 XA-| in.), regularly tapering from 



