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attached at base: stigma convex, exumbonate: immature fol- 

 licle fusiform, tapering to long stipe. — N. neriifolia Benth. 

 et Hook., the nearest congener, is a herbaceous perennial 

 with linear-oblong leaves rounded and glandular at base, cili- 



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ate corolla, adnate coronal processes cymbiform, stigma um- 

 bonate. — Rocky islands in Rio Rubelcruz, Dept. Alta 

 Verapaz, alt. 2,500 ft., May 1887, v. Turckheim, (Ex PI. 

 cit. 1, 25i);same locality, Apr. 1889, J. D. S., (Ex Pl.cit. 1,742). 



Solenophora erubescent — Glabrous, rubescent, tumid 



nodes marked by an interpetiolar line: leaves oval to elliptical- 

 oblong, the larger in the pairs 2-3 £ in. long, the other a third 

 smaller, apex acutish, base inequilateral, coriaceous, rubes- 

 cent beneath, indistinctly sinuate-serrate, petioles from \ to 

 I as long as leaves: flowers single on shorter axillary peduncles 

 bibracteate in middle, or few in trichotomous cymes chiefly 

 terminal: calyx coriaceous, 5-costate, rubro-maculate, obconic 

 (9 L), in flower \- and in fruit A-adnate, lobes ovate (2 1.): 

 corolla infundibuliform, twice exceeding calyx, yellow, §-tubu- 

 lar, limb expanding to 8 lines broad; lobes suberect, trans- 

 versely oblong (2x5 1.), the interior the greatest and 

 pectinate-crenate: style 2-lobulate: fruit baccate, oval (5 L), 

 crimson, crowned with persistent 2-lobed gland. — Habit pe- 

 culiar by glabrity and small leaves. — Rocks of a waterfall, 

 Pansamahi, alt. 3,800 ft., May 1887, v. Turckheim, (Ex PL 

 Cit. 731); same locality, Apr. 1889, J. D. S., (Ex PL cit. 1,684). 



Besleria Pansamahuia (Podobisleria Benth. et Hook.;.— 



Epiphytal repent, ligneous branches ascending a foot or two, 

 pubescent: leaves shortly petiolate, unequal in the pairs, 

 obovate-oblong (5-6 in.), the lower smaller and obovate- 

 rhomboid, acuminate, base obliquely acute, serrulate above 

 middle, under surface pale-pubescent: peduncles single from 

 one or both uppermost axils, half as long as leaves, I -flowered: 



calyx-segments nearly distinct, ovate (4-5 L)i £ recn < P luri ~ 

 nerved, the 2 exterior narrower: corolla from narrow saccate- 



base horizontally supine, ventricosely calceiform, 14 lines 

 Jong, less than half as high, crimson; throat facing upward 

 midway between base and ventral apex, constricted (3 L); 

 divisions of small limb roundish, unequal, erect: genitals in- 

 cluded: cells of anthers forming nearly a circle, connective 

 orbicular: disk annular: style short (3 L). i-bilobed.— Related 

 to />\ Onogastra Hanst. by the corolla curiously resembling 

 the lip of Cypripedium, but distinct by inflorescence, calyx, 



