﻿Rusby : Plants collected in South America 543 



I or 2 cm. long, the upper somewhat irregularly opposite, the 

 stipular lines obscure, their blades 5-15 cm. long by 2-8 cm. 

 broad, contracted abruptly into petioles 1-2 cm. long, varying 

 from oblong or oval to ovate or obovate, very short-pointed, ob- 

 tuse to acutish, inaequilateral, entire, thin, bright-green, underneath 

 pale and sparingly short-strigose, above more sparsely so, but the 

 hairs a little longer, the midrib and 8-10 irregularly placed pairs 

 of secondaries prominent underneath : spikes solitary or in pairs at 

 the ends of the branches, very short-peduncled, 1—2 dm. long, 

 very slender, strictly secund, coarsely angled, gray, strigose, the 

 fruits 2 or 3 mm. apart : calyx-tube nearly obsolete, the lobes 

 about 2 mm long, attenuate from a short broad base, erect or 

 more or less spreading in fruit : corolla strongly 5-angled, yellow- 

 ish, the angles green, strigose, 3-4 mm. long, the tube about three 

 fifths of the length, its upper half contracted, the lobes about 1 mm. 

 long, rounded, the anthers nearly 1 mm. long, inserted at the 

 contracted portion, their position marked externally by 5 project- 

 ing pockets between the angles : ovary 1 mm. high, slightly 

 broader, the stigma sessile, rounded: capsule strongly compressed, 

 about 3 mm. broad, and half as long, yellowish-brown, minutely 

 tuberculate. 



Reis, 1500 feet, June, 1886 (no. 143 1). The same as Bang's 

 no. 2507 and near to Kalbreyer's no. 1658, from Antioquia. 



Spigelia sessilifolia sp. nov. 



Rhizome short : root much branched : stem erect, slender, 

 sparsely branched above, the branches slender, erect, both stem and 

 branches terete, or the latter minutely angled above, green, gla- 

 brous : leaves ternately whorled, sessile, connected by stipular 

 membranes, 1-1,5 dm - lon g> 2 -5""5 cm - broad, ovate, the base 

 abruptly contracted, the apex long-acuminate and acute, thin, 

 bright-green, very sparsely and very shortly strigose above, 

 glabrous underneath, the midrib and 5 or 6 pairs of second- 

 aries weak, yellowish, not prominent: spikes terminal, appar- 

 ently always solitary, long-peduncled, very slender, strictly secund, 

 2 or 3 dm. long, the fruits 4 or 5 mm. apart: flowers sub- 

 sessile: the calyx 1.5 mm. broad, the lobes 2 or 3 mm. long, 

 strictly erect, attenuate from a broad base: corolla 1.5 cm. long, 

 infundibular, 5 mm. broad at the top, the lobes ovate, obtuse, 

 2 or 3 mm. long : anthers 1 mm. long, inserted about the junction 

 of the middle and upper thirds : style thick, apparently succulent, 

 I cm. long, white-pilose upward : mature fruit not seen. 



Mapiri, 5000 ft, April, 1886 (no. 1429). 



