﻿544 Rusby : Plants collected in South America 



Buddleia andina Britton ex Rusby, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 4 : 

 222. Vic. La Paz, 11000 ft., April, 1885 (no. 2050). 



BueTdleia Montana Britton sp. nov. 



A tree, 3-5 m. high, the trunk 1.5-3 dm. m diameter, the 

 branches widely spreading, brittle, the branchlets numerous, stout- 

 ish, densely black- and yellow-scurfy-tomentose, as are the lower 

 leaf-surfaces and the inflorescence : petioles very short and broad, 

 the blades 2—8 cm. long, 7-1 5 mm. broad, oblong, somewhat obtuse, 

 thick, the upper surface dark and shining, strongly and finely reticu- 

 late, the midrib impressed and yellow-tomentose, the 20 or more 

 pairs of secondaries and the veinlets prominent, very slender: flowers 

 somewhat crowded in the panicles, which are short -ped uncled, 2-4 

 cm. long and one-half as broad : flowers mostly very short -pedicelled ; 

 bracts subulate, mostly shorter than the calyx : calyx densely yel- 

 low-tomentose, campanulate, 3 or 4 mm. long and broad, 4-lobed, 

 the lobes triangular-ovate, obtuse, one-half as long as the tube : 

 corolla dark-red-purple, thick, tomentose without, the tube cam- 

 panulate, about as long as the calyx, the lobes of about the same 

 length, rounded, strongly recurved : anthers subsessile in the 

 sinuses, slightly exserted, elliptical-oval, 1.5 mm. long: ovary 

 tomentose, sub-globular, 1.5 mm. in diameter : style blackish, stout, 



together with the large stigma 1 . 5 mm. long : mature fruit not 

 seen. 



Sorata, 13000 ft., Feb., 1886 (no. 2462). Also seen growing 

 in the city park of La Paz, there said to be highly poisonous. 

 The same as Mandon's no. 346 and Bang's no. 1838. 



Desfontainia spinosa R. & P. Fl. Per., 2 : 47. //. 186. Un- 

 duavi, 12000 ft, Oct., 1885 (no. 1950). A beautiful dense shrub, 

 6-8 ft. high, growing in sphagnum bogs on mountain tops, the 

 flowers of a rich crimson. 



Desfontainia parvifolia D. Don, Edinb. Phil. Jour. (July- 

 Sept., 183 1), 275. Mapiri, 10000 ft., April, 1886 (no. 1951). 

 Grows like the last. 



GENTIANACEAE. 



Leiphaimos aphylla (Jacq.) Gilg ; Eng. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzen- 

 fam. 4 2 : 104 {Gcntiana aphylla Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 17 ; Select. 

 Am. 87. Voyria aphylla Pers. Syn. 1 : 284). Mapiri, 2500 ft. 

 May, 1886 (no. 857). Grows in rich mould, in dense forests. 



